On 7/18/23, pro2rat@yahoo.com.au
CypherPunk 2023 - who could have producted!
https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/news/binary-news-network/flux-s-groundbrea...
Confusing event that crosses boundaries? url ends in .com, uses centralized hosting infrastructure + javascript. says it focuses on web3 i.e. dapps. looks like a real event.
Failure is an Organa file
Cypherpunk ethics is captured by the normative cypherpunk slogan “privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful.” Cypherpunk epistemology is a form of data activism that calls for a hands-on response to the datafication of surveillance and relies upon both pro-active (transparency) and re-active (privacy) strategies. While the cypherpunks are famously concerned about privacy, because cypherpunk philosophy also calls for “transparency for the powerful,” cypherpunks have practiced a distinctive form of cypherpunk sousveillance. By understanding that cypherpunk theory and practice . . . "
https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/vi... https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/vi... Really heartening and grounding quote, thanks. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346490424_Privacy_for_the_weak_tran... https://sci-hub.ee/10.1007/s10676-020-09571-x This second older paper regarding Assange came up in search results, not certain why. Connecting wikileaks to the quote is interesting, reminds of the recent post on leaving from dal (dal mentioned to me privately of briefly resubscribing to share the newer article then unsubscribing) regarding wikileaks change in public behavior. Wikileaks is like a non-sequitor, and I'm sorry about that. Regarding this, the apparent new public behavior of wikileaks seems similar to behaviors of organizations after falling apart after controversial publicity. If it was (likely) coopting, infiltration, network redirection, etc driven by one or more spy agencies, it's notable to have the display on the global stage of such a well-known organization. It's also possible that dal and i are ourselves experiencing these things, resulting in us receiving different behaviors of public organizations due to something intercepting or influencing our media and websites.
cypherpunks were a highly educated, mostly libertarian community permeated by aspects of anarchism which arose from a societal disaffiliation inherited from the counterculture. This article further argues that the cypherpunks were also influenced by the hacker ethic and dystopian science fiction.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2021.1935547