Technology

Fredy Perlman's influential book Against His-tory, Against Leviathan! expresses the position of the new 'primitivist' current in which the enemy is not capital but progress. Going beyond leftist notions of the basic neutrality of technology is a step in the right direction; but seeing all technology as essentially alienating is a mystification. Since it is itself an expression in theory of a radical setback, primitivism contributes little to the practical problem we all face of overthrowing capitalism.

News and Events

* Jeremy Hammond: A Statement from Hackbloc
* Book Fair Report Back by Frenzy

Praxis

* Fun with Linux Routing by Mark Jenkins
* MD5 crack on the cheap by evoltech
* Reducing Redundancy in Bind Zone Files by Mark Jenkins
* Delivering Weaponized Exploits with Ronin, RVM, and Bundler with evoltech and postmodern
* SSL MITM by neurophobic
* The cult of /opt by Mark Jekins
* Using Multiple Interfaces to get 1MB+/s by Anonymous
* VPN vs. Tor by evoltech

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This is the second issue the Cloak & Dagger Compendium, an ongoing serial dedicated to exploring, teaching, and developing thieving skills and tools. This issue focuses entirely on the ancient and prestigious art of lockpicking! This zine intends to teach promising footpads how to bypass and defeat warded locks, pin-tumbler and wafer-tumbler locks, and tubular locks. This edition also contains information on making one's own skeleton keys and lockpicks from commonly scavengeable materials.

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This short zine explores the concept of greenwashing, and, more broadly, the idea of green consumerism. Also suggests some less-than-subtle solutions for the problems arising from industrial society.

Pass these out at an Earth Day festival near you!

by DiZZie 2007

A personal view, from one Bristol No Borders, about the EU Surveillance State

This classic text on picking locks and manufacturing the tools to do so is a must for all beginners. It is not specifically an anti-authoritarian or anarchic text, but the skills it imparts are amazingly valuable for all direct-action-oriented radical folks.

Contains info on pin and tumbler locks, waver locks (called "disk tumblers" in this zine), and briefly touches on tubular locks. Not a completely comprehensive guide, but essential for novices. Happy pickings!

[affective disorder [in the spring of a still-born decade]]

a friend once said:
no revolution is going to be generated
out of systemic
or structural laws.

we are on our own, and what we do
we have to do for ourselves.
we are the denizens
of a strange epoch,
the ‘given’ in a surreal situation.

while knowledge of space and time has been democratized, the
modes of inhabiting them (the modes of being) are controlled
more intensely than ever before. while sharing of information
is ubiquitous, understanding and love appear empty at best – at  read more »

New text from the Northwest.

From the introduction:

"...It is the world outside of us and the world within our houses that I wish to devastate; it is the world of patriarchy, inside and out that I want to make an end of, regardless of the (lack of) agency I possess. There is a strong need to act out, to be absurd, to forget political restraints or ideological chains, to burn the fear of being disregarded as single issue. That said I have no regret for my emotion, quiero fuego..."

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