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Hackers Ethics & History
- Declaration of Independance of Cyberspace, John Perry Barlow, 1996
“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.”
- On Hacking, Richard Stallman
“It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have “hack value”.”
- UNDERGROUND:Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier, Suelette Dreyfus, with Julian Assange, 1997
- Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, Aaron Swartz, 2008
“We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access. With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we'll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?”
- GNU Manifesto, Richard Stallman
- A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, Eric Hughes, 1993
- The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, Timothy C May
- Privacy, Technology, and the Open Society, John Gilmore, 1991
- Cypherpunks: Freedom and the future of the Internet, Julian Assange, with Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Muller Maghun, Jérémie Zimmermann. To watch conversation see Assange The World Tomorrow, Cypherpunks, uncut