Unforeseen consequences
I have to admit that it’s convenient to be able to pay bills online. No standing in queues at counters, no having to post paper cheques (remember them?). But as more and more of our lives are lived in the cloud, companies have had to take more and more actions to prevent the wrong people from misusing their computer systems or hacking them.
Not so long ago somebody hacked Optus’s databases. It’s…
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maia arson crimew
Gender: Non binary (it/she)
Sexuality: Bisexual / lesbian / queer
DOB: 7 August 1999
Ethnicity: White - Swiss
Occupation: Computer developer, computer hacker, entrepreneur, activist
Note 1: Known for leaking source code and other data from companies such as Intel and Nissan, and for discovering a 2019 copy of the United States government's No Fly List on an unsecured CommuteAir server.
Note 2: Is autistic
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How to stop being poor
Requirements: Computer skills, willingness to take risks.
“I’ve been poor my whole life. So were my parents, their parents before them. It’s like a disease passing from generation to generation.” — Chris Pine as Toby Howard in ‘Hell or High Water.’
“The only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the final sin is stupidity.” — Hunter S. Thompson.
In February 2016, a hacker sent…
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HACKERS: HEROES OF THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION | STEVEN LEVY, 1984
The ethics of a Hacker according to Levy:
Access to computers—and anything that might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total.
All information should be free.
Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
You can create art and beauty on a computer.
Computers can change your life for the better.
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from Teach Yourself Internet & World Wide Web Visually, 1997
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honestly i think it's hilarious that i was on tumblr during the height of its superwholock, homestuck, dan and phil, bandom, mcu, h*rry potter, etc. phases and just never really experienced any of them because i was too busy posting about creepypasta and evangelion and star trek and fucking "real footage of ghost caught on camera" type shit and wiping my browser activity in a panicked frenzy every time i heard a noise or experienced an emotion like an ant dodging microwave rays because of my surveillance paranoia. i was such an unintentionally insufferable "not like other girls" guy.
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A Life of a Hacktivist: What it's like to live for the cause
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