>>     It makes it easy to fight a war when your enemy does not realise they
>> are in a battle zone.... Last year a larger number woke up to the
>> realisation that there is a war going on right now and we are in a
>> battle...

>>     This year will see more... The war is being waged for your mind...
>> Social media makes a great ground for tracking people's thoughts and ideas
>> to ensure they follow the path you want them to... Ambient findabilty...

>>     This year we all face the future aware that we are in the midst of a
>> battle there will be casualties but the cause has never been more
>> important...

>>     Modern day war fare ... Remember modern day marketing was born from
>> war propaganda machines... See the system for what it is and where you can
>> wake others up to it... And create change by finding a way to utilise
>> whatever your talents in the fight for our minds...

>>     > On 3 Jan 2014, at 3:45 am, Amir Taaki <genjix@???
>> <mailto:genjix@riseup.net>> wrote:
>>     >
>>     > thus 2014, the year of the million autists uprising, the year of
>> the
>>     > largest reddit circlejerk in human history, the year rascist
>> shitposting
>>     > on 4chan crippled the internet, the year of linux on the desktops
>> when
>>     > everyone stopped using them. and the second coming of the cyber
>> warriors
>>     > when we donned our tinfoil anti-nsa armour, tipped our fedoras and
>>     > challenged the agents to a battle of our wits.

>>     >
>>     > we anunmus
>>     > no forgiv
>>     > no forget
>>     > expect us

>>     >
>>     > divided by 0, united as 1

>>     >
>>     >> On 02/01/14 16:33, Caleb James DeLisle wrote:
>>     >> I went to the 30th annual Chaos Communications Congress.

>>     >>
>>     >> I had known about the Congress since I was a young teen but because
>> of the rules
>>     >> surrounding photography, without being there you just don't know
>> what really goes
>>     >> on.

>>     >>
>>     >> Although I cannot ever say whether this Congress was special,
>> something about it
>>     >> felt historic.

>>     >>
>>     >> It was at a time when the people were beginning to wake up. When
>> the abuses of
>>     >> the NSA, and more generally the Five Eyes Alliance, went from the
>> wild ramblings
>>     >> of conspiracy theorists to words printed in the daily newspaper.

>>     >>
>>     >> I was there when Julian Assange spoke by video link of the
>> obligations of
>>     >> the system administrators who watch over these machines of
>> oppression.

>>     >>
>>     >> When I heard him begin to speak, whatever I had been doing before
>> lost it's
>>     >> importance. Before even knowing who it was that was talking, I was
>> drawn in by
>>     >> the power and compassion in his words. As I found myself crowding
>> in around the
>>     >> laptop which streamed the speech to the now-silent room and it was
>> then that I
>>     >> knew what it must have felt like when, not 80 years ago, people
>> stood silently
>>     >> around their radio sets, realizing that the war had begun.

>>     >>
>>     >> I was there when Jacob Appelbaum presented newly published leaks
>> which showed the
>>     >> Five Eyes to be even more dark and ambitious than I could have
>> believed.

>>     >>
>>     >> I had imagined the them as a group of passive data collectors.
>> Tapping wires,
>>     >> collecting phone calls and reading email. I had a romantic image of
>> them
>>     >> stopping once we just began to encrypt all data. Somehow I had
>> convinced myself
>>     >> that they would simply recognize that the insecurity was gone and
>> their job was
>>     >> over.

>>     >>
>>     >> This weekend I was forced to face the reality that it was never
>> about the
>>     >> information, it's about the control. The compromise and virus
>> development, the use
>>     >> of third party computers to attack victim networks, the derailing
>> of efforts to
>>     >> build secure systems and even the intentional planting of security
>>     >> vulnerabilities. Taken together it added up to one thing, a
>> deliberate campaign
>>     >> of Invasion and Occupation, all so that their flag, whatever it may
>> be, would
>>     >> secretly fly inside of every electronic device in the world.

>>     >>
>>     >> As these revelations began to hit home, I was struck by the
>> historical
>>     >> significance of the time and place I was in. Here I was, standing
>> on ground
>>     >> which had only one lifetime ago been The Third Riche, and as the
>> people were just
>>     >> becoming aware of the new war, it had arguably become the
>> intellectual capital of
>>     >> The Free World.

>>     >>
>>     >> I was there when the terrible news broke of the bombings in Russia.
>> As the country
>>     >> which had bravely chosen to protect Edward Snowden was made
>> powerless to protect
>>     >> even it's own citizens and as the British and American media were
>> given some
>>     >> distraction from the breaking news about their own intelligence
>> agencies, my
>>     >> conspiratorial mind could not help but see why so many governments
>> were afraid of
>>     >> letting Snowden in.

>>     >>
>>     >> This weekend I was dragged back to a world which I thought I had
>> left. In my late
>>     >> teens, I had taken it upon myself to investigate every conspiracy
>> theory, every
>>     >> crazy alien story and every piece of disinformation which sat about
>> the Internet.
>>     >> As a bright eyed ambitious kid with an insatiable appetite for
>> knowledge, I was
>>     >> cautioned by a wise history teacher. He said I should beware of
>> knowing everything,
>>     >> for to know how the world works would make me cynical like he was.

>>     >>
>>     >> Sometimes in a dark place, I envy the naive innocence of the people
>> I see in
>>     >> passing. Their life defined through their job, their car, their
>> clothes, their
>>     >> phone, the TV and their husband or wife. But if ever there was a
>> blue pill which
>>     >> would make the truth go away, so that I could be like them again,
>> would I take it?
>>     >> For better or worse, the answer has always been no.

>>     >>
>>     >> I was there, behind the veil of the photography ban, I saw the
>> swimming pool filled
>>     >> with styrofoam peanuts with people jumping in and playing around. I
>> saw the tubes
>>     >> which snaked all over the building, where people could send
>> messages with compressed
>>     >> air from vacuum cleaners. I saw the projects done by the various
>> hacker groups, I saw
>>     >> the quad-copters, the 3d printers, the lights, the music, the
>> artwork and the play.
>>     >> I visited the coffee nerds table, brewed my own Saturday morning
>> coffee and learned
>>     >> about a different type of coffee press. Everywhere I went there was
>> an ora of love,
>>     >> trust and commonality and even though we all knew the stakes were
>> high, it felt as
>>     >> though we were on the right side of history. It felt as though we
>> had the power to
>>     >> create the society we wanted to live in, the power to reach into
>> the heart of what
>>     >> is seemingly such a hopeless situation and just change it, by doing
>> nothing other
>>     >> than that for which we were born.

>>     >>

>>     >>
>>     >> tl;dr I went to a meeting and it seemed important

>>     >>

>>     >>

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