revolution

	Revolution is traditionally the overthrow of the government.  I don’t advocate this.  Also, I see more threats to our liberties than mere governments.  They are a threat, but one of many threats to our liberties.  When I advocate breaking the law, breaking antique moral codes, and being disloyal to corporate America I advocate doing so through nonviolent means.  When I encourage you to be immoral I mean to that you shouldn’t allow others’ moral codes to dictate your own behavior.  

	I see many rights that need defending.  To expect our government, or the ACLU, or anyone defend YOUR rights is to give them away.  You need to excersize your rights, or else they will be lost.

	I see the following as our rights.	

defending our right to the truth
defending our rights to privacy
	rich/poor data access
defending our right to associate
defending our right to communicate

	While asserting your rights, one must respect others’ rights.  If you do not respect others rights, do not expect to keep your own.  Defending these rights for any person or group is to strenghten them for yourself.  This is why the ACLU defends the right of nazi’s to assemble.  Not for a love of neo-nazi’s, but to uphold the right to assemble.

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Let me talk a bit about the power structures that are a threat to our rights.  
the threats to our rights (power structures of the past, present and future)

	When I talk about power structures, bear in mind that these have been useful.  Sure, we all like to think of the crusades, the European holocaust of the inquisition [book on inquisition, bibliographies], and the corruption that power brought upon that organization.  But bear in mind as I talk about the reasons to by-pass, or hack, the unhealthy parts of these bureaucracies that they all do serve functions.

	As we disgard some of these systems (the Church, for one), we should be creatively trying to replace the positive aspects with new forms.  We don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater, to be cliché'.

	All three of these powers are bureaucracies, by nature.  We as hackers learn to manipulate and exploit bureaucracies, by-pass power structures.  

I'm going to talk about the three categories of beurocracies, the three power structures.  I'll briefly discuss the positive aspects of them.  I'll go into some depth about threats that they pose.  Then I'll discuss what we can do about them.  This isn't about tearing apart the world, this is about claiming our rights.

The order in which I do this is intentional.  

The Church
	When I speak of the church I'll speak of Christianity, the religion I've had the most exposure to.  Other religions have similar issues of control.  Islam, for instance, especially limits the freedom of women.
	Positively, the church has been a social structure, a facilitator of community, can be charitable.  It has also helped people get in touch with spirituality, albeit in an authoritarian structure.
	The church, as an organized power structure bureaucracies has had a lot of power.  Science/Knowledge was repressed if it differed from Church Dogma (note this is the case with State and Corporate dogma/propaganda as well).  The role of the woman in the church has traditionally repressive, and still is in to varying degree's.
	Censorship has been a trademark of the church, and there is still a good deal of power in this area.  Not only censorship of opposing religious beliefs, but more importantly attempting to keep everyone adhering to their medieval moral standards.
	Today the Christian Right is a powerful political force.  Their agenda seems obvious, however they always state their short-term goals, which at times appear reasonable, and leave out their 'dream' of what America should become - a Christian State.
	Not only has the church censored, but it has also vigorously persecuted any who clash with their primitive moralities.  Homosexuality, consetual bigamy, premarital sex, sex education, and contraception are all consensual activities which they condemn and do anything in their power to prevent.  Their power is growing.
	Personally, I think the entering into the political fray is a sign of the last dying gasps of Christianity as we know it.  Unfortunately, this last gasp could last our lifetimes.

Traditionally
	When people talk of revolting, they most often refer to the state, or government.  When church was the principal power, the dissidents talked about breaking off from the church - a sign of revolt.  The government, arguably, is our current largest and most powerful bureaucracies.

	A more recent invention, but still long established as a repressive force.  The state plays many important positive roles -  maintenance and creation of infrastructure, defense, and public safety.
	I'm going to use our country as an example, but remember that other countries have the similar institutional sub- bureaucracies.  I’m going to point out how each beurocracy infringes on various rights, and is corrupt in various fasions.  I’ll talk more about my theories of why corruption is inevitable if someone asks me about it.

	The congress.  The phrase 'campaign finance reform' is double-talk for dealing with our rampent corruption.  Given the millions of dollars it takes to become a senator, and the money one must raise to run for office two things are clear:  1:) the "average man" doesn't stand a chance of making it.  2:)  The constituency of the elected politician is not the voter, but the contributor.  
The Arizona state legistislature was stung in an operation to buy votes.  Most of the senate was bought off for a pitiful amount, all under ten thousand dollars.  Similar coccuprtion has been exposed when sting operations have been attempted in other states.  These are very politically dangerous and controversial, however.  It doesn’t look good to show how easy it is to buy a vote.

