Digital Underground - uXu - Underground eXperts United #uxu-280

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Remember that. 1. INTRODUCTION. A gun can only be used in one proper way. However, the reasons why someone decides to use a gun can be several. It can be used for target practice, hunting, warfare et cetera. The latter can roughly be divided into wars for freedom or wars for conquest. Hacking can be done for several reasons. For fun, for profit or for some other reason. One of these 'other reasons' may be the protection of one of the most basic human rights: freedom. If hacking in this sense is regarded as a weapon, it would be a weapon that is meant to be used in a war for freedom. What is of importance to notice, is that an individual who uses a gun might not be aware of the potential of his weapon. He might not even be aware of what the gun does. It fires a bullet, that is true. The bullet hits something, oh yes. But if the shooter turned to another direction he could perhaps hit something valuable. Then the result from his Sunday afternoon target practice would then be something else. 2. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COMPUTER UNDERGROUND TODAY? Good hackers are talented, that is fact. Unfortunately, their talent only goes so far that they know how to break and enter. This is not enough for certain reasons. If the soldier only knew how to pull the trigger, he would not be a good soldier. He would simply be someone who only knew how to fire a gun. So, what is missing? The answer will not surprise you: knowledge. But not knowledge on how to use the weapon. What is missing is the knowledge how to properly use the weapon, and why the weapon must be used if he would like to reach a certain goal. If a soldier without knowledge goes to war, he will not be aware of the conflict around him. He will just shoot randomly, for fun or equal. Sooner or later he might hit something. If he hits an enemy, he will not know that he has done something 'good.' If he hits one of his friends, he will not know that he has done something 'bad.' He will be a blind man who just enjoys to shoot. Hackers who just breaks and enters are blind people. They are unaware of the conflict around them. They do not know that they are the keepers of a very powerful weapon, that should be used properly. Sadly enough, the computer underground have not given this problem enough attention. Instead, it has over concentrated on techniques and know-how. To know how to do something is good, but not enough. I claim that the computer underground today is defective because it does not understand that it is a part of a global conflict, far serious than the pathetic ones that are visible on the surface. But what should be done to repair this defect? I see two necessary actions: 1) Make people aware of the conflict. 2) Make people understand that they are actually a part of the conflict, and if they want to win it they must use their weapons properly. Both aims at the same thing: implanting knowledge. If this knowledge is spread and understood, hacking will transform itself from being a simple crime to a weapon that ought to be used in the most important battle of this century. 3. THE CONFLICT IN QUESTION. One becomes very depressed when one reads zine after zine just to find the ordinary 'we are not pro-hacking, but we are interested in the social, political and anthropological aspects' crap. Those words used to describe the so-called 'aspects' are by nature controversial. How can anyone debate such a subject and remain neutral? No one. It is time for the underground to stop acting like a scared child and get to the point, loud and clear, without necessary message-codes. We spoke about a conflict. It is now time to shortly begin to explain the structure and participants of this conflict. To begin, let us draw a rough distinction: that between the 'real society' and the 'electronic society.' Is it possible to separate those two? The answer is, to me, a clear Yes. The conflict is about the latter, and there are two groups who fight with each other. On one side, we got the system and on the other side we will find the individuals. The system (I have no better word) tries to shape the electronic society so it will turn out to be a copy of the 'real' society with rules, laws, control, all organized and uphold by power and violence. The individuals wants this last resort of freedom to remain free. Since I lack a good word for the battle area, let us refer to it as the 'network.' Right now, the battle is about the won by the system. With night sticks and propaganda, the system has not only managed to scare the underground to silence, it has also convinced the masses that the individuals are nothing more than a bunch of criminals who needs to be put away. If the individuals wants to remain free, not become what Orwell would call Provos, there is no time to sit around in a corner and hope for a better future created by someone else. 4. HOW CAN HACKING BE REGARDED AS A WEAPON IN THIS CONFLICT? The individuals have tried to win this war by propaganda and information alone. This would have worked just fine, if not the information had been directed only to those involved, i.e the individuals themselves. The public, the mob, the masses, is a strong force that is being used as a 'weapon of majority' by the system. The system will find no problem doing so, since the individuals do not even try spreading information to the public. The public will just hear the false arguments used by one side. Information needs to be spread, that is a fact. But there is also another powerful weapon that the talented ones of the underground might use. What I refer to is probably obvious by now. As the terrorist bomb is mot merely a fire-cracker that goes boom, so is hacking not only something that can be done for fun. Saying that it CAN be used in the conflict needs further explanation. HOW can it be used? WHY should it be used? What will it all lead to? Controlling something implies that the object controlled must be in the hands of a chosen few. By force if necessary. If the system gets control over the network, everything is ruined. The real society has then overtaken the electronic society with everything that means: Violence, threat, state controlled mobs that raids the net for 'dangerous' information and so on. But if the system realizes that the object cannot be controlled, the situation will change. If the network leaks information the system wants to remain controlled the result will be a chaos in the system. It will try to cover the holes, without success. Eventually, the system will break down and leave the individuals as the winners. I am not that childish that I believe that this will be the beginning of the utopia - more battles will follow. But it is better to be prepared for more than hide under the table. There is no need to spend years thinking about how the weapon should be used. As long as it is used at all, the holes in the object will remain open. If the weapon is put away, in favor for some ridiculous peace debate, the system will quickly cover the holes and gain complete control. However, it needs to be repeated: a weapon is worthless if the user is completely ignorant on why he uses it. It could be used for fun, but that is not enough. It will not take us anywhere. It should be used together will a rational, clear and aware mind. 5. HACKER'S PARADISE? Freedom is not something that is given away for free. It is a shiny trophy that follows after hard struggle. Just because the rich and complete utopia is never to be around, the search and fight for it must never end. We might never reach the paradise. We might just end up in the middle. But it is better to be in the middle, constantly fighting, than giving up and sinking into the endless depths of Big Brother control. The invertebrate underground is going to lose this war if not a radical attitude change is spread and accepted among the individuals. This is the hard and brutal truth. 6. NO DISCLAIMER. This file has been written for informational purposes. But that says nothing. It has actually been written for the purpose of making people think. If knowledge is a burden, and spreading facts is considered a crime in your eyes then do not hesitate to sue: <GNN@KRILLE.UPDATE.UU.SE> If you want to go to war, I will take you to war. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The ones who do not vote, may complain. 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