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Welcome to issue 10.5 of Hack This Zine.This article was originally going to be included in issue 10 butit was so good (and so long) that we felt like it stood on its own.So we present to you issue 10.5 of Hack This Zine: How To MakeFriends With Volcanoes.

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Capitalismis run on in-formation systems. Computernetworks track and link prod-ucts, components, resources,and people into the global hy-

dra known as the just-in-timeeconomy. We who work in theindustry are all implicated inthe perpetuation of this system,even as we struggle against it.We use our skills for competingpurposes, to enrich the pow-

erful and empower those whowould put an end to power.

Recently though, a new ally hassurfaced- the earth itself. Theeruption in Iceland and earth-quakes in Chile and Haiti have

revealed cracks in the just-in-time economy. Capitalism is asunprepared for the vagaries ofnature as it is for the needs ofhumanity. Eyjafjallajokull hasgiven us hope and set us think-ing- what is our place in the

struggle? How can we clog theengines? Can we build boatsto float below the cloud? Andwhen the whole mess comesspiraling down, where doesthat leave us, our technicalskills and technical systems?Are they needed, or merely ar-tifacts of advanced capitalism?

Here are some thoughts from afew of us.

Thoughts from Mat.

Without machines well justfuck everything up more slow-ly. The fossil record stretchingback forty thousand years intopre-history is a record of flora

and fauna laid waste by hu-mans. On a geologic time scaleit will hardly matter whetherwe do it with atom bombs oratlases. During the neolithicera we were still destabilizinghill sides, salinating the plains,

silting the rivers, and burningthe forests.