	The Secret Service, which was once an organization to prevent counterfeiting and protect our president is has dubiously taken on the task of persecuting hackers.  By a creative work of legal manipulation they now consider computer time theft as  counterfeiting  "fraud"..  Their original purpose was important, if counterfeiting is rampant, faith is lost in our currency.  Their current role is expanding, ill-defined, and overlapping with other law enforcement agencies.
	The BATF is another law enforcement child of the Treasury Department.  I don't think much needs to be said about their possible abuses, this is becoming a press child currently.  Note however that the debate is a partisan one, and focusing less and less on the events, and more on political posturing..  Their witnesses are disagreeing, and the investigation is turning into a political fiasco.  While American's may be contemplating this seriously, politicians are doing their jobs - politics.
	The IRS.  To collect taxes was their purpose.  This occupation has been notoriiously brutal in past governments and is so today.  The only debters prison that exist in the US today is for tax 'offenders'.  The tax protesters I've met were very strongly involved in their community, and are not paying taxes because of the uses of the tax money.  An IRS audit is one of the most feared legal actions that can be taken.  However, when the IRS was recently audited, and failed miserably, their excuse was ‘we were never prepared to be audited’.
	To know the FBI, one must know its past.  For any who don't know about J Edgar Hoovers many treasons, blackmails, fetishes, and exploitation, read I suggest you do a little research.
	The DEA is the arm of the government which persecutes individuals who attempt to use free-market exchange to sell drugs the government does not approve.  It is also a vehicle to control what you and I put in our bodies - the ultimate invasion of privacy.  The drug policies in this country have created a violent black-market criminal syndicate.  With the criminlization of certain drugs, users are risking their lives whenever they put a synthetic drugs with possible dangerous impurities into their bodies.  I believe our drug laws constitute the most sweeping violations of our constitution.  To name a few:  freedom of religion, historically many religions use sacred herbs to distort the senses.  Cruel and Unusual punishment:  the mandatory sentencing laws are clogging our prisons with victimless crimes, for long periods of time - those violent offenders that did not have mandatory sentences are being released early to make room for those prisoners.  We have the highest incarceration rate of any first world country.  Unlawful search and Seizure:  people can have their houses, boats, cars, and moneys confiscated without first being convicted of a crime.  
	The FDA is funded largely by pharmaceuticals who pay to have drugs brought through their lengthy drug testing program.  The pharmaceutical industry makes money from 20 year monopolies called patents.  Natural remedies, prevention based therapies, and holistic medicine all pose a threat to the current chemical pharmaceutical industry that's intertwined with establishment medicine.  [How to Stop the FDA]

growing in power and importance
	the corporation

	An undeniable benefit of the corporation is the ability to undertake tasks which require massive amounts of capital.  They exist for one sole reason - to make a profit.  
	The corporation is our newest beurocracy of power.  It's powers are still emerging, and expanding.  The international corporation is powerful in it's mobility.
	Let's look at the powers, used both legally and illegally to obtain their ends.

