Sovereign Hackers Understand:
Bureaucracies can't manage an evolving world they are grossly inadequate to understand.
Sovereign Hacker, Ethical Cracker, or Cyberpunk?
I imagine most ethical Hackers cherish the title cyberpunk, even if it is dated. They know their ethical reputation has been distorted by crackers and script kiddies; but the cyberpunk title offers camouflage as they explore the intricacies of their favorite technologies. Not that sovereign hackers don't think their various virtuous philosophies are serious, but it is easier to function undisturbed if bureaucrats don't take cyberpunks seriously. "Just a few immature geeks."
"To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - R. Buckminster Fuller
Labels are important, manage to fall into the proper folder and you will be mentally sorted, filed, and ignored.
Everyone has their own home rules for a popular game, the best ideas will be adopted by many. Standard rule sets are increasingly irrelevant. Almost every sovereign hacker shares a limited rule set within flexible small groups.
Becoming irrelevant will not stop bureaucrats from striking out as their bloated organizations and power structures die. Self important hall monitors always believe their jobs are necessary and secure.
"We elect government officials to referee a game; they have come to believe this means they own the teams, the stadiums, and the sport." - Allan Wallace
Copyright protection for media is an example, hundreds of technicians create a new way to protect a software release - costing a software or recording company millions. Within hours of release one of millions of hackers and crackers existing in the virtual world has decoded and published a way to by-pass the security measures. This is not a right and wrong judgment - it is reality.
The numbers of enlightened collaborators dwarfs the number of self-important hall monitors trying to control them. Too big bureaucracies ineffectively retaliate and co-operate at confiscating equipment and by taking a few individuals to trial - tools of the fading bureaucratic era. Highly efficient technologists will continue releasing the air from bureaucratic balloons.
Collaborative efficiency is multiplied by a vast army, a distributed and interconnected netcohort. The make-yourself-fit-in society is about to be replaced by a self-tailored future.
As the hacker hero states in Complicit Simplicity "...anything managed by computer will eventually be unraveled. There are too many sovereign hackers for anything interconnected to remain bloated, or secure."
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Standing at a crossroads wondering where each path leads. Society is at such a juncture - we are in position to influence its choice.
Developing Sovereign Hackers
There are many influences that are driving the development of sovereign hackers.
As their numbers grow, they are utilizing politics in the real world but organized in cyberspace. The next step may well be intrusions into the real world; using software tools to deflate the bureaucracies they feel have attacked them. In small numbers freedom hackers cause little but discussion. As their numbers continue to swell, they will cause alarm. The alarms will be too late, perhaps they already are.
What is contributing to the rise of the sovereign hackers? Here are some of the influences as seen by a vocal few within this community.
With distributed technology, no one location controls information, it is shared out in small pieces around the globe. Shut down computers, or jail some users, and others will keep running. In fact, overt action by real world authorities is a driving force inspiring innovation.
Each individual owns themselves, they decide the balance to use between themselves and society, and any obligation they undertake for others must be voluntary. There is no virtue in forced benevolence.
At one point large companies created software used by millions. Now millions create better software to use themselves. It is called open source. If you need an application, you build it - then share it with others that add it to their applications. The results are software that is safer, faster, and less intrusive (also usually free).
What has happened is that large companies can pay thousands of programmers to work on a piece of software, but they are competing with millions of programmers building something better for themselves. The dispersed, open model is winning.
Combine these and other factors and you have a new nation, exiting in virtual space, that is as concerned about its borders as physical nations. Stateless entities do not have enough assets to allow extortion by officials of failing systems. Sovereign hackers have no government but themselves, and they are more productive due to that freedom. Their open source relationships are growing in power by the hour.
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with nation states exceeding safety limits racing to dystopia; can we still be excited by the future?
The Jacquard loom (circa 1801) is often viewed as the first programmable machine.
"The Web is not all done, it's just the tip of the iceberg, I am convinced that the new changes are going to rock the world even more." - Professor Berners-Lee of MIT
The internet, cyberspace, the web, the new frontier; whatever it is, is as primitive a knowledge as the jacquard loom appears when compared with today's home fabricating plants.
As the Neil Gershenfeld link above talked about personal fabrication - as top down charities are being replaced by efficient bottom up micro-finance, so top down production and invention will be replaced by your individually custom tailored life.
An important basis for sovereign hackers is derived from these truths.
Government is not society. Bureaucracies, of which governments is but one, are being deflated by a million pin pricks. That is why they and other too bigs; education, corporations, central banks, unions, etc. are looting society now, trying to maintain their powers and privileges.
A better future is being developed by interconnected individuals and their small teams. The Netcohort must prevail if the world is to survive.
You will prevail.
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"When governments intervene and regulate - they decrease the biodiversity of the economic ecosystem, resulting in a limiting of natural selection within commerce." - Allan Wallace
Disruptive Technologies
The Jacquard loom was more advanced in its time than the net is today.
The warp and woof of our current world is unraveling. Seemingly, all that will be left is piles of string. But as economics has taught us with creative destruction, and engineering with disruptive technologies, solutions to our many crises are all around us.Like the Phoenix, in the interlaced nest of our destruction are seeds of rebirth.
Individual innovators and their teams have already created tools that can be combined to weave a more beautiful, more open, society. We need to pick up these threads of genius and produce a tapestry displaying a world in which it will be a pleasure to live.
Sovereign hackers are not segmented by nationality, education, or other social divisions. They are united by their integrity of purpose, and a willingness to learn and work toward a worthy goal.
That goal will be realized, the more effective each sovereign hacker becomes, the easier and faster the transformation will proceed.
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Start today on the path to owning your own life, move forward in personal freedom.
Not enough!
Some interesting ideas, but I want more to analyze.
Ok, don't stop here.
These lenses will provide some more information, as will most lenses I've written. I've even got an online book proposal about a future enhanced by these sovereign hacker individualists of the netcohort. Read the prologue.
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Living a Win-Win-Win Life
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Most of human history was a zero-sum, win-lose proposition based on scarcity and need. You can help create a win-win-win society, starting with yourself. Historically, if one person gained another person or group lost. This inspired cultures of clut...
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Visionary Leaders - inspiring and leading change
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YOU can learn to be a visionary leader. "Visionary leaders realize it's better to fight tough battles for worthy causes - than lead popular movements doomed to eventual failure." - Allan Wallace Managers focus on control, leaders...
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Complicit Simplicity - hackers end game
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forward: This free online book is not for everyone, or even for the majority of readers; however it may be for you. If you are curious, have a fair vocabulary, and want to consider how your future may in fact evolve -- then Complicit Simplicty: Hack...
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Bureaucrat Tipping - a push for change
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Bureaucrat tipping is a creative and natural enterprise involving the joy of doing it better yourself. Power corrupts, but bureaucrats are proof that even a little power corrupts absolutely - few of them can tell differences in degrees of power. Bur...
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Netcohort Institute - student powered peer to peer education
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YOU change the world? Only if you want to. Your passions have led you to deep insights, other students need your help to find them. The old model was to go to school, find a job, get experience, and move up the ladder (maybe). The new route is to dev...
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"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." - Benjamin Franklin
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