| Heiko Recktenwald on 9 Sep 2000 15:18:39 -0000 |
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| Re: <nettime> Hacktivisme artistique (fwd) |
To see whats happening: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 02:05:35 +0200 From: fran ilich <[email protected]> To: Heiko Recktenwald <[email protected]> Subject: Re: <nettime> Hacktivisme artistique From: "Heiko Recktenwald" <[email protected]> >Dear Fran, could you explain the idea behind borderhack ? penetrate the border with a borderline mind set. the border isn�t as real, as when you are inside the border or as close to the border as you can get. even worse, the border isnt as thick as when you�re already past it, because then you can see that even if you see the border somewhere at your back, you see that the system has lots of protection files that aren�t that easier to update, because they�re configured to read the border, so they re constantly causing failures and fatal exemptions to the machine. files and bytes get lost in the transaction. tension causing riots in the actual hard drive. what we are looking is to actually find out why? >To me, borders are part of a system, but you know, not everyone likes the eversystem. there are lots of programmers open sourcing. >where we have different states, and >states are garanteeing freedom, democracy etc, at least >in europe... thats great, but i really dont like windows. i know everything works better if you only use microsoft on your machine, but you know how it is... >Maybe I am oversimplifying things, but whats with social >security systems, >schools etc, if all borders are open ? we can always get patches somewhere, have you tried searchin astalavista..... i dont know, even windows has been written upon tons of bad code..... you know, i know the desktop looks really cool, but there are things in the back causing conflict, i mean, just look at the mess in the temp directorys. people could really economize a lot of resources if they just took the time. >Maybe the situation in Mexico (or Polonia etc..) is too >bad to think about >things like this, but to me, hacking the borders is like >destroying states maybe, but you know, not for me. and then again, im not sure what you understand by hacking, but you know, hacking is not destroying. hacking is done to get to know better the system, and actually if im not wrong, the system its always repared by person who understand the system. im not saying we do, but is it that bad to try to learn? >and this *is* neoliberalism. >What did I overlook ? maybe that i didnt write the piece, and that it was written by another person? a writer from liberation..... =) nos vemos en el futuro. ilich. http://www.neuroticos.com/borderhack # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]