> >>     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@???>> 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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