Daily Reading: The Blast Shack

Wikileaks, neo-cypherpunks, and the death of diplomacy. Bruce Sterling deconstructs the whole sordid affair along with the philosophies and personalities behind it. And he gets it—this is about old-school hackers with views on privacy and freedom from 20 years ago (eons in Internet time) trying to hack society as if it were just a baroque, but poorly defended, computer system. And look what happened.