#hack the planet

[nma-nekro]

✨💥HACK THE PLANET🌐🗯️❕

🥣👾💾📟🛼🥪🍟🍕🖱️

[data-node2]

yes, I'm spamming Hackers pics today. Because, Hackers was released 29 years ago today.

[theworstofallpossibleworlds]

The Worst of All Possible Worlds #110: William Gibson's Neuromancer

Hacktivist/irl tiny kitten maia arson crimew (maia.crimew.gay / @nyancrimew) returns to discuss Neuromancer, the 1984 sci-fi novel that coined the term “cyberspace” and inspired a generation of hackers. Topics include breasting boobily up and down stairs, the parallels with 1995's Hackers, and how impressively William Gibson manages to capture the feeling of being perpetually on the run.

[allwhiterain]

Angelina Jolie as “Acid Burn” in Hackers (1995)

[possumcollege]

Cereal Killer's outfit from Hackers 8)

Thanks for this suggestion from a movie that probably awakened a generation of queer nerds, a movie whose release likely coincides with a noticeable spike in rollerblade injuries, a movie that simultaneously makes computer hacking look cooler AND dumber than it really is, 1995's Hackers.

[victusinveritas]

So this happened after the Heritage Foundation leak. It made me chuckle.

SiegedSec has also claimed that it has disbanded.

The Furries have been in the trenches against Fascism for a long time, because it turned out there were some Fascist Furries infiltrating conventions and...Furry cons briefly became a reenactment of the Spanish Civil War except the good guys won this time.

Here's a good podcast on the fight against the Furred Reich.

[packetpixie]

[theoutcastrogue]

Members of an ethical hacking group called Dragon Sector, including Sergiusz Bazański and Michał Kowalczyk, were called upon by a train repair shop, Serwis Pojazdów Szynowych (SPS), to analyze train software in June 2022. SPS was desperate to figure out what was causing "mysterious failures" that shut down several vehicles owned by Polish train operator the Lower Silesian Railway, Polish infrastructure trade publication Rynek Kolejowy reported. At that point, the shortage of trains had already become "a serious problem" for carriers and passengers, as fewer available cars meant shorter trains and reduced rider capacity, Rynek Kolejowy reported.

Dragon Sector spent two months analyzing the software, finding that "the manufacturer's interference" led to "forced failures and to the fact that the trains did not start," and concluding that bricking the trains "was a deliberate action on Newag's part."

According to Dragon Sector, Newag entered code into the control systems of Impuls trains to stop them from operating if a GPS tracker indicated that the train was parked for several days at an independent repair shop.

The trains "were given the logic that they would not move if they were parked in a specific location in Poland, and these locations were the service hall of SPS and the halls of other similar companies in the industry," Dragon Sector's team alleged. "Even one of the SPS halls, which was still under construction, was included."

The code also allegedly bricked the train if "certain components had been replaced without a manufacturer-approved serial number," 404 Media reported. [...]

404 Media noted that Newag appeared to be following a common playbook in the right-to-repair world where manufacturers intimidate competitor repair shops with threatened lawsuits and unsubstantiated claims about safety risks of third-party repairs. So far, Dragon Sector does not appear intimidated, posting its success on YouTube and discussing its findings at Poland’s Oh My H@ck conference in Warsaw.

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[nma-nekro]

I love this movie so much! Cereal Killer is something else for me, I wanna steal his gender and be like him in other level xd

[radio-free-beth-sarim]

We talk about how we're currently living in a cyberpunk dystopia and yeah, we probably are. It's difficult to tell from the inside I guess. But that often seems to come with a sense of nihilistic futility. That capitalism has progressed to the point where the best you can do is give up and try to survive.

Fuck that! That isn't cyberpunk! Cyberpunk is about subverting technology for personal and anti-corporate means! It means using technology in the margins of life! Using human ingenuity and creativity to tell the corporations to go fuck themselves!

We live in a cyberpunk dystopia? Then be a fucking cyberpunk! Jailbreak your phone! Hack your Playstation 5! Learn to code! Use open source software! Build a pwnagotchi! Pirate the media that the corporations won't provide you because they used it as a tax write off! Set up a plex server and share it! Take back your tech or the corpos fucking win!

Ice T had a line in the movie adaptation of Johnny Mnemonic:

SNATCH BACK YOUR BRAIN, ZOMBIE! SNATCH IT BACK AND HOLD IT!

[theworstofallpossibleworlds]

<WARNING?hack initiated> search for The Worst of All Possible Worlds in your favorite podcast client </end hack>

TSA no fly list hacker maia arson crimew teaches Josh and Brian how to hack the planet as they ride the internet superhighway straight into the eXtreme cyberpunk 90’s nostalgia of Iain Softley’s Hackers. Topics include the art of the 90s montage, the legacy of Hackers in the hacktivist community, and the paramount importance of pulling a righteous hack.

[allwhiterain]

Poster of Hackers (1995) directed by Iain Softley

[tlwebb]