	Internal security realizes, if they know their job, that they'll lose more money to internal theft than to external theft.  Chain retail stores have internal security, or out-of-house security, monitor their employees for theft.  One is always being watched.  Employers may use camera's at their own discretion, and do.  At Microsoft there were many camera's you could see on campus, but there were many miniature camera's you could not see.  If you have a job where you use the telephone the employer may often listen at their discretion.  There is no privacy within the corporation.
	There are often different layers of security.  At my last job there was the outside contracting security company working there.  But there were certain 'control rooms' which only MS Employee could work.  I'm not sure if ever saw those guys.  Corporate security does not have law enforcement watching them.  Unlike governmental security, there is no internal affairs, no balance of power.
	Those with large amounts of capital, have the power of the law.  Especially in the little-understood area of computers.  One does not have to be right to file a law suit.  There are no public defenders for Civil Suits.  We all should realize the punishment for electronic crimes is not what the courts hand down, but what the lawyers take.  One only need take look at the corporation of scientology to see how it manipulates the legal system to it's own end.
	There is no constitution in a corporation.  You don't have the right to free speech, that's insolence, or insubordination.  You don't have the rights to arms, most companies prohibit this.  You don't have the right to privacy, many companies require a urine sample and/or psychological test prior to hire.  Only the military-industrial complex breaches your privacy to an otherwise unlawful manner - lie detector tests.  The constitution is used to govern the behavior of the government, not private corporations.
	The newly emerging private power structures growing amounts power.  The telephone company, as you know, has always had an awesome amount of knowledge and power.  The general public has no idea how closely this is done.  With the cellular phone, there is a record of your physical location and communications is readily available in court.  It even more easily looked at if your in suspicion of defrauding the telephone company.
	Data collection and privacy loss - your information is a commodity.  It's true.  Your demographic profile, your buying habits, your interests, your newsgroups, your web hits, your TV watching patters, these are all valuable.  Cross-referenced they paint an intimate view of yourself.  This information is being sold every day.  The commercials are watching you.  
	Limited warranties and other dubious practices.  Ever have a warrantee that appears to strip down your every possible right to get satisfaction if you aren't happy?  The time is often short, the areas they cover are short, their language places many burdens upon you to make your case.  At the bottom, it usually points out that your rights may vary from state to state.  But we won't exersice them if we don't know them.  Do you know what your states laws are?  Have you ever not returned something because of the hassel?  I have.  And their profit is still there.  Ceveat Emptor.
	The entity of the international corporation has much power in it's mobility.  If faced with threats of local regulations that slow down their acquisition of wealth, they can shift productions to other corners of the world.   When they negotiate with a union over health conditions when you can move to indonesia and make your tennis-shoes there with workers working for 50 cents a day.  When the shareholders look at the value of  their stock the concern is not the person working at the factories, but how much money they are making.  
	The lines between governmental law enforcement and corporate investigations is growing thinner and thinner.  Corporations cooperate with law enforcement, and share information.  The corporation is more interested in protecting it's assets than the government is.  If the government is shown clear evidence by the corporation, they have to investigate it.  Or so would go a rational for this ever-blurring line between corporate and governmental powers.
	For example:  A number of months ago a friend of mine got a visit from the secret service.  They had information that allegedly indicated he ran a pirate board.  His alleged board had been called, apparently, by people using stolen codes.  This was that large case, some ungodly number of card numbers stolen.  The SS wanted him to provide information about his users, which he was unwilling to do ("show me the court order").  They called him weekly after for a period of at least six months, could still be calling him as far as I know.
	From government to corporation.
 After they interviewed him, they "set up" an interview with Microsoft piracy investigator.  I forget his name, something like David Bruzlebrubber, that's not it, I know, but close.  The investigator alledged a lot about my friends past, past handles, affiliations, etc.  He again was asked to talk about other members of the pirate community and was just as unhelpful towards them as he was the SS.	
	This all interested me very much, and I wanted more information.  I called them up and asked for an interview.  Because I went of my own free will and was 'helpful' towards them they agreed it wouldn't jeopardize my job.  I got some useful information about what they were doing, and their viewpoint.  I compromised some information about myself, but none about others.  They knew some very big boards, and asked me about certain groups.  They asked me about Gail Thackery, whom I've known from previous defcons, she's also busted many friends of mine. 
	From corporation back to government.
	A day, perhaps two later I got an interesting piece of email.  It was received at my Microsoft account, which I don't give out to anyone, I see their mail as evidence, permanent records of MS.  The mail was from a friend of Gail in law enforcement who said Gail wanted to talk to me, apparently she doesn't have email, or it wasn't up.  Probably not in the budget there.  The email said she heard that I had been talking to some friends of hers.  
	I called her up, and we had a friendly "what’s up" chat, but the whole thing spooked me.  

	Temporary Loyalty.
	The employer expects loyalty.  I find it little wonder a minimum wage taco bell employees by-passes their complex security and pockets money.  Bad working conditions, strict rules, low wages, distrust of employees do not inspire loyalty.  Those are the food factory workers.  But even management has lost what was once his security.  No job is permanent, and one will most likely not last until retirement.  If one does stay that long, and is garenteed his job, his performance may be akin to garenteed jobs in the soviet union of the past.  It is a no-win situation in which loyalty is limited because the company will no longer take care of the employee.  Every person for himeself. 
	twenty years ago, one could expect to stay in a company for a lifetime.  The gold watch was expected, a retirement, big party after years and years of service.  Today, these expectations are foolish.  IBM laid off its first person not three years ago.  There are no more garentees.  The reason for loyalty, the expectation of being taken care of is gone.  Every person for himself.
	Corporate media
When you get your ‘news’, you are getting it from a corporate beurocracy.  To offend advertisers is to loose business.  One must assume that the corporate media is doing what every corporation is doing - looking out for it’s own bottom line.  Currently television media are conglomerating more and more.  Restrictions are being lifted upon mopolization of television stations, radio stations, and newspapers.  GE, Westinghouse, these are the militiary/industrial complexes which your news originates.  It’s not the government that censors our media, it’s the media that censors itself.

