"Inspiration" that leads to hacking seems to be what leads you to make LEDs blink with Arduinos, and put on art shows... (Did you know Arduinos use the Harvard architecture?)

For me it is necessity that still leads me to hack. I hack to survive, not from day to day but from decade to decade. Early on I couldn't figure out why society acted in such an alarmingly insane manner when I first became aware of such a thing as 'society', back in 1989. In the country next door there was a guy with an early laser sight who went around and shot immigrants. Countries went to war which cost them much more than the sp(oils) they got out of it. The telephone companies had the resources to let you dial in all day, but instead they sold bandwidth by the trickle while everybody agreed that the InterNet could save the world. - Weren't we supposed to agree on how to run this planet? Wasn't it democracy that we agreed to kill and die for? ...Are we all just trying to be the last one standing?

Computers were widely reported not to be so shockingly inconsistent, contradictory as people. Having already taken apart a bunch of home appliances, successfully putting them back together again, many without my parents ever becoming aware of my secret learning, I opened a computer and saw that the interesting parts were hidden beneath layers of epoxy. This was as far as my childhood mind was able to get, permission to learn or not. So I gave up my childish ways.

As far as my parents and teachers were supposed to know, CPUs and software had a user's manual and price tag and that was final. Fortunately I had been getting pirated games since I was 7 years old, so I knew that there was a way. There was always a way, so I searched for it. I went to libraries, book stores, and of course the internet whenever I could. It didn't take long before I dismissed BASIC and started looking at Assembler as way to see inside the mind of this machine that now has come to dominate our society. With Assembler I was able see how the programmer builds up an illusion from 1s and 0s, data composed and re-composed turning into information in the mind of the user, and how this then becomes reality.

By now friends and family saw me as their future cash-cow. Surely I'd be some rich internet millionaire. Money, and how it commands people, disgusts me. Depression almost killed me. Perhaps in a way it did. Snowden proved to everyone that I wasn't a lunatic. I think he is a saint.

I'm not a burned out-husk. When morning comes in just a few hours I'm out to scavenge high-voltage electronics and CRTs. I'm going to space motherfuckers.

I wonder if EVE qualifies.

Nonsense! They just need to run their telescopes during the day when the stars aren't visible!

My interpretation of this is that the original hypothesis missed an important... law of nature? Mathematical necessity? Well, this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Where did all the news about fuel cells go??

A few years ago they were on Slashdot every week.

The system might be secure. The people will not be.

It's much easier to exploit humans than machines. The Russians did and probably still do HUMINT for this reason. US popular culture knows about Kevin Mitnick's social engineering, which is also HUMINT.

Hence, 'echo chamber'. NATO-aligned countries are susceptible to this, but in the US the problem is like a techno-fetishism. It's been this way since the '50s.

Any troll elaborate enough is indistinguishable from a valuable contribution. ;)

His philosophy is geared for rhetoric alone, like the ancient Greek, and not for enlightened self-interest.

These are not consumer items. Industrial systems seldom live just one life, and after being decommissioned they usually go up for action to be recommissioned somewhere else. If you artificially disrupt this dynamic you cause enormous economic loss, and for what? To perpetuate a buzzword?

The entire proposal is barking up the wrong tree.

It is however a moderately interesting insight into the echo-chamber of national intelligence. Rather funny to see how Mr. Geer talks about monocultures while laying on their own lore _thick_.

Yes you can, you spineless, greedy sons of bitches.

According to the Australians I talk to, all of Australian politics is a bad joke right now.

What the hell is Multi-Level Secure?

Yes, I can.

The smartphone has post-processing artifacts, blown out contrast and no depth of field.

Lets call him Bob Bigballs instead. Much more reverent.

No, look at the top comments here on /.

There is no confusion about the universe of discourse that this move is relevant in. The debate further carries a simple, concrete example of what went wrong and why.

I really think this is the real deal: the unicorn.

An alternative is to make CCTV into a public utility.