Dan O'Huiginn on Sun, 5 Apr 2015 01:10:11 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Autumnal Net Critique under existent social conditions |
What's fascinating about this (and yes, very 90s cyberpunk) is how explicit it makes the business case for hacktivism as a promo for paid hacking work. > Shaltai Boltai, if Lewis is to be believed, is only a "side project." > The group's main work is getting hired to dig up information about > private and public individuals. Hacking politicians' email is how you build your reputation, by the sound of it. It's the same model as writing a book to get consulting gigs, or making a short film to get work directing adverts. Especially when you can re-purpose spare data: > After the main work is done, there’s always some information we > collected, but never used. That is what makes it to Anonymous > International. And Humpty Dumpty even manage to work a pretty complete sales pitch into the article ("Our prices start at around $30,000", "Sometimes we hand over information to intermediaries, without ever knowing the client") Dan On 04.04.2015 19:16, Bruce Sterling wrote: > *I'm as touched by nettime-list nostalgia as anybody else here -- > (since I was the first guy of American nationality to sign up for the > ordeal) -- but sometimes I think nettime ought to wise up and declare > victory. It's nettime's world and we just live in it. <...> > *Check out this narrative where globe-trotting Russian wise-guys hack # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org