Revolution - Freedom
	To become free it may be necessary to break free from medieval morality, break unjust laws, and be a disloyal employee.  Some may call you an disloyal  sinful criminal.  To be free in a room of slaves is demoralizing.  Free your fellow man, give him the tools, the knowledge to fight oppression.  Do not infringe on others' rights.

	CENSORSHIP
	The most dangerous type of censorship is self-censorship.  This is employed by the corporate media, and politicians, and the average citizen.  For example, the clinton campeign didn’t mention bush’s iran-contra fiasco, yet they hoped someone else would.   Many people don’t voice their politically dangerous opinion that drugs should be legalized. 
	Don’t censor yourself.  Don’t fear that what you have to say would be too controversial.  Once you do this, they’ve already won.  Speaking out loudly, shining a spotlight on threats to freedom works.  A spotlight always makes the cockroaches scatter.  

The Christian Coalition a political church is attempting to censor.  They pressure television stations, legislation’s - national and state, and local communities to disallow any materials dealing with sexuality.  They are organized, they  have a purpose, and they are using the political system to effect change.  To be ashamed of your sexuality, to denounce what turns you on, to stay silent on the issue allows their voice to be the only one.   
There is much knowlegde that is disallowed, hidden.  Government activities, corporate crime, and “illigitimate” information needs to be disseminated.  People without access to technology need it - they can contribute to the world.  Distributing this information is illegal, potentially dangerous.  This, in my humble opinion, is the best use of hacked accounts.  Obtaining information, dissimating information needs anonymouty.  This protects your hide.  This is important.  Whistleblowers are only silenced when their identiy is known.  
Don’t post information anonymously criticizing media lies, governmental disinformation, or publicly available information about corporate corruption.  Post this publicly, with pride.  Be able to back up your claims.  To hide behind anonymity when distributing ‘legitimate’ information is giving up your first amendment rights.  The first amendment needs to be exercised, or else it is lost.  If you are criticized, respond intelligently.  If you are harassed, don’t respond to them - merely publicize and document their harassment.
	Privacy
PGP is a threat to power.  In the USA, in China, in countries where the freedom of speech is infringed, PGP allows secure communications.  We all know how important PGP is, I believe, but using it is essential.  Using it religiously, and spreading the word, causing other, non-technical people to protect their private communications is the only way privacy will exist.

	Privacy is not protected under our government, yet others view it as important.  I view it as important.  Protect yourself.  Your privacy won’t be handed to you, you must diligently enforce it.  Be aware of every peice of information you hand out.  Fill corporate databases with misinformation.  I type my name differently when filling out forms that I know will end up on mailing lists.  You’ll identify how your personal data travels.

	Economic Freedom
		You are independant.  Don’t depend on your employer for security.  Consider yourself a consultant or independant contracter.  Make your hobby your job.  Most people spend most of their waking time working.  It’s idiotic to do something that you don’t enjoy.  Keep your resume updated at all times.  
		If you can, avoid the monetary system.  Avoid dealing with cash, instead barter.  An ideal barter will let you get rid of something you don’t value very much in return for something you value dearly.  An ideal barter will leave both sides with the impression that they’re taking advantage of the other person.  
Bartering also bypasses the IRS, which takes a sizable portion of your income - as you well know.  I consider this theft.  

	Access to information
		yes, access is a right you have.  You need to know when the government is killing people, radiating them, listening to them, lying to them, lying to you.  You have a right to gain access to information about OUR government.  This government is supposedly of the people, by the people, power granted by a social contract.  
		Corporate secrets are also your right to posess.  This perhaps sounds shocking, yet you need to know when your enviroment is being poisoned, when your being manipulated by PR machines, when their ‘downsizing’ is a doublespeak for transporting jobs to third world countries.
It is your right to access immoral information.  It is your right to disseminate immoral information.  Fuck shit, cunt, lick.  Others may find it distasteful, but they have the right to filter their information.  To offend for the sake of offending however will cause you to be ostracized by all.  Even fellow ‘shockers’ will not appreciate you - they too are looking for attention.
	
	On the internet you can’t trust anything you see in a post.  Claims without sources to back them up are generally discarded.  You learn to be suspicious.  This is good, this is healthy.  Disinformation is good, and will be exposed.  Read the arguments on alt.revisionism to prove this.  By initially distrusting information that crosses your path, you will learn to distrust already accepted media.  My editor was quoted in the New York Times - she was displeased that they misquoted her, but happily amused that she was promoted from associate editor to senior editor by the Times. 

