Martin Hardie on Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:58:18 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> IP theft 'terrorism': WIPO |
From: ben moretti <benmoretti@yahoo.com.au> # is this like thoughtcrime? Not sure about thought crime (well maybe the thinking behind it is a crime) but its not the end of it either. It seems to fit nicely in with a whole stream of rhetoric and discourse of late. Here is just a taste: This one is a(n American) beauty: Homeland Security a tech priority DECEMBER 04, 2003 TECHNOLOGY companies must cooperate in the battle against cyberterrorism - or submit to government-imposed security regulations - US Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said. "The enemies of freedom use the same techniques as hackers do," Mr Ridge said to 350 industry executives gathered for the first National Cyber Security Summit in Santa Clara. "We must be as diligent and determined as the hackers." http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8061136^15319^^nbv^,00.html Who are these enemies of freedom, other than those nasty pirates who hide behind the name of file sharers maybe here is another hint: On Saturday, November 29, 2003 a post on the GNSO mailing list indicated that the .name registry website had been hacked. As reported by George Kirikos, "The .name registry's main website www.nic.name has been hacked, as of Saturday evening in North America. According to Netcraft, they're running Linux. They must not have kept up to date with all security updates, or someone cracked a password. Hopefully offsite backups were made, to ensure data integrity." Although, due to this emergency, the .name web servers have been pulled down as of this writing, just a short few hours ago, visitors to the .name registry home page would find a mysterious black screen upon visiting the site, including the following text: ..... The bottom of the black screen also included a rotating image displaying the following text in sequece: "It's good. www.slackware.com Open Source is Good. Free is Good. Slackware Linux." http://www.circleid.com/article/383_0_1_0_C/ And just in case you were not sure ask the current FLOSS embodiment of evil, SCO's David McBride. In his Open letter to the Open Source Community McBride couches his language in familiar "your with us or against us" rhetoric: "No one can tolerate DDoS attacks and other kinds of attacks in this Information Age economy that relies so heavily on the Internet. Mr Raymond and the entire Open Source community need to aggressively help the industry police these types of crimes. If they fail to do so it casts a shadow over the entire Open Source movement and raises questions about whether Open Source is ready to take a central role in business computing. We cannot have a situation in which companies fear they may be next to suffer computer attacks if they take a business or legal position that angers the Open Source community. Until these illegal attacks are brought under control, enterprise customers and mainstream society will become increasingly alienated from anyone associated with this type of behavior." http://www.linuxworld.com/story/34007.htm dum dee dum ... as blind Freddy knows, and if he didn't he does now (or will soon) there is a link between cyber-delinquency- piracy- file sharing-linux hackers and that other evil global terrorism - or at least in the eyes of the global machine. Uncontrolled hackers and file sharers is like smoking pot behind the school shed, just a simple step away from the heroin of Al Qaeda. And you wonder why I can be cycnical about riding on the coat tails of some liberal American types. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net