We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists Page #2
people woke up and saw a
car up there in the morning,
or they measured a bridge by the body-lengths
of somebody, let's say his name was Brian
and they discovered the bridge
you know, 822 Brians.
These are funny things.
That's where hacking originated
and then migrated in
engineering and computer communities.
It's, really, it's pranks.
Basically Microsoft
and Apple, both,
got their entire start of computer crime.
Bill Gates stole
pretty much all of the MS-DOS.
Steve Jobs,
defraud the phone company.
I always saw hacking,
as implicitly political.
Hackers, whether they're
conscious about it or not,
whether explicit about it or not,
make a statement,
about how we should treat information.
And some years after my book came out,
one of the people I wrote about,
Richard Stallman,
got very publically
and explicitly political
about open software, about..
And he believed that software should be free.
Free as in freedom, not free
as in beer, as he put it there.
Behind it, whether misguided or
not, there is a political impulse.
Hactivism was a term coined by a
group called Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc).
The Lopht had an interesting
relationship with the cDc.
Actually there was 3 members,
that were in both organizations.
And we kind of capped like,
the serious security research,
that they were doing, they
and if they're doing some sort
of just goofy stunt-like things,
they would do it under the cDc name,
because the cDc was really kind of a,
sort of, like a propaganda
type of organization.
They had a guy who was
the minister of propaganda,
they were kinda merry pranksters
like, everything they did,
was completely over the top you know,
they would dress up like Mr-T sometimes,
DEFCON, like a rap performance.
One of the guys there, I think his name is
t-fish, or short for tweety fish, coined the term
hactivism, because he saw what,
one of the things, his group was
doing, which he called hactivism
was writing software that people in other
countries could use to communicate securely,
even if their government
was spying on them.
So what the principal was really,
was freedom of expression.
It was everyone should
have access to the internet,
everyone should be able to communicate and
get their message out on the internet.
Even more important in countries,
where there was repressive regimes,
that if you said something against the regime,
they would come and take you away
and you weren't saying anything anymore.
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