Re: Re: 24/7

[Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
the url for a cracked version of empire has been posted on the nettime
mailing list by sebastian -see the message below. you can now copy/paste or
print from this pdf file. they are also working on the ascii text version of
the file at http://textz.gnutenberg.net
the url for the cracked pdf is:
http://excess4all.com/empire/empire_cracked.pdf
thanks to sebastian.
best,
aras

From: sebastian@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: <nettime> empire (cracked)
To: nettime-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue 31/07/01 13:45
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geert@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> could you perhaps post something to nettime if it's possible
> to crack a pdf file? i have no idea. did people try to do
> this?

loget@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> This is the encryption scheme for the breaking of which the
> FBI recently arrested a russian coder who came to las vegas to
> expose his findings. Last time i checked their software was
> only for windows ... who will free Empire?

in fact it *is* possible to crack a pdf. the recently arrested
dmitry sklyarov (and andy malyshev, to give full credits) have
written an "advanced pdf password recovery" (apdfpr) tool
(released by the moscow-based elcomsoft.com) that decrypts
protected pdfs. the free trial version will only decrypt a small
part of any document, so you can either register for $30 (which
seems appropriate to me) or try to crack apdfpr itself (google
is a good point to start, but it may take an hour or two...)

cracked empire pdf:
http://excess4all.com/empire

raw ascii version:
http://textz.gnutenberg.net

clean ascii version to come...

cheers,
sebastian

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From: "Tom Walker" <timework@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 11:22 AM
>Subject: [PEN-L:15709] Re: 24/7


> >In his last dispatch from Washington Martin Kettle reflects on the one
> >thing he won't miss - America's love affair with 24/7.
>
> In the view of this old hand, the price of admission to post-modernity may
> be had for close attention to less than a dozen pages of the Grundrisse,
> namely pages 704 to 714 of the Vintage edition. In those pages there are
> mysteries within mysteries that might take a pretty comprehensive
> understanding of Das Kap. to unravel. But the outline is there, dense as
it is.
>
> I hesitate to mention (because you will wrongly suppose that I'm kidding)
> that those ten pages can be summarized in a four word inversion of
Benjamin
> Franklin's injunction that "time is money": wealth is disposable time.
>
> If I could cut and paste from the .pdf copy of Empire, I would send you
> pages 401 to 403 where Hardt and Negri try to say the same thing in
several
> hundred times as many words. The best they can come up with is:
>
> "The progressive indistinction between production and reproduction in the
> biopolitical context also highlights once again the immeasurability of
time
> and value. As labor moves outside the factory walls, it is increasingly
> difficult to maintain the fiction of any measure of the working day and
thus
> separate the time of production from the time of reproduction, or work
time
> from leisure time. There are no time clocks to punch on the terrain of
> biopolitical production; the proletariat produces all its generality
> everywhere all day long."
>
> Which is to say, wealth is disposable time.
>
> 24/7 is the negation of disposable time and thus *value* at this late and
> lamentable stage is the negation of *wealth*.
> Tom Walker
> Bowen Island, BC
> 604 947 2213
>