Sorry, but the way I see it, the opposite of oppression is education :-) The idea of keeping information from the public as a method of making the world a more free place is self-contradictory.
- DEAN Andrew A 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 > > - > Bantown is unprecedented as the first catalyst of the revolution to a > have a tollfree customer feedback number. Questions? Comments? Call us > at 888-LOL-WHAT. Chat us up at irc.rizon.net <http://irc.rizon.net> > #bantown. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
