Showing posts with label wikileaks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wikileaks. Show all posts
Friday, July 1, 2011
The Rise of the New Global Hacktivists ...
SAN FRANCISCO—When the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s John Perry Barlow tweeted last December, “The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops,” many in the mainstream media rolled their eyes and dismissed his words as hacker hyperbole.
But the events of the past few days, in which the hacktivst “group” Anonymous launched a major campaign called Operation Anti-Security, show that many more Julian Assanges are indeed waiting in the wings—ready, willing and able to continue what the embattled WikiLeaks founder started when he released a trove of classified State Department cables on the Internet last year. And governments and corporations will find these leakers far more difficult than Assange to capture or control.
The first new batch of classified documents leaked last Thursday came from Arizona law enforcement and Border Patrol, in protest of Arizona’s anti-immigration policies. The next day, Operation Anti-Security released massive amounts of information from NATO, the U.S. Navy, the FBI, and AOL.
Anonymous has successfully leaked information before, including more than 10,000 “top secret” emails from Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 3 and emails from Bank of America in March, but the new campaign will be exponentially larger.
http://newamericamedia.org/2011/06/from-wikileaks-to-sb-1070the-rise-of-the-new-global-hacktivists.php
"What do MasterCard, Visa, Bank of America, Paypal and Western Union all have in common?
"What do MasterCard, Visa, Bank of America, Paypal and Western Union all have in common? They help you pay for what you want? Well, yes... that is unless you want to help WikiLeaks make the world a better place. To see the shocking details, please go to wikileaks.org/
But, of course, "Watching the world change as a result of your work: Priceless."
What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo.
But, of course, "Watching the world change as a result of your work: Priceless."
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Information flow, Quantum Mechanics and Assange
Maybe, along with the Nobel Prize for peace, Assange could be put forward for a 'information technology' prize for the radical review of Quantum Mechanics and Information theory, known to the world as 'wikileaks'? and what I now like to call a proto hyperintelligence. --Steve fly.
"The other intriguing reason was the way Assange had arrived at his conclusion, which seemed more scientific than journalistic. He asked me to bear in mind that his background was as a computer hacker and specialist in quantum mechanics. He was fascinated by the "media information flow economy".
People forget Assange is as interested in physics as he is in ideology, and that much of his work has been motivated by an application of the laws of mechanics to information. At that first meeting, he pulled a book off the shelf and talked at length about the many propulsions and interests that had got it there – "multiple reasons why the book has arrived on that shelf". There was also "a miasma of interests behind the spread of information," he said, "and the reasons why a piece of information reaches you."And the conversation went on for seven hours in that compelling vein.--http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/30/julian-assange-interview
THE ILLUMINATI PAPERS: ROBERT ANTON WILSON.
"The other intriguing reason was the way Assange had arrived at his conclusion, which seemed more scientific than journalistic. He asked me to bear in mind that his background was as a computer hacker and specialist in quantum mechanics. He was fascinated by the "media information flow economy".
People forget Assange is as interested in physics as he is in ideology, and that much of his work has been motivated by an application of the laws of mechanics to information. At that first meeting, he pulled a book off the shelf and talked at length about the many propulsions and interests that had got it there – "multiple reasons why the book has arrived on that shelf". There was also "a miasma of interests behind the spread of information," he said, "and the reasons why a piece of information reaches you."And the conversation went on for seven hours in that compelling vein.--http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/30/julian-assange-interview
THE ILLUMINATI PAPERS: ROBERT ANTON WILSON.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
CYBERNETIC RAW SOURCE
Robert Anton Wilson, The tale of the tribe and Open Source Conspiracy theory.
Robert Anton Wilson lived a life dedicated to sharing. RAWs shared wisdom and information packed writings seem to me to present a special methodology and an illuminating example of comprehensive critical thinking, critical for our grasping a handle on 'what the hell is going on' as he often said. RAW had his hands on the handle or the 'tool' we know as 'language' since a remarkably early age, reading James Joyce, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats and Semanticist Alfred Korzybski and many more heavyweights while still in his teens.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Wikileaks and Umberto Eco
For the celebrated novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco, the Wikileaks affair or "Cablegate" not only shows up the hypocrisy that governs relations between states, citizens and the press, but also presages a return to more archaic forms of communication.
