Hacktivism Quotes

“I'm proud of it. Apart from marking the first occasion when I used my talent on behalf of other people without being asked and without caring whether I was rewarded--which was a major breakthrough in itself--the job was a pure masterpiece. Working on it, I realized in my guts how an artist or an author can get high on the creative act. The poker who wrote Precipice's original tapeworm was pretty good, but you could theoretically have killed it without shutting down the net--that is, at the cost of losing thirty or forty billion bits of data. Which I gather they were just about prepared to do when I showed up. But mine...Ho, no! That, I cross my heart, cannot be killed without DISMANTLING the net.”
― John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider

“Security is about how you configure power, and who has access to what. That is political,” Song said.”
― Joseph Menn, Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

“If the combination of mindless, profit-seeking algorithms, dedicated geopolitical adversaries, and corrupt US opportunists over the past few years has taught us anything, it is that serious applied thinking is a form of critical infrastructure. The best hackers are masters of applied thinking, and we cannot afford to ignore them.”
― Joseph Menn, Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

“With the right sequence of zeros and ones we could equalize all bank accounts of planet earth tomorrow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Children may be able to memorize enough formulas and facts to pass the test, but they literally have no idea what they’re talking about. When asked the question in a slightly different way or with a practical application, the appearance of understanding simply collapses.”
― Aaaron Swartz

“In an age where information was the true currency of power, direct digital action was not just a tactic, but a moral imperative.!”
― Alberto Daniel Hill, Violeta Digital

“Human knowledge belongs to the world”
― Alberto Daniel Hill, Violeta Digital: A Novella of Code and Conscience

“Either Internet or Privacy
(Cybersecurity 101, Sonnet)

The purpose of a strong password
is not to keep your accounts safe,
but to keep your accounts moderately
secure against common scammers, however,

if you become a target of actual hackers,
or a person of interest to the government,
have no doubt, your internet
activities are already monitored.

Paranoia of cybersecurity only ruins sanity,
it does nothing to establish security.
No technology that's connected
to the internet is unhackable,
either you can have internet or privacy.

So, don't post family pictures online,
keep your passwords moderately complex,
refrain from consentless content,
cloud is the last place to be private.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The purpose of a strong password is not to keep your accounts safe, but to keep your accounts moderately secure against common scammers, however, if you become a target of actual hackers, or a person of interest to the government, have no doubt, your internet activities are already monitored.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Either Internet or Privacy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Don't post family pictures online,
keep your passwords moderately complex,
refrain from consentless content,
cloud is the last place to be private.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop