On 1/5/06, Andrew A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a > comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. > When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to > give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from > responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again." > –Edward Gibbon > > We stand at the cusp of a renaissance. A freely communicating humanity is > closer to unity and harmony than ever before. Never before have ideas and > knowledge traveled so rapidly. If not for the Internet, little would be > known about the atrocities our government attempts to commit in secret. All > the American people would be able to read is the party line off of cable > television. With a morally bankrupt media, the Internet is the key to any > sort of democratic resistance. Thanks to the Internet, we may view photos of > wounded Iraqis and internal government memos. The priveledge of viewing and > knowing these things is easily lost. > > We approach the final hour of the free Internet. As I write, forces within > our society are beginning to impose control and restriction onto it. If > these forces are not turned back, I know that within a decade that the free > world's Internet will be a mix of cable television and the supressed Chinese > Internet. As a beggar, I present myself with the humility that my lowly > position deserves. My plea is simple: stop publishing your vulnerabilities. > We will need them. > > I want my children and their children to have access to truth. Not just my > truth, or my government's truth, but all the other truths in the world as > well. > > I want us to be able to communicate easily and safely about the actions of > our government. > > I want the merits of the Internet to progress in form and finesse until we > are ready to cast the criminals, thugs, and mammonites out power all over > the world. > > A secure Internet is an Internet without freedom, without privacy, and > without anonymity. The nature of security is control. Were we to be governed > by the just, I would worry little about this situation. Sadly, the political > systems of the first world have been perverted by an evil which ensures that > none who do not share its nature hold office. > > Submitting yourself to a secure system requires that we have a reasonable > amount of trust for the system's keepers. Does your current government have > the ideal qualities needed to control the flow of information? We should be > keeping everything which may allow us to circumvent the system guarded > closely. The subversion of trusted resources will eventually be the only way > to keep forbidden information in mass circulation and the primary means of > resistance against tyranny. > > "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude > greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We > seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that > feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget > that ye were our countrymen." –Samuel Adams > > If you place any value on freedom, then stop working for the oligarchy and > start working against it. I'll admit, subversion does not pay well. It isn't > quite as cushy as the six figure job I passed up, but it has a great > benefit: I can sleep at night. I'm not aiding a set of corporations and a > government which used unethical means to corner vast amounts of wealth and > proceeded to flagrantly abuse their power. The reward for doing what is > right is better than any earthly reward that I could receive. > > "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to > perpetuate it." –Martin Luther King, Jr. > > To the employees of the biggest security firms of the world, all American, > I want you to stop and look at the government of your country. You have an > administration which has gone and invaded countries on a whim, which > authorizes torture that is conducted in secret, which has less transparency > than any government in recent memory, that places extreme emphasis on > executive power... the countless historical comparisons that could apply > here are obvious so I need not make them. This administration is a perfect > example of the type of systemic corruption that is inevitable due to the > very nature of power, of control, and yes, of security. People like this > will soon be deciding the fate of the Internet. > > When engaging in reasonable political discourse is not allowed you are > going to be wanting to take your freedom back. > > It is time for the last stand. Our mission is to retain the right to freely > think, code, and communicate. Stop helping the industry, stop publishing > your 0day, start working to make a real difference. Save your arms for the > time very soon in which we will need them. Have faith in your self and your > God and good works will come. We need not be slaves to a master that > despises us! > > Non-disclosure is a heroic endeavor. Be a hero. > > Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, > intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it > unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of > self-help... –Gandhi > > -
And you may ask yourself What is that beautiful house? And you may ask yourself Where does that highway go? And you may ask yourself Am I right? ...am I wrong? And you may tell yourself My god!...what have I done? –David Byrne
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