Freedom and freedom for a society, in a modern information age, relies on the individuals that make up that society having control of that information. Any instance where they cede that control en masse is a structural threat to that freedom. The reasons are mostly irrelevant, because we can argue that people know what they are doing, or that they were manipulated into that position, but it doesn't matter, the fact is that they are giving up their informational control to a third party who then owns it.
People need to start taking control of their information, and hackers like us need to stop perpetuating the mantra that privacy is dead and it's too late. I could very easily imagine infrastructures setup to protect peoples control of their own information, but it tend to not be the most business friendly, or government friendly.
Since when did hackers become so beholden to business interests? Lopht/codc warned everyone, but nobody listened, and then all the old schoolers got older and started chasing money, I mean mudge was working at darpa (it seems he is trying to do good things, but from inside the system). It's time to find that counter-business, pro-freedom resistence strain of hacking again and make it bigger.
Also, there is a reason in-q-tel, the cia's venture capitol arm, invested in facebook and google at the first stages...
Decentralized gplv3 software is the place to start. I'm not hopeles though, I think people vastly underestimate the weakness of systems like reddit, facebook, etc. The long arc of the universe tends towards justice, and they will collapse under their own dystopias.
Freedom is the real sustainable ecosystem. Individual freedom. Under individual freedom, the intellectual freedom to come up with novel solutions and apply them in novel ways is exponentially more likely than under some 1984 surveillance security engine. Freedom is therefore the strongest weapon in the fight against evil and in the fight for survival.
> The long arc of the universe tends towards justice ?
Is there any philosophical view point which thinks so? But according to natural science doesn't universe tends to entropy (granted entropy doesn't translate directly to lack of justice but still..)?
> Decentralized gplv3 software is the place to start
What course do you recommend to promote GPL adoption to tip the balance towards it? .. should people refuse to release closed source software in corporations?
Personally I would love to live in utopia where all code is free, cooperation trumping competition ..
Freedom and freedom for a society, in a modern information age, relies on the individuals that make up that society having control of that information. Any instance where they cede that control en masse is a structural threat to that freedom. The reasons are mostly irrelevant, because we can argue that people know what they are doing, or that they were manipulated into that position, but it doesn't matter, the fact is that they are giving up their informational control to a third party who then owns it.
People need to start taking control of their information, and hackers like us need to stop perpetuating the mantra that privacy is dead and it's too late. I could very easily imagine infrastructures setup to protect peoples control of their own information, but it tend to not be the most business friendly, or government friendly.
Since when did hackers become so beholden to business interests? Lopht/codc warned everyone, but nobody listened, and then all the old schoolers got older and started chasing money, I mean mudge was working at darpa (it seems he is trying to do good things, but from inside the system). It's time to find that counter-business, pro-freedom resistence strain of hacking again and make it bigger.
Also, there is a reason in-q-tel, the cia's venture capitol arm, invested in facebook and google at the first stages...
Decentralized gplv3 software is the place to start. I'm not hopeles though, I think people vastly underestimate the weakness of systems like reddit, facebook, etc. The long arc of the universe tends towards justice, and they will collapse under their own dystopias.
Freedom is the real sustainable ecosystem. Individual freedom. Under individual freedom, the intellectual freedom to come up with novel solutions and apply them in novel ways is exponentially more likely than under some 1984 surveillance security engine. Freedom is therefore the strongest weapon in the fight against evil and in the fight for survival.