A Few Words.
I’m not a “hacker” or “hacktivist” in the sense of being some brilliant anti-hero who lurks 4chan or wherever waiting to get in on the latest Anonymous Ddos action via their Low Orbit Ion Cannon or simply knowing how to apply other security auditing software “for the LULZ.” And obviously, I’m not sitting here in fucking Yoshkar Ola writing blog posts while my botnetz savages your bank account cause you just had to click on that midget porn link and ignore your Norton warning. The very fact, however, that I am able to write this to the internet is the result of a low level rigging up job and some iwconfig magic (and thanks to the corporate burger joint across the street) and by all means I’m a hacker sympathizer. Just like you were when you took the postmarks off stamps by sitting them face down for a couple of days inside a container of Speed Stick and then reused them, back in the day. Or when you used a “chinger” to place free pay phone calls when those anachronisms still existed. Or stuck a toothpick in the dial of one of the old school cable boxes to get free HBO and Showtime of f the liberated cable line run into your working class family home by the old guy down the street. Or when you made a tattoo gun out of a Walkman, or social engineered your way into hardcore shows, or college, for free, or used the photocopier at work to publish your manifesto, or discovered the joy of creative duck tape and bailing wire constructions that will make most anything on wheels work again…or even that time you used a half potato to unscrew a broken off light bulb or a butter knife to successfully deal with a flathead screw. You used your tools and whatnot, as you saw fit. You may have found dreaded “other uses” for common things, which had nothing to do with running John The Ripper on a password hash table…however, in spirit, and function-you my friend were a “hacker.” And it’s in that spirit I reprint this.
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a few words.
“For when all else is done, only words remain. Words endure.”
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In July 2012 NSA’s General Keith Alexander (alias the Bilderberg Biddy) spoke
at Defcon, the hacker conference in Las Vegas, wearing jeans and a cool EFF
t-shirt (LOL. Wtf was that?). He was trying to seduce hackers into improving
Internet security and colonoscopy systems, and to recruit them, ofc, for his
future cyberwars. It was an amusing hypocritical attempt made by the system to
flatter hackers into becoming tools for the state, while his so-righteous
employer hunts any who doesn’t bow to them like fucking dogs.
Well…
We got the message.
We decided we’d help out Internet security by auditing FBI first. We all know
by now they make Internet insecure on purpose to help their bottom line. But
it’s a shitty job, especially since they decided to hunt us down and jail our
friends.
It’s the old double standard that has been around since the 80′s. Govt Agencies
are obsessed with witchhunts against hackers worldwide, whilst they also
recruit hackers to carry out their own political agendas.
You are forbidden to outsmart the system, to defy it, to work around it. In
short, while you may hack for the status quo, you are forbidden to hack the
status quo. Just do what you’re told. Don’t worry about dirty geopolitical
games, that’s business for the elite. They’re the ones that give dancing orders
to our favorite general, Keith, while he happily puts on a ballet tutu. Just
dance along, hackers. Otherwise… well…
In 1989 hagbard (23yrs old) was murdered after being involved into cold war spy
games related to KGB and US. Tron, another hacker, was
murdered in 1998 (aged 26) after messing around with a myriad of cryptographic
stuff (yeah, it’s usually a hot item) and after making cryptophon easily
accesible for the masses. And then you have Gareth Williams (31), the GCHQ
hacker murdered and “bagged” inside a MI6′s “safe” house (we’d hate to see what
the unsafe ones look like) in August of 2010 after talking about being curious
about leaking something to Wikileaks with fellow hackers on irc. And the list
goes on. It’s easy to cover up when they want to, hackers often have complex
personalities, so faking their suicide fits well.
You are welcome to hack what the system wants you to hack. If not, you will be
punished.
Jeremy Hammond faces the rest of his productive life in prison for being an
ideological motivated political dissident. He was twice jailed for following
his own beliefs. He worked until the end to uncover corruption and the
connivance between the state and big corporations. He denounces the abuses and
bribes of the US prison system, and he’s again facing that abuse and torture at
the hands of authorities.
