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As it stands now, PETs are the only at least relatively effective safeguard against total surveillance. PETs are thus increasingly threatened by law enforcement Masnick, , and the often legitimate goals to catch PETs-using pedophiles and assassins is in clear conflict with the interest of many others who use the same technologies, the same networks to protect their privacy. There are deeply vested economic and governmental interests to keep the network open for surveillance. If PETs are able to prevent surveillance, then we should expect a long term conflict between the technology-based and the normative and legal based agents for control.

We have already seen similar conflicts in regard to file-sharing technologies, where rights holders have long been trying to delegitimise and outlaw the use of P2P software Giblin, As a response, P2P software developers came up with ever more autonomous systems, which were always able to be one step ahead of any copyright enforcement effort. We should expect and be prepared to deal with policy interventions that aim to delegitimise and outlaw the use of PETs, in a similar manner.

Unless we all have well defined and well protected digital rights, the second best option of PETs is all what we have. Academics and activists should be prepared to defend these technologies, as they seem to be one of the few technologies of freedom De Sola Pool, we are left with. With the fall of Anonymous, the era of hacktivism 1. It is superseded by a much more potent form of hacktivism, which relies on insiders to expose the ways power operates and create a more transparent society. This type of hacktivism, which may be an effective way to control power, relies on easily available military grade PETs to provide anonymity for insiders, making everyone a potential whistleblower.

The same PETs and the same anonymity, however, allow for another type of hacktivism, which, rather than being locked in a diametric relationship with power aims to create its own autonomy through avoiding surveillance. Which type of hacktivism is more relevant for the future? It depends on our answer to the question of how to be truly free in the age of ubiquitous surveillance. If we think that it is enough to put the observers under surveillance, then the Wikileaks introduced hacktivism 2.

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However, Galloway and Thacker , p. If we agree, then negating this control is not to gather data on the observers - which is nothing more than being engaged in the oppositional symmetrical power relationships, but to be what anonymous really means: invisible. Invisible in its strictest sense: being beyond the determinations that define the identity and the discourse. The function of hiding behind a mask, in this context only makes sense if rather than all of us hiding behind the same Warner Bros. Whatever we think of the right course of action, both types of civic activism depend on the easy availability of strong Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

Software technologies, such as PETs or P2P file sharing software are created in the niches between the actual, the potential and the desired. They are the products of particular social, political, economic conditions and reflect the opportunities, the threats, and most importantly the perceived failures and deficiencies in and around the contexts in which they are born. Technologies enable the emergence of new and unexpected social practices, which in turn become subject of interpretation in multiple discursive contexts.

Its easy availability for everyone is based on the understanding that secret communication is best hidden in the noise created by others communicating in secret. Allowing individuals to negate control may not have been the primary aim of providing governmental funding to, or the primary goal of the development of PETs. But now, lacking any other effective legal or political protection of human rights and other constitutionally protected freedoms, we rely on PETs to have at least a modicum of privacy.

This situation is far from being ideal, but currently this is the best we can hope for. For this reason it is essential that PETs be protected from efforts of delegitimisation and illegalisation.

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PETs may come with the cost of giving up considerable amounts of security. But this has always been the price for freedom. In a previous version of this article the launch of Wikileaks was accidentally dated to This was a mistake. Encyclopedia Dramatica ED is an open wiki collecting internet memes and providing satirical commentary on current events.

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Its tone and subject matter is closely related to the online subcultures with which the Anonymous movement is often associated. It hosts one of the several manifestos attributed to and descriptions of the Anonymous group. The ED article on the topic should be considered collaboratively written and edited by anonymous individuals who feel related to the group, and as such, it is probably as good of a self-definition as one can get. It is designed to force inmates to adjust their own behaviour to what they believe is expected from them by the invisible observers in the watchtower.


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