Comment by olefoo
13 years ago
A more effective list of tactics (for the long term):
1. poison databases; feed bogus information to surveillance systems at all levels, do this as a matter of course, make it pop culture.
2. build darknets: for instance wifi nodes disconnected from the internet that multiple communities use as a dropbox and rendezvous point ( a linux box, a solar cell, some git magic (or UUCP/Usenet for the old school feel ), and you have something that exists beyond the knowledge of the network ) for extra kicks confine it to only a few locations and times. Or build entire networks air-gapped from the internet; wire your neighborhood and make your own media.
3. If everybody's an informant, make a game of it. Rat out your enemies to the authorities, better yet rat out the informants as rabble rousers...
4. Get serious; break into secret databases, copy them and spread them around.
5. Identify effective advocates of the national security state and neutralize them. But only the effective ones. If you're doing the job right the 10 people within the NSA who are politically adept and technically competent should be in jail for child pornography by this time next year. Any mid-level member of the intelligence community who isn't regularly getting hit with bogus charges and stupid anonymous pranks is probably grossly incompetent.
6. If you know anyone who works in the intelligence community, shame them socially; ask them why they are making the USA into East Germany.
7. Occupy
8. Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
Good idea. Overwhelm the system with the keywords they're flagging.
i.e., bomb. pentagon. drop-point. fertilizer. sarah jessica parker.
What (jihad) are you (allah) talking (semtex) talking about (thermite) dude? That is the worst (white house ) plot or plan I've ever heard in my (uranium) life. I can C4 myself that this plot is not "the bomb", as they say. This needs to bake, or should I say "pressure cooker" a little bit longer before we explode it on people. If we (hack secure systems) find useful (enriched) data and share it (hack the planet) with the people who really need it( secure, classified, NOFORN) we won't let them trash our rights. Trust your techolust.
Their systems are probably smarter than grep, by now.
It might be a solid starting point though. I'm sure people looking for information on home made bombs and the like would, at least hopefully if there was to be any possible defendable reason for this, be at the top of their lists of people to monitor.
This didn't help with the phone logging system.
I suggest everyone get a copy of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and read it. It's a fun read, and is a really good basic outline for how to dismantle a tyrannical regime from the ground up.
How to dismantle a tyrannical regime if you have the support of an omnipresent computer system they trust with absolutely everything.
You mean, like the internet?
Just curious, how old are you?
I think I know what point you are trying to make and I just have to say that it is very sad that passion and the belief that we can change something is associated with youthful naivete
I personally have the opposite impression.
(Not that this whole age discussion is relevant at all, I must add.)