Technology

Hack

We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Phreak

Broadcast Technology

Computer Technology

Advances in these technologies have resulted in an enormous amount of near real-time information being potentially available to individuals anywhere at anytime. The "intelligence" level of systems and our confidence in their ability has also increased dramatically to the point where life and death decisions are now routinely being made automatically by computers, albeit with some degree of human supervision.

Cryptography

Keeping secret things secret and private things private.

Telecommunications

The Internet

After a short period during the mid-nineties, the "short summer of the Internet", with its utopian promises, rising commercialism and radical cybercultures, a massification of the Net set in. The period of dotcom.mania is one of hyper growth with users turned into click rates generating "eyeballs". Open, decentralized "citizen" networks are of no use anymore in this environment. Potential customers are only interesting because of their market profile.