Health freedoms.  You have the right to put whatever you deem appropriate into your body.  If you poison yourself you will suffer.  Your own bad judgement is its own punishment.  Don’t trust propganda concerning what is healthy and unhealthy.   This is civil disobedience.  These are your rights.  if you don’t use them, they will be lost.

the non-threat of piracy
		the responsibility of software companies, and of users.

	Freedom from the military industrial complex.
	Hacking this is dangerous.  The buzzword of ‘national security’ is used to prevent you from knowing about the abuses of our government.  It’s in the best interest of the military and the supporting multinational military corporations to be in a state of war.  Relize this!  We are the largest arms dealer in the world.  Think about that.  Don’t die for your country for oil.  Avoid the draft if the war is immoral.  To subject yourself to military rule is to trust the government’s judgement as to whom to murder.  It has been fifty years since we’ve had a threat to our country, but only a few years since we’ve been to war.  Been to war for our oil companies.  You lose all your rights when you enter the military system. 
	The NRA is the PR arm of the gun manufacturers.

[media]
Manufacturing Consent - The poligical economy of the mass media
Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
(c)1988 Pantheon Books, NY
	A clear, if not academic look at why our media is as biased as it is.  Why friendly state's repression doesn't make the news, and the enemies state's repression makes the headlines.  It isn't economical to offend advertisers.  Why the same re-used accepted sources aren't trustworthy.  Remember, our press is informative, THEIRS is propaganda.

Censored - The News That Didn't Make The News
(C) 1993 Carl Jensen
Shelburne Press
	These stories captivted me!  The death of the EPA, increasing sterility, corporate crime rampent, trashing federal regulations for profit, desecration of native american land and more.  Why didn't this make my headlines?  Dunno.  

Unreliable Sources - A guide to detecting the bias in news media
Martin A Lee & Normal Solomon
1991Carol Publishing Group, NY, NY
	See the interconnection between media, corporate culture, manimpluation.  Learn to watch for bias, missing stories, junk food news.  Do you watch the O.J trial?   Don't you wish the Sen. Exon hearings were on instead?  How many people know Susan Smith's name, but not their own congressman.  Heavily doesed with real-life examples.

[government]
Deep Black - the startling truth behind America's Top-Secret Spy Satellites
by: William E. Burrows
1986 Random House, NY, NY
	Is the government five years ahead of the private sector in technology?  Why doesn't our congress know where all it's military money is going?  What are the cool toys the spooks use?  Why are these my tax dollars?

The politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
by:  Alfred W. McCoy
(c)1972 Harper & Row Publishers, NY, NY
	Our government run drugs?  Nah...  Read it anyways.

Stop the FDA - save your health freedom
Ed: John Morgenthaler & Steven Wm. Fowkes
1992 Health Freedom Publications, Menlo Park, CA
	You don't have the rights to your own body.  Learn about the beucracy controlling your medicine.  Learn their attempts to grab amounts of power that would disallow vitimins.  And more.  

The Emporer wears no clothes - Hemp & the marijuna conspiracy
by:  Jack Herer
(c)1994 HEMP Publishing 5632 Van Nuys Blvd, Van Nuys, CA 91401
	The bible of hemp legalizers.  This book shows that the government's drug stance isn't well-intentioned ignoranced, but rather started from greed, systematic propaganda, racial bigotry, and now control.  Unfortunately the people who argue for the continued criminalization aren't much fun to debate, their points pale and shiver when the facts come to light.  Arm yourself, with knowledge.

The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology
Second Printing, 1960
Rossell Hope Robbins
(C)1959 Crown Publishers, Inc. New York, NY
	This books solidly documents the church's reign of terror from 1320-1736.  In this time the church invented a religion, and persecuted it's imagined followers.  Amung killed were midwives, ugly people, anyone accused, political enemies, et cetera.  It details how church members expanded the mythology of devilworship.  Ironically, this imagination turned real in the twentieth century.  13 pages of tiny-font bibliography makes this a wonderful start to research.
	
Reborn in the USA
Trent Sands
1991, Loompanics Press
	Techniques!  Sure you know many or most of them, but here they are in a clear orderly presentation.  This would probably constitute 'evidence'.  Credit, Birth Certifcates, IRS, Mail Drops, and all those other techniques.  Another fine read from Loompanics (get their catalog).

Secret service abuses (operation sundevil)
Hoover
Arizona state legislation	
NORML