GeorgeMonbiot GeorgeMonbiot
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Billy Bragg: Liverpool was right about News International all along
Football scarves from around the world pictured at the Hillsborough memorial on the 20th anniversary of the disaster in which 96 fans died. Many Liverpudlians still boycott the Sun over its coverage of the disaster. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA
For the past 22 years, people in Liverpool have boycotted the Sun newspaper because of the lies that it printed about the behaviour of Liverpool FC fans at the Hillsborough disaster. Ninety-six people were crushed to death at Hillsborough in Sheffield on 15 April 1989. The Sun ran a front page story that accused Liverpool supporters of variously robbing and urinating on the dead bodies of the victims as they were laid along the touchline. The reports were totally unfounded. Since then, many people in Liverpool have refused to buy the Sun on principle.As I listened to the unfolding reports of the phone-hacking story last week, it occurred to me that the scousers had been right about News International all along.
@'The Guardian'
Download For the past 22 years, people in Liverpool have boycotted the Sun newspaper because of the lies that it printed about the behaviour of Liverpool FC fans at the Hillsborough disaster. Ninety-six people were crushed to death at Hillsborough in Sheffield on 15 April 1989. The Sun ran a front page story that accused Liverpool supporters of variously robbing and urinating on the dead bodies of the victims as they were laid along the touchline. The reports were totally unfounded. Since then, many people in Liverpool have refused to buy the Sun on principle.As I listened to the unfolding reports of the phone-hacking story last week, it occurred to me that the scousers had been right about News International all along.
@'The Guardian'
Don't Buy The Sun
A tale of two worlds: Apocalypse, 4Chan, WikiLeaks and the silent protocol wars
What has become manifest since late November 2010, with the release of what is now known as ‘The US Embassy Cables’, is that the narrative implicit in the WikiLeaks logo, that of a world disjunct, not only fits the WikiLeaks saga but describes a greater struggle of global power, held diffusely by transnational corporations and enforced by governments around the world. This power is under attack by a relatively new actor that can be called, for now, the autonomous network.
The conditions that allow the network to challenge the power of governments and corporations can be traced to the origin of the Internet and the Cold War zeitgeist that made the network we know possible. It was only because Cold War strategists had to narrate to themselves the unfolding of what was known as the ‘worst-case scenario’ (the moment after a thermonuclear apocalypse was under way) that a computer network with the characteristics of the Internet was implemented. The idea of the apocalypse was so extraordinary that it allowed for the radical thinking that resulted in the TCP/IP computer protocol suite, a resilient network protocol that makes the end user of the network its primary agent. The design philosophy of the Internet protocols represents a clean break from the epistemes and continuums that had historically informed the evolution of Western power, as traced by Foucault and Deleuze from sovereign societies to disciplinary societies to societies of control.
The main goal of the early Internet was to provide a survivor with a versatile tool that could make him an empowered agent in an utterly hostile post-apocalyptic world. The TCP/IP protocol suite structures the network around three exceptional characteristics: (1) it essentially bypasses the need for central structures, establishing a network based on the principle of end-to-end (or peer-to-peer) communication; (2) it provides maximum resilience of communication in a hostile environment through the model of distribution; and (3) it is neutral to the information being distributed. These characteristics at the protocol level defined the network as, literally, out of control.
‘The early Internet was so accidental, it also was free and open in this sense [as a commons]’,1 Steve Wozniak says. To produce a commons is indeed an accident for Empire. Dismissed as a never-meant-for-the-masses autonomous zone, by and for the military and academia, it was allowed to evolve out of control. But this accident that happened because of daydreaming an extreme future never stopped happening. It evolved. At some point it gained an accessible graphic interface, and spilled all over the globe. By then it was too late to disarm what is now the increasingly contentious coexistence of two worlds, as the WikiLeaks logo registers. One world is a pre-apocalyptic capitalistic society of individualism, profit and control; the other a post-apocalyptic community of self-regulating collaborative survivors. The conflict arises from an essential paradox: because the web exists, both worlds need it in order to prevail over the other...
Continue reading
Nicolas Mendoza @'Radical Philosophy'
Scuba - Essential Mix (Live @ Sonar 2011)
Scuba Live @ Sonar 25.Jun.2011
Boddika ‘Rubba’ Swamp81
Brawther ‘Spaceman Funk (George FitzGerald Remix)’ Secretsundaze
Boddika ‘Windy’
Jon Convex ‘Pop That P’
Deadboy ‘Wish U Were Here’ Numbers
SCB ‘Mace’ SCB
Jichael Mackson ‘Gti’ Stock5
Paul Woolford & Psychotron ‘Stolen’
Joy O ‘Ellipsis'
Maurice Donovan ‘Babeh’ SSSSS
Rod ‘Malmok One’ Klockworks
Scuba ‘Adrenalin’
Beaumont ‘Lucky’ Kinnego
Marcel Dettmann ‘Lattice’ MDR
SCB ‘Loss’ Aus Music
Boddika ‘Acid Battery’
Tommy Four Seven ‘Surma’ CLR
Scuba ‘Feel It’ Hotflush
Via
Boddika ‘Rubba’ Swamp81
Brawther ‘Spaceman Funk (George FitzGerald Remix)’ Secretsundaze
Boddika ‘Windy’
Jon Convex ‘Pop That P’
Deadboy ‘Wish U Were Here’ Numbers
SCB ‘Mace’ SCB
Jichael Mackson ‘Gti’ Stock5
Paul Woolford & Psychotron ‘Stolen’
Joy O ‘Ellipsis'
Maurice Donovan ‘Babeh’ SSSSS
Rod ‘Malmok One’ Klockworks
Scuba ‘Adrenalin’
Beaumont ‘Lucky’ Kinnego
Marcel Dettmann ‘Lattice’ MDR
SCB ‘Loss’ Aus Music
Boddika ‘Acid Battery’
Tommy Four Seven ‘Surma’ CLR
Scuba ‘Feel It’ Hotflush
Via
Mr Scruff live DJ mix from Band On The Wall, Manchester (July 9th 2011)
Big thanks to everyone at Saturday's Band on the Wall gig, a lovely mixed crowd as always! This mix has an exceedingly mellow intro, so put your feet up, relax & press play!
To download this mix (for 3 weeks only) go to http://www.mrscruff.com, click on 'download code' & enter the code 'Bs97kw'. In return, it would be great if you would sign up to the Mr. Scruff mailing list (if you haven't already).. link here.. http://www.mrscruff.com/showscreen.php?site_id=9&screentype=folder&screenid=434
Vodafone Hacked - Root Password published
The Hacker's Choice (http://www.thc.org) announced a security problem with Vodafone's Mobile Phone Network today.
An attacker can listen to _any_ UK Vodafone customer's phone call.
An attacker can exploit a vulnerability in 3G/UMTS/WCDMA - the latest and most secure mobile phone standard in use today.
The technical details are available at http://wiki.thc.org/vodafone.
THC was not immediately available for comments but an associated member of the group commented that 'the problem lies within Vodafone's Sure Signal / Femto equipment'.
A Femto Cell is a tiny little home router which boosts the 3G Phone signal. It's available from the Vodafone Store to any customer for 160 GBP.
THC managed to reverse engineer - a process of revealing the secrets - of the equipment. THC is now able to turn this Femto Cell into a full blown 3G/UMTC/WCDMA interception device...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
