They do not like the fact that there are those who give away their knowlege for the benefit of the world. The cartels feel that because someone freely shares his or her knowlege that the value of the knowlege controlled by the cartels is diminished. The day will come when the cartels and governments will control the flow of information over the Internet. It is beginning to happen this very day. The government and cartels can do this because they control the cables, satelites and other such infrastructure.

However, there is no need to worry. The hackers will come up with an alternative. That is what real hackers do. They take technology already created and invent new uses and capabilities for it. Private (home) networks and cells is how non-sanctioned information will be passed in the future. P2P is here to stay. The only way the cartels and governments can do away with p2p is if they remove or destroy all electronic technology from the homes and business.

It is the real hackers that the S.S. and other government-cartel goons are afraid of. It is the the real hackers that are going to bypass the controls these thugs want to put us under. So the next time the term “hacker” is used by the press, think about the real purpose of the article.

It was on in the very early morning of course because there was no way to avoid putting into sharp relief the corruption and constitutional breaches of which the government was guilty in the passage of the nixon era drug control acts.

Those acts basically give the FDA legilsative power to make it an imprisonable offense to carry any drug they feel like banning. No congressional debate, no bills, no new laws.. just despotic decree by the FDA.

None of these were high-tech, hacker jobs. Just good old-fashioned pen and ink fraud.

Oh, and lest we forget, the “War on Drugs” also includes disinformation campaigns about the substances in question that range from spin, all the way to the outright lies based on completely fradulent research done at Johns Hopkins on MDMA that was utterly disproven by European Researchers. The latter was the subject of a piece on ABC News’ 20/20 sometime last year.

The War on Drugs is nothing more that additional Corporate Welfare for the so-called ‘Defense Industry’ so they can put that money somewhere other than the DoD budget, so it doesn’t look like it’s ballooning out of control. There’s now several entrenched bureaucracies and industrial sectors that are beholden to feeding at this money trough and it’s going to be hard for anyone to put a stop to this nonsense.

Perhaps the most ridiculous thing that’s been done thus far is the “Ishtook Amendment” that forebade public transit systems from accepting any advertizing that advocated even the examination of the current drug laws and policies, let alone advocated changing them. It was SO blantantly unconstitutional that Bush’s Solicitor General actually declined to defend it before the Supreme Court stating that there was no reasonable arguement that could be made that it was not an unconstitutional abridgement of the right of free speech and the right to petition the Government.

and the hackers are already 3 steps ahead, playing a whole new “cybercrime game”, laughing uncontrollably at their feeble efforts.

“They’re employing some of the same tactics used to crush organized crime in the 1980s — informants and the cyberworld equivalent of wiretaps. ”

unfortunately unlike the MAFIA, the bonds between hackers are based truly upon loyalty, not fear and/or money. This means the FBI cannot simply “flip someone” because they can’t offer them anything lucrative.

This is just another propaganda fluff piece which says “your government is looking out for you.. we are making progress.. really.. come on.. believe us already… ok don’t believe us.. we don’t care”.

Kinda reminds me of the “war on drugs”. Sorry.. everyone with a brain knows it didnt work, it’s still not working, it will never work, people will still get their drugs after we’re all long dead.

How about war-driving over to the vicinity of a large up-scale condo building where one is bound to find at least one (if not 50) totally open 802.11 networks to connect to, or just go downtown and jack into the muni-WiFi or ‘community’ WiFi networks that are likely available. Connect via https to an off-shore proxy, (optionally connect back to a proxy in the US if you wish to instigate a wild goose chase of armed Government functionaries laying seige to the facility hosting said proxy) and jack into the chat.

The Government is always going to be at least one step behind the truly clever and creative at the forefront of cybersleaze. Furthermore, Government Service is unlikely to appeal to those who have the skills, mind-set, and personality that would be most well-suited to this type of law enforcement because of titanic clash of values that would inevitably occur.

It’s no wonder that the FBI wants a backdoor into your web-enabled kitchen appliances via CALEA.