From 23ac9f57b9b4c761cb8edc5bfa0c0de77ec89326 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Silvio Rhatto Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 14:06:22 -0300 Subject: Change extension to .md --- books/spy/hacker-crackdown.md | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) create mode 100644 books/spy/hacker-crackdown.md (limited to 'books/spy/hacker-crackdown.md') diff --git a/books/spy/hacker-crackdown.md b/books/spy/hacker-crackdown.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b49abcb --- /dev/null +++ b/books/spy/hacker-crackdown.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +[[!meta title="The Hacker Crackdown"]] + +Seleção de trechos [deste livro](http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101): + + 4154 When rumor about LoD's mastery of Georgia's switching network got + 4155 around to BellSouth through Bellcore and telco security scuttlebutt, + 4156 they at first refused to believe it. If you paid serious attention to + 4157 every rumor out and about these hacker kids, you would hear all kinds + 4158 of wacko saucer-nut nonsense: that the National Security Agency + 4159 monitored all American phone calls, that the CIA and DEA tracked + 4160 traffic on bulletin-boards with word-analysis programs, that the Condor + 4161 could start World War III from a payphone. + +Jocoso, mas premonitório! Mais: + + 11658 Kapor is a man with a vision. It's a very novel vision which he and + 11659 his allies are working out in considerable detail and with great + 11660 energy. Dark, cynical, morbid cyberpunk that I am, I cannot avoid + 11661 considering some of the darker implications of "decentralized, + 11662 nonhierarchical, locally empowered" networking. + 11663 + 11664 I remark that some pundits have suggested that electronic + 11665 networking--faxes, phones, small-scale photocopiers--played a strong + 11666 role in dissolving the power of centralized communism and causing the + 11667 collapse of the Warsaw Pact. + 11668 + 11669 Socialism is totally discredited, says Kapor, fresh back from the + 11670 Eastern Bloc. The idea that faxes did it, all by themselves, is rather + 11671 wishful thinking. + 11672 + 11673 Has it occurred to him that electronic networking might corrode + 11674 America's industrial and political infrastructure to the point where + 11675 the whole thing becomes untenable, unworkable--and the old order just + 11676 collapses headlong, like in Eastern Europe? + 11677 + 11678 "No," Kapor says flatly. "I think that's extraordinarily unlikely. In + 11679 part, because ten or fifteen years ago, I had similar hopes about + 11680 personal computers--which utterly failed to materialize." He grins + 11681 wryly, then his eyes narrow. "I'm VERY opposed to techno-utopias. + 11682 Every time I see one, I either run away, or try to kill it." + 11683 + 11684 It dawns on me then that Mitch Kapor is not trying to make the world + 11685 safe for democracy. He certainly is not trying to make it safe for + 11686 anarchists or utopians--least of all for computer intruders or + 11687 electronic rip-off artists. What he really hopes to do is make the + 11688 world safe for future Mitch Kapors. This world of decentralized, + 11689 small-scale nodes, with instant global access for the best and + 11690 brightest, would be a perfect milieu for the shoestring attic + 11691 capitalism that made Mitch Kapor what he is today. -- cgit v1.2.3