Re: [Marxism] New title in the HM Book Series: Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record

[David Picón Álvarez <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "nada" <dwaltersMIA@xxxxxxxxx>
> Bitorrent and file sharing is only one small part of cyber-communism.
> The key is, of course, being "Open Source", getting rid of copyrights,
> expanding access via free accounts, fiber optics and satellite hook ups,
> destruction of Great (and small) Fire Walls, etc.

Completely agree. It's a fairly interesting tech though, insofar as it helps 
in sharing out the bandwidth in an efficient way. Certain things that are 
somewhat in the horizon and that I think are of relevance for this mission 
too would include mesh networking and cognitive radio. The catchiest slogan 
I've read on this (for the US context) is by Eben Moglen: broadcasting is 
unconstitutional!

One thing which is also necessary and isn't getting done more due to social 
than technological issues is a big uptake of cryptographic tools. Tools like 
GnuPG and its front-ends allow to set up trust networks and even can help 
pseudonymous handles to acquire certain trust over time, used correctly. The 
GnuPG web of trust is a very powerful model. Same for CACert, which offers 
free SSL certificates.

--David.


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