Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Here's an old thread I started on MeatBall. It's a couple years old, back when I was first ramping up with PersonalTelco and CommunityWireless and had endless energy for discussing the ideas involved.
I've just started reading LawrenceLessig's book "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace". I'm finding it pretty challenging, here are some thoughts that have accurred to me as I read (I do not wish to defend them right now, they are just thoughts, but comments are welcome):
Further, once you can, it is your duty to contribute to FreeSoftware. FreeSoftware is responsible for maintaining liberty in "Cyberspace".
OpenSource took the teeth away from FreeSoftware, by providing a more paletable version of FreeSoftware for people to latch on to. By providing this they made it easy for people to avoid examining their thoughts on the ideals software.
Wireless networks like PersonalTelco may be an unknowing gurerrilla step to reclaiming the internet. By getting people to construct a "wireless node" in order to get access, you empower them by turning them from an user to a participant (need a better word, administrator?).
The FirstThingsFirstManifesto throws the gauntlet down to graphic designers and embodies many of the feelings of disgust I've felt over the last seven years working in the high tech industry. A similar challenge needs to be sent out to the high tech workers of the world. We need to reclaim the internet and make it "the people's", I think that CommunityWireless projects could play a large part in this.
How would you apply SoftSecurity to networks instead of to web pages? CommunityWireless would be a perfect place to experiment with this. Currently I'm exploring implementations of captive portals [3] but really all they do is use a browser as an authentication method, they don't use SoftSecurity (discussion on this last topic moved to NetworkSoftSecurity).
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