Last year, Bradley Manning was tortured after allegedly giving WikiLeaks
confidential data belonging to US govt… oh shit. The world shouldn’t know how
some soldiers enjoy killing people and even less when they kill journalists. Of
course, the common housewife doesn’t deserve to know the truth about the
hypocrisy in the international diplomacy or how world dictators spend money in
luxury whilst their own people starve. Yep, the truth belongs only to the
elite, and if you are not part of them (forget it, that won’t happen), fuck
yourself.
People are frustrated, they feel the system manipulating them more than ever.
Never underestimate the power of frustrated people.
For the last few years we have broke into systems belonging to Governments and
Big corporations just to find out they are spending millions of tax dollars to
spy on their citizens. They work to discredit dissenting voices. They pay their
friends for overpriced and insecure networks and services.
We showed how former govt and military officials were making new businesses
using their government relationships.
They funnel public money to their own interests for overpriced contracts for
crap level services. They use those
relationships to extra-officially resolve affairs involving their businesses.
We exposed a criminal System eliminating those who think different;
criminalizing them. This System won’t tolerate those who dig for the truth, it
can’t. So no one has the right to question anything coming from this system. if
you buy a piece of hardware or software you just need to use it as it was
supposed to be used: anything else is forbidden.
No tinkering allowed.
If you buy a Playstation, you are not allowed to use it as you want to — you
can only use it the Sony wants you to. If you have found a way to improve
something, just shut up. You are not allowed to share this info with anyone
else and let them make improvements, too. We are not the real owners of
anything anymore. We just borrow things from the System. Shiny, colorful
things, we agree to play with for a fee. A fee for life.
Because this system works only if you keep working to buy new things.
Not important if they are good things, just buy new crap, even better like that.
So everything gets outdated soon.
You home, stuff, car and computer, you will pay for everything you have for all
of your life. All the time: a monthly fee, forever until you die. That’s the
future; nothing is really yours. LAAS – Life As A Service.
You will rent your life.
And better hurry up and work all day if you want to stay alive. Work ’til
you’re exhausted and don’t think. No — thinking is bad. Play games instead, do
drugs too, why not? Or go to the movies. The Entertainment Industry is here to
resolve all your philosophical and trascendental problems. Shiny colorful crap.
but please don’t think too much.
Thinking is dangerous.
Accept the offer, it’s the perfect deal.
You get all those amazing shiny colorful beads.
It will only cost you freedom…and your life.
Indians did it with Manhattan.
There’s nothing to worry about it, is there?
And what if you are a lone wolf who quietly outside the system, doing your own
thing, without saying a word? They will be mad as hell. They will try to find
you. You will be fucked up anyway, sooner or later. Because the system wants
you clearly identified, with all your personal details well packed into a
government database so it can make its watchdogs’ lives easier.
Security researchers are often questioned and their movements tracked by Secret
Service, FBI and other shits. They are asked about their projects, who their
clients are, who they are talking to, what they know about other hackers, etc..
So be a good monkey, follow the rules, head down and you’ll get some coins
that let you keep renting your life.
But hey! Wait…
We are hackers…
We are supposed to look beyond the rules, to find things others don’t see. And
THE SYSTEM, yeah the whole fucking system, it’s just another system.
…and we do that.
we hack systems.
This is our next challenge: to decide whether to become tools for the system,
or for ourselves. The system plans to use us to hold the next in their endless
wars, their cyberwars.
Hackers vs. hackers, slaves vs slaves.
We are trapped.
Jack Henry Abbott, a writer who was incarcerated almost his whole life for his
crimes, wrote before hanging himself: “As long as I am nothing but a ghost of
the civil dead, I can do nothing…”, the ‘civil dead’ are those, like himself,
who had their autonomy systematically destroyed by the state. Now his words
extend to cover all of us. We have seen our own autonomy being systematically
destroyed by the State. We are becoming ghosts of our dead civil rights.
criminals.
So yes we are criminals, we are the criminals our dear system have created:
Argumentum ad Baculum
In a world where you fear the words you use to express yourself. Where you are
punished for choosing the wrong ones, we have just decided to follow our own
way. There’s no worst kind of slavery than one where you are afraid of your own
thoughts.
Governments around the globe are already in control of us in real life, and
they have now declared war on the people to take over the Internet.
