Hard News by Russell Brown

You going to toss your hat in the ring for Neil Walter's job? ;-)

You going to toss your hat in the ring for Neil Walter's job? ;-)

I feel my role is more of a creative one than a job of governance.

Nice comeback

Hacker politics is an interesting subject*. Some hacktivism is clearly ethical in tone (ie Wikileaks) and encourages corporate and governmental accountability, which enhances democratic depth. On the other hand, I've yet to witness the sort of hacktivism that disables possible threats to privacy and individual freedom like CCTV and other surveillance technologies, especially in places like authoritarian societies with grossly impaired human rights and civil liberties. Some hackers seem to merely be cybervandals.

*Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown comes recommended...

This Wired Article (in several parts) is a great primer on Anonymous: http://m.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/anonymous-101/all/1

the crowdsourced creativity of the Star Wars Uncut project

I was gonna post that on the Robots Capture thread,
but didn't get round to it...
it is fun

I see boingboing has a new knitted dalek...

I see boingboing has a new knitted dalek...

Oddly disturbing!