December 2011
407 posts
Anarchist New Year's Eve in Greece →
For the past 7 years a tradition has been established amongst antiauthoritarians in Athens, Greece to spend New Years’ Eve not with family and friends but with comrades outside the main prison of the city, shouting slogans against the prison system and lighting up the night with fireworks.
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To Spread Anarchy in Theory →
For some time in the United States there have been debates over New Anarchism and Post-Anarchism. But in this country, the Left has so far hardly noticed. For Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan, it was immediately clear who, in early November during the California Occupy general strike, who was responsible for the riots and shattered window panes: “Anarchists and troublemakers.”...
Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99% →
“I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a team of activist-geeks redesigning social networking for the era of global protest.
They hope the technology they are developing can go well beyond Occupy Wall Street to help establish more distributed social networks, better online business...
Effective DoS attacks against Web Application... →
Julian Wälde (zeri) and Alexander Klink (alech) presented a very nice way how to bring down many popular websites at 28C3. The idea is quiet simple, effective and general. Many programming languages, especially scripting languages, frequently use hash tables to store all kinds of data.
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Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz →
A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi’s wireless telegraph
LATE one June afternoon in 1903 a hush fell across an expectant audience in the Royal Institution’s celebrated lecture theatre in London. Before the crowd, the physicist John Ambrose Fleming was adjusting arcane apparatus as he prepared to demonstrate an ...