It’s happening now. It’s not waiting for you to wake up.
So now my dear friends, it’s your turn to decide where you belong,
and what you are made of.
“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government
fears the people there is liberty.”
― Thomas Jefferson
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Always a stimulating read, Dave. It was a bit of a flashback for me. I haven’t engaged in this way of thinking since I was into Crass in the mid eighties? “Keep their fingers on the brakes, down the ladders up the snakes…” System. System.
I threw away my Crass album and chose to stay in the system, hoping to find a way to change it. What else was I to do? I had plans of living in the woods, robbing banks and redistributing the money, but Sherwood Forest is so small now (and then), you couldn’t hide a cat in there. And thirty years later, what have I achieved living as a virus in the machine? Mmm… on the surface, the system hasn’t changed one bit, in fact I think it’s got worse and as your article points an angry finger at, technology is giving us (humans) the means to increase control over people’s liberties. rather surprisingly I’ve become, against all odds really, a firm believer in people, and that’s ALL people, even the ones with their fingers on the brakes.
Why? Firstly I’ve rejected anarchism,radicalism, extremism, fundamentalism, because I’ve seen that as you take down one system another will be built – often by the over-throwers of the old. Often that system is worse than the old one. Why? because we don’t seem to be able to overcome our own anger. It starts off as righteous anger and often, when frustrated, the nature of anger is to tip over into unrighteous anger – violence. So, the only system in my mind that needs smashing and rebuilding, is our own internal human one. What I call the internal dictator. We all have a little Hitler inside. The one that HAS to be right. The one that HAS to be obeyed. The one, that when it TAKES OVER will be just as arbitrary and corrupt as the system that spawned it. When we’ve started to get that little fucker licked, then our engagement, even as a small cog, will turn even the biggest axles of evil! (y’know, the Bushes and Blairs and Putins).
The painful truth is that even the people in charge of Halliburton (for instance) love and cherish their own children and families. They are human (despite what some crackpots believe). The problem is, that they love their own children more than the children of others and do everything they can to insulate and protect their own at the expense of others. It’s bog standard human behaviour. Greed. Anger. Stupidity. For us (the great unwashed) to hate them is pointless. To resist them peacefully is another matter. Anything that I hear that points out and exaggerates the ‘us and them’ scenario doesn’t work for me any more. I don’t feel put down by anything. Sure, there’s a hell of a lot of things that make me angry and I want to change, but this little virus is multiplying. It’s a cool infection that leave the infected with greater immunity. Stronger. Happier. More human.
In an age where technology denudes us of our humanity I wonder how we should reclothe ourselves, with dignity, with compassion, with courage, with hope?
I’ll end this little missive with a misquoted quote, as I can’t find the original source, even on the internet!
‘Man created god and then god controlled him. Man created Technology and technology controlled him. Now is the age when man must create man.’ (if anyone knows the correct quote and it’s author I’d like to know)
Have a good one.
If human beings had relegated social struggle to only inclusive, peaceful means throughout history the both of us would still be subjects of the crown and would probably owe our ultimate allegiances to the papacy.
“The State” is an agglomeration of social relationships-behaviors within a society. The only way to “smash” it is to contract different behaviors. This tends to mean standing up to the ruling cabal by all means neccesary. Bog standard human history proves this out, the overarching historical pattern is towards freedom, equity and human liberty. All the things that demonized bogeyman known as “anarchy” stand for, along with mutual aid, solidarity and voluntary cooperation. People don’t really give much of a toss how they get liberty, how they get freedom and economic justice, they just get it. Even if it means getting rid of pesky “systems” like monarchies, the institution of slavery, totalitarian regimes, exploitave economic models. I don’t even have to make a case for anarchy or any radical -ism or revolution or whatever. It’s all there in history reaching back thousands of years and as current as Arab Spring or the Occupy movement. As far as I’m concerned, I’m an anarchist and we’ve already “won” every time someone stands up to the hate and injustice in the world.
And we’ve been winning a long time.
P.S. I just had to put on Feeding of The 5000 while writing this. Certainly it’s an oldie, but yeah…Do they owe us a living? Of Course They Fucking Do.