[liberationtech] [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More Rights?

[Francisco Ruiz]

Kyle,

Government is always "the good guys" by definition, here and in Zimbabwue,
especially in their literature. The line separating "sedition" from "civil
disobedience" is usually drawn after the fact.


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Kyle Maxwell <kylem at xwell.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
> <ei8fdb at ei8fdb.org> wrote:
> > My issue is with - "Hacking" is bad when people do it. It's ok when the
> government do it.
>
> To play devil's advocate for a moment: isn't that true for a lot of
> things? The State is, in general, very jealous about its monopoly on
> things like violence and taxation, and (modulo anarchists, many of
> whom I love and respect) the majority of people are okay with those
> things.
>
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Francisco Ruiz
Associate Professor
MMAE department
Illinois Institute of Technology

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