A very very good piece.. Worth the read. M. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 2:49 AM To: ip Subject: [IP] The Blast Shack a pice by Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks
A long piece by Bruce Sterling <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling> . Some what rambling but worth reading (or at least skimming ) djf http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/ The <http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/> Blast Shack 22 December 2010 We asked Bruce <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling> Sterling (who spoke <http://www.webstock.org.nz/talks/speakers/bruce-sterling/short-glorious-lif e-web-20-and-what-comes-afterwar/> at Webstock '09) for his take on Wikileaks. The Wikileaks Cablegate scandal is the most exciting and interesting hacker scandal ever. I rather commonly write about such things, and I'm surrounded by online acquaintances who take a burning interest in every little jot and tittle of this ongoing saga. So it's going to take me a while to explain why this highly newsworthy event fills me with such a chilly, deadening sense of Edgar Allen Poe melancholia. But it sure does. Part of this dull, icy feeling, I think, must be the agonizing slowness with which this has happened. At last - at long last - the homemade nitroglycerin in the old cypherpunks blast shack has gone off. Those "cypherpunks," of all people. Way back in 1992, a brainy American hacker called Timothy C. May made up a sci-fi tinged idea that he called "The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto." This exciting screed - I read it at the time, and boy was it ever cool - was all about anonymity, and encryption, and the Internet, and all about how wacky data-obsessed subversives could get up to all kinds of globalized mischief without any fear of repercussion from the blinkered authorities. If you were of a certain technoculture bent in the early 1990s, you had to love a thing like that. Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/125975-1ee5912c> | Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=125975&id_secret=125975-23791a65> Your Subscription | Unsubscribe <https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=125975&id_secret=125975-8f27 1c78&post_id=20101223054943:5A74AC94-0E82-11E0-BF01-D29B39C8F9F0> Now <http://www.listbox.com> !DSPAM:2676,4d133812308681755214018!
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