The WikiLeaks affair has twofold value. On the one hand, it turns out to be a bogus scandal, a scandal that only appears to be a scandal against the backdrop of the hypocrisy governing relations between the state, the citizenry and the press. On the other hand, it heralds a sea change in international communication – and prefigures a regressive future of “crabwise” progress.But let’s take it one step at a time. First off, the WikiLeaks confirm the fact that every file put together by a secret service (of any nation you like) is exclusively made up of press clippings. The “extraordinary” American revelations about Berlusconi’s sex habits merely relay what could already be read for months in any newspaper (except those owned by Berlusconi himself, needless to say), and the sinister caricature of Gaddafi has long been the stuff of cabaret farce.
Embassies have morphed into espionage centres
The rule that says secret files must only contain news that is already common knowledge is essential to the dynamic of secret services, and not only in the present century. Go to an esoteric book shop and you’ll find that every book on the shelf (on the Holy Grail, the “mystery” of Rennes-le-Château [a hoax theory concocted to draw tourists to a French town], on the Templars or the Rosicrucians) is a point-by-point rehash of what is already written in older books. And it’s not just because occult authors are averse to doing original research (or don’t know where to look for news about the non-existent), but because those given to the occult only believe what they already know and what corroborates what they’ve already heard. That happens to be Dan Brown’s success formula.The same goes for secret files. The informant is lazy. So is the head of the secret service (or at least he’s limited – otherwise he could be, what do I know, an editor at Libération): he only regards as true what he recognises. The top-secret dope on Berlusconi that the US embassy in Rome beamed to the Department of State was the same story that had come out in Newsweek the week before.
So why so much ado about these leaks? For one thing, they say what any savvy observer already knows: that the embassies, at least since the end of World War II, and since heads of state can call each other up or fly over to meet for dinner, have lost their diplomatic function and, but for the occasional ceremonial function, have morphed into espionage centres. Anyone who watches investigative documentaries knows that full well, and it is only out of hypocrisy that we feign ignorance. Still, repeating that in public constitutes a breach of the duty of hypocrisy, and puts American diplomacy in a lousy light.
A real secret is an empty secret
Secondly, the very notion that any old hacker can delve into the most secret secrets of the most powerful country in the world has dealt a hefty blow to the State Department’s prestige. So the scandal actually hurts the “perpetrators” more than the “victims”.But let’s turn to the more profound significance of what has occurred. Formerly, back in the days of Orwell, every power could be conceived of as a Big Brother watching over its subjects’ every move. The Orwellian prophecy came completely true once the powers that be could monitor every phone call made by the citizen, every hotel he stayed in, every toll road he took and so on and so forth. The citizen became the total victim of the watchful eye of the state. But when it transpires, as it has now, that even the crypts of state secrets are not beyond the hacker’s grasp, the surveillance ceases to work only one-way and becomes circular. The state has its eye on every citizen, but every citizen, or at least every hacker – the citizens’ self-appointed avenger – can pry into the state’s every secret.
How can a power hold up if it can’t even keep its own secrets anymore? It is true, as Georg Simmel once remarked, that a real secret is an empty secret (which can never be unearthed); it is also true that anything known about Berlusconi or Merkel’s character is essentially an empty secret, a secret without a secret, because it’s public domain. But to actually reveal, as WikiLeaks has done, that Hillary Clinton’s secrets were empty secrets amounts to taking away all her power. WikiLeaks didn’t do any harm to Sarkozy or Merkel, but did irreparable damage to Clinton and Obama.
Technology now advances crabwise
What will be the consequences of this wound inflicted on a very mighty power? It’s obvious that in future, states won’t be able to put any restricted information on line anymore: that would be tantamount to posting it on a street corner. But it is equally clear that, given today’s technologies, it is pointless to hope to have confidential dealings over the phone. Nothing is easier than finding out whether a head of state flew in or out or contacted one of his counterparts. So how can privy matters be conducted in future? Now I know that for the time being, my forecast is still science fiction and therefore fantastic, but I can’t help imagining state agents riding discreetly in stagecoaches along untrackable routes, bearing only memorised messages or, at most, the occasional document concealed in the heel of a shoe. Only a single copy thereof will be kept – in locked drawers. Ultimately, the attempted Watergate break-in was less successful than WikiLeaks.I once had occasion to observe that technology now advances crabwise, i.e. backwards. A century after the wireless telegraph revolutionised communications, the Internet has re-established a telegraph that runs on (telephone) wires. (Analog) video cassettes enabled film buffs to peruse a movie frame by frame, by fast-forwarding and rewinding to lay bare all the secrets of the editing process, but (digital) CDs now only allow us quantum leaps from one chapter to another. High-speed trains take us from Rome to Milan in three hours, but flying there, if you include transfers to and from the airports, takes three and a half hours. So it wouldn’t be extraordinary if politics and communications technologies were to revert to the horse-drawn carriage.
One last observation: In days of yore, the press would try to figure out what was hatching sub rosa inside the embassies. Nowadays, it’s the embassies that are asking the press for the inside story.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
heavily fiscalized through contractual obligations...
"Whereas in the United States to a large degree, and in other Western countries, the basic elements of society have been so heavily fiscalized through contractual obligations that political change doesn't seem to result in economic change, which in other words means that political change doesn't result in change.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034040-2,00.html#ixzz17WNUa6u7
Thanks to Stein' for the John Lennon video link.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034040-2,00.html#ixzz17WNUa6u7
Thanks to Stein' for the John Lennon video link.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
TSCOG: TSARIST CYBER OCCUPATION GOVERNMENT.
Information wants to be NOVEL. And TSCOG habits thwart the connectivity and principles of sharing that the entire Internet and world wide web are based upon.
In 2006 I went to see my local M.P in Stourbridge, UK. After quietly protesting about the lack of debate regarding the Trident missile program (reserved for a select few) and the draconian National Identity Card program, I also left details of a recent white paper (2005) by Douglas Rushkoff (MLA Faculty staff)
"Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing offline politics.
Foreword by Douglas Alexander, Member of UK Parliament.
http://rushkoff.com/books/open-source-democracy/
I hoped she might read it and reply, or maybe invite me to speak or contribute... in my dreams... she never did, and this was 5 years ago. Another sad story of failed UK democracy, but that's what happened, and is the general experiences of others I have met that visited their M.P and or write to them. Possibly Douglas Alexander could be a sympathetic M.P on this issue though, as he wrote the introduction to 'Open Source Democracy' maybe some of that book has sunk in by now, if he ever read it?
In London at the house of commons (the central point of control and policy making throughout the United Kingdom and environs) some feeble minded individuals are wrestling over a new Bill called the ‘Digital Economy Bill’, a part of DIGITAL BRITAIN business heist.
Many M.P's are trying to pass the new Tsarist like measures that include punishments for the new cybercriminals without debate (like with the Trident Missile program) scrutiny or consultation with anybody but their own gang of paid advisors, economists, bankers, lawyers and military strategists seems a bad idea to these people.
Wars are fought sitting behind screens processing information and data, from the Las Vegas drone aircraft suites to the decentralized headquarters of wikileaks. It's game-on and connectivity is king mob, I think.
A brave few are calling to scrap the bill and draw up another, or none at all. But those voices seem largely ignored and rebuked by claims of defending the musician's, artist's and creative people in Britain. Who at Ofcom can be trusted?
I say Bollocks to the Digital Economy Bill, if the .Gov want to support creative industries bring the troops home, cut military spending, scrap the trident missile program and develop art, music and craft centres everywhere immediately with that Trillion pound booty.
Oh, and maybe consider an end to the diabolical and failed war on some drugs that would funnel further Billions into the new creative Renaissance in the UK, maybe they could even think of reaching out to Africa and Asia with this extra cash, helping homeless, starving and the disconnected from the around the Global Village, both home and away.
Wikileaks operates like the peoples intelligence agency, and talks like one, and FEEDSBACK like one, meanwhile the 'Intelligence Companies' that claim to be protecting the National Security enterprise, and corporate capitalist interests both home and away behave like a rogue terrorist cell, unable to exercise suspended judgement and detailed analysis and feedback, like a gang of criminals plotting their next robbery, the worlds intelligence spooks have been beaten, battered and swept into a corner by the new Magister Ludi of the Spy Game: Julian Assange. (I like him, as he reminds me of somebody Hagbard Celine might invite aboard his submarine to raise a toast to FUCKUP. Hapy Easter Motherfuckers.
“That’s arguably what spy agencies do — high-tech investigative journalism," Julian Assange, one of the site’s founders, said in an interview on Tuesday. “It’s time that the media upgraded its capabilities along those lines.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/07wikileaks.html?sudsredirect=true
In 2006 I went to see my local M.P in Stourbridge, UK. After quietly protesting about the lack of debate regarding the Trident missile program (reserved for a select few) and the draconian National Identity Card program, I also left details of a recent white paper (2005) by Douglas Rushkoff (MLA Faculty staff)
"Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing offline politics.
Foreword by Douglas Alexander, Member of UK Parliament.
http://rushkoff.com/books/open-source-democracy/
I hoped she might read it and reply, or maybe invite me to speak or contribute... in my dreams... she never did, and this was 5 years ago. Another sad story of failed UK democracy, but that's what happened, and is the general experiences of others I have met that visited their M.P and or write to them. Possibly Douglas Alexander could be a sympathetic M.P on this issue though, as he wrote the introduction to 'Open Source Democracy' maybe some of that book has sunk in by now, if he ever read it?
What do Robert Anton Wilson and Internet have in common?
In the new age of web 2.0 hyper-connectivity and Internet Bob has influenced our trajectory in countless ways across a broad spectrum of multicultural terrain. The proof seems to be in the pudding and here I offer to set the table so that the feast can begin. Socio-cybernetics, Hyper-connectivity, Hyper-intelligence, Sharing of RAW data, processed by the likes of Claude Shannon John Von Neumann, Norbert Weiner, Marshal McLuhan
TSCOG: Tsarist Cyber Occupation Government:
The Digital Economy Bill that Ate the global constitution of sharing.
In London at the house of commons (the central point of control and policy making throughout the United Kingdom and environs) some feeble minded individuals are wrestling over a new Bill called the ‘Digital Economy Bill’, a part of DIGITAL BRITAIN business heist.
Many M.P's are trying to pass the new Tsarist like measures that include punishments for the new cybercriminals without debate (like with the Trident Missile program) scrutiny or consultation with anybody but their own gang of paid advisors, economists, bankers, lawyers and military strategists seems a bad idea to these people.
Wars are fought sitting behind screens processing information and data, from the Las Vegas drone aircraft suites to the decentralized headquarters of wikileaks. It's game-on and connectivity is king mob, I think.
A brave few are calling to scrap the bill and draw up another, or none at all. But those voices seem largely ignored and rebuked by claims of defending the musician's, artist's and creative people in Britain. Who at Ofcom can be trusted?
"Live it, love it, lick it, wikileakit"
I say Bollocks to the Digital Economy Bill, if the .Gov want to support creative industries bring the troops home, cut military spending, scrap the trident missile program and develop art, music and craft centres everywhere immediately with that Trillion pound booty.
Oh, and maybe consider an end to the diabolical and failed war on some drugs that would funnel further Billions into the new creative Renaissance in the UK, maybe they could even think of reaching out to Africa and Asia with this extra cash, helping homeless, starving and the disconnected from the around the Global Village, both home and away.
What I feel is misunderstood by many is the fact that now ‘everything’ can be represented in bits, and this bill has implications far far beyond downloading the new Eryka Badu video or Bruckenheimer movie. Although I rate window seat as a stroke of genius. Like wikileaks, just simple, better and honest, compared with the razzle-dazzle of the usual media brainwashing flashing spam.
All INDEPENDENT creative industries and UNDERGROUND artists face a possible ‘cut off’ and annexing from the means to connect. Connectivity is one of the new paradigm definitions of life, religion for example can be defined by the sense of re-connecting. So, it follows sensibly that only the divine guided CYBER TSAR can decide who connects and more importantly who is disconnected in a Tsarist Cyber Occupation Government?
If past this Bill will be like shooting a corpse twice (that represents the UK economy) and then using the blood as lubricant to screw the lifeless body to the tune of 'things can only get better by the old Labour Party friendly pop slags, D:ream'.
How, how did this happen, how did we come to be at the behest of a centralized control system that can dictate our DIGITAL DIET? Well, I have been thinking about this for a while and I have come up with a theory, very loosely based upon a term coined by my teacher Dr. Robert Anton Wilson (TSOG) that stands for Tsarist Occupation Government with a hidden joke... there is NO GOVERNOR, anywhere. My term is (TSCOG) Tsarist Cyber Occupation Government and I am still searching for the hidden joke, maybe the wheels of history will spit some out?
