[olug] OT: Freedom Downtime review

[Daniel Pfile]

I haven't read his book yet, but I read the first chapter.

http://thememoryhole.com/lit/deception-ch1.htm

Kinda sucks they left it out of the book...

Does anybody have a vidcap card? We could make a divx or something... 
Hand out burned copies at olug meetings....

-- Daniel

On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 05:25 PM, William Haisch wrote:

> Hey everyone!
>
> I received my copy of "Freedom Downtime" from 2600 on Thursday. This 
> video
> mainly chronicles the Kevin Mitnick case but touches on the stories of
> Bernie S, XAIL, and Phiber Optik. I thought I knew the facts 
> surrounding the
> Kevin Mitnick trial and his incarceration, but I only knew the mass 
> media's
> misguided accounts. It was interesting to watch rumor and lies convert
> themselves into fact through the repetition inherent in mass media. It 
> is
> offensively shocking to see the judicial system wrangled like a 
> cowering
> bitch when paranoid corporations and overzealous government agencies 
> seek a
> scapegoat to sacrifice in the public arena, all in the name of national
> security and corporate greed. Novell, Sun, and others claimed 
> multi-millions
> in damage (but of course did not provide an itemized list, just 
> outlandish
> numbers.) I believe that hackers are the new catch-all for patching 
> all the
> corporate losses that cannot be explained. If you're not pissed about 
> the
> hacker witch hunt that is currently going on, then you're not paying
> attention and someday your rights will be violated. The reasons for 
> Bernie's
> imprisonment and abuse are cold and ludicris. This is a must-see for 
> anyone,
> regardless of your feelings about security, hackers, or the 
> government. If
> people would like a copy, let me know and we'll work something out 
> (maybe a
> mass dubbing, but I'd have to borrow another VCR, the back says to 
> copy and
> distribute the unaltered video freely). When I finish Kevin's book, 
> "The Art
> of Deception", I'll give another review. Oh, and here's some keywords 
> for
> whatever stupid hyper-paranoid government search engines and databases 
> this
> will be filed into: hacking, anti-patriotism, communism, DMCA, TCA, 
> CIA,
> FBI, 2600, 1984.
>
>
> -Wm.
> ----------
> William Haisch
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