For Aaron

When I was sixteen, I knew I'd go to jail
 Cause I wrote my first program for hacking into mail
 Didn't even use it, no amount of malice
 I was learning how to code, it was all about the challenge
 Up until that point, I was trying to find a balance
 Parents fully hoping I'd been chosen for a talent
 Life feeling blurry, but no one ever noticed
 I was always wide-eyed but couldn't ever focus
 And it was at that moment, awoken to this dream
 Face all aglow with my code up on the screen
 In the same vein ashamed that this was all illegal
 Just the letter of the law cause my spirit wasn't evil
 Things sharpened up, at last I had my vision
 But IT security wasn't even a position
 Blind to decision, I didn't have a say
 Finally find what I'm given, I can't let it get away
 If I weren't a hacker, I would feel afraid
 From the way that the media has put them on display
 Regardless of the matter, that's what people say
 But wait I am a hacker, sorta feel betrayed
 Yeah an aloof kid, always said my two bits
 Living for this learning from the joy and the amusement
 Security's a mindset, and though it's been eluded
 We like to find a problem, solve it and improve it
 The only part that's foolish, is the asymmetric recourse
 Like put ourselves through enormous fights and got a divorce
 Let it go, and now we're out here drowning
 Desperately reaching just to pull ourselves out and
 Defenseless, feeling marked and being counted
 We're just tinkerers, makers, outnumbered and surrounded
 I can't speak for everyone, but feel it's safe to say
 That never should a researcher be treated in this way
 2010, the beginning of the end
 I can feel my heart drop, don't let it go again
 From the hand that was dealt, you've gotta play your cards
 How far would you take it? Don't take it too hard
 On January 11th, 2013
 We lost one of the brightest minds that ever dared to dream
 To be honest, I'm so angered and disturbed
 Victim of a system, but you lived by your word
 Betrayed by an act whose billings aren't that clear
 And gets more outdated as we age another year
 The world lost a man who defended open speech
 Then suffered at the hands of prosecution overreach
 Before we lose another, there's time to stop the bleeding
 Please, can we finally get the changes we've been needing
 So many questions caused the statement we're declaring
 We had to tell the world, this one is for Aaron