All INDEPENDENT creative industries and UNDERGROUND artists face a possible ‘cut off’ and annexing from the means to connect. Connectivity is one of the new paradigm definitions of life, religion for example can be defined by the sense of re-connecting. So, it follows sensibly that only the divine guided CYBER TSAR can decide who connects and more importantly who is disconnected in a Tsarist Cyber Occupation Government?
If past this Bill will be like shooting a corpse twice (that represents the UK economy) and then using the blood as lubricant to screw the lifeless body to the tune of 'things can only get better by the old Labour Party friendly pop slags, D:ream'.
How, how did this happen, how did we come to be at the behest of a centralized control system that can dictate our DIGITAL DIET? Well, I have been thinking about this for a while and I have come up with a theory, very loosely based upon a term coined by my teacher Dr. Robert Anton Wilson (TSOG) that stands for Tsarist Occupation Government with a hidden joke... there is NO GOVERNOR, anywhere. My term is (TSCOG) Tsarist Cyber Occupation Government and I am still searching for the hidden joke, maybe the wheels of history will spit some out?
The first music shared down a wire was by a band called THE GRATEFUL DEAD, who are still at the cutting edge of shared music culture and who’s one time lyricist JOHN PERRY BARLOW helped to start the EFF or ELECTRONIC FREEDOM FOUNDATION. Who HAVE NOT BEEN CONSULTED BY THE BRITISH TSCOG about the new DIGITAL ECONOMY BILL: Fatal Digi-E-Con Bill.
"War is over, if you wikileak it"
And we can now see the emergence of new hyperintelligence such as wikileaks out smart and out connect (with hyperconnections) the worlds Trillion Billion funded 'spy agencies' and provide Internet communities with RAW and up-to-date data on some of the most important pressing issues for all humanity.
The psychological warfare unit behind the Digital Economy Bill wants to disconnect. If they take this kind of Big Brother authoritarian attitude and policy they will spawn thousands of wikileaks 'like' enterprises and totally ruin any chance of gaining some 'trust' as a government that operates upon the interests of the people, not their own small group of private agenda's concerning some intelligence that 'we the people' are not qualified to handle.
The People's Intelligence Agency.
Wikileaks operates like the peoples intelligence agency, and talks like one, and FEEDSBACK like one, meanwhile the 'Intelligence Companies' that claim to be protecting the National Security enterprise, and corporate capitalist interests both home and away behave like a rogue terrorist cell, unable to exercise suspended judgement and detailed analysis and feedback, like a gang of criminals plotting their next robbery, the worlds intelligence spooks have been beaten, battered and swept into a corner by the new Magister Ludi of the Spy Game: Julian Assange. (I like him, as he reminds me of somebody Hagbard Celine might invite aboard his submarine to raise a toast to FUCKUP. Hapy Easter Motherfuckers.
Some Sources:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/01/information-is-beautiful-military-spending
“That’s arguably what spy agencies do — high-tech investigative journalism," Julian Assange, one of the site’s founders, said in an interview on Tuesday. “It’s time that the media upgraded its capabilities along those lines.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/07wikileaks.html?sudsredirect=true
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Keys Leaks Doors
A gaspel truce leaks out over the caeseine coatings.
Amid a fluorescence of spectracular mephiticism there caoculates
through the inconoscope stealdily a still, the figure of a
fellowchap in the wohly ghast, Popey O'Donoshough, the jesuneral
of the russuates. --James Joyce, FW. Pg. 349
Never slip the silver key through your gate of golden age. Collide with man,
collude with money. Ere you sail foreget my prize. Where you
truss be circumspicious and look before you leak, dears. --James Joyce, FW. Pg. 433.
-- Blondman's blaff! Like a skib leaked lintel the arbour
leidend with . . .? --James Joyce, FW, g. 508
Old yeasterloaves may be a stale as a stub and the pitcher go to aftoms on the
wall. Mildew, murk, leak and yarn now want the bad that they
lied on. --James Joyce, FW, pg 598.
And all the greedy gushes out through their small souls. And all the lazy
leaks down over their brash bodies. How small it's all! And me
letting on to meself always. And lilting on all the time. --James Joyce, FW, 627.
And may he be too an intrepidation of our dreams which we foregot at wiking when the mom
hath razed out limpalove and the bleakfrost chilled our ravery! Pook. Sing ching lew mang! --JJ, FW, pg. 338
Ann alive, the lisp of her, 'twould grig mountains whisper
her, and the bergs of Iceland melt in waves of fire. -James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, pg. 139.
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