-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/2017 12:05 AM, \0xDynamite wrote:
Honestly, I'm back to this list shell-shocked. I left this civilization, thinking things were on track, but coming back, I see the information revolution has turned into another glam and sham celebration. What happened to John Perry Barlow?
He appears to be on the boards of EFF and the Freedom Of The Press Foundation.
What's the value of cryptography if everyone's content with facebook, jabbascript login portals, and the same old commerce now 100 times easier?
Cryptography is a tool, not a magic cure-all. There is a time and place to lock adversaries out of your comms channels, and a time and place to be very visible. To tell the difference on a case by case basis, ask yourself: "Does my use of wide open public comms do more harm to my interests or to those of my adversaries?" It's a piss poor pitiful Anarchist, who refuses to use an adversary's infrastructure to harm that adversary's interests. Those who insist on trying to conceal their identities and/or activities from hostile actors at all times take themselves out of the influence game. If you have a protocol for broadcasting a persistent, responsive, influential political message without being identified by well funded surveillance actors, do please share it: That would be a fundamental and unexpected breakthrough. Otherwise, such an effort only starts a count-down timer - when will a well funded surveillance actor take the trouble to find out who you are, and trace your movements backward through time? When they do so, which of the actions you took because you believed they were "off the record" will justify the allocation of billable hours to shut you down?
Are there any revolutionaries? Is the soul for real change dead? Is everyone medicated, over-eaten, touch-screen hyper-media and everyone is PERFECTLY CONTENT?
Judging by the "social media" channels, practically no one is content; nearly everyone seems to believe that their ideological adversaries are presently in power and need to be stomped down. I see more people who either call themselves "revolutionaries" or publicly bemoan the fact that there "are no revolutionaries" all the time lately. Of course, they don't know what the word means - they accept self defeating definitions provided to them by a lifetime of exposure to counter- revolutionary propaganda. As expected, the Internet does amplify human intelligence and mobilizes distributed "smart mobs" in response to perceived problems and challenges. But the Internet also amplifies human stupidity, and some factions among our rulers have learned how to raise armies of morons in cyberspace. The result is a hotly contested information battle space where multiple factions compete to influence both ephemeral swarms and more durable herd movements. I have never seen anything like the intensity and variety of influence and disinformation projects in progress right now in U.S. broadcast and online media. As expected, the future arrives sooner every day as the rate of change continues to accelerate. I see signs of panic and/or desperation everywhere I look at any well established economic power block's publicly visible activities. What if there was a revolution and nobody noticed? The answer to that question is all around us right now.
I still have a complete revolution in my pocket, but I guess I'll have to chuck it, if there's no one here...
You say you want a revolution? Congratulations! Radical changes in the physical world - economic, technological and geophysical - are now rendering previously stable political systems obsolete and unmaintainable. New institutional templates adapted to new conditions emerge because people adapt their social and economic behavior to new conditions; not because Great Visionary Leaders issue a call to arms. The political agitation and violence we call a "revolution" is only the last stage of the actual revolutionary process, terminating it and establishing a new institutional stability for the benefit of a new set of power players. We all want to change the world. But if you have a real solution, we all need to see the plan. Restricting its distribution to "secure and anonymous" channels only guarantees it won't reach an audience that can implement it. Where and as surprise actions provide strategic advantage, do use cryptographic technology - IF your co-conspirators are also up to it, which almost never happens in real life. When physical meetings where all electronics are banned are practical, they can facilitate useful goal setting, coordination and planning. The surveillance networks will follow most of your group to and from the meeting place, but otherwise moles and unwitting informants will be the only security risks affecting the meeting itself. A proposed revolution in communications security that would have blinded State and Corporate actors to "private" network comms never got off the ground and so could be said to have failed. But a real, naturally occurring revolution is in progress anyway: Come back in 50 years and you will hardly know the place. :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYvFymAAoJEECU6c5Xzmuq9bgH/R2CijTqoezRjynaGCJTnM9G phF4jkv+9s7tT9lqrdzmsLap61F1R/flmhNgy1QQEiuR+Y+BjYSNZdQLE7HCb/i/ 2tbDLazjadWqLJCUfoJv0qAlrXW4N9lmAg4UxS8Tb8HxbAhzoNpgy17JPFalFoDG ONZy1xq8D6S1zQsjE38kI67iV9wNFM20MZiMR6ciEE+OZ3HD4RArf9L5iRp9c/nm 6jOAfg6+CUXCtiFRFmSYr86OEJjNqw/zdMlQNfbp03/KMB1RddOkg+8bCEjHiqRX aVh5R4U/6GwKGEBq8tE2Bmp6VSELVezATWkrXPDKGwHj/M/dBX4m9LvxbzXJXyA= =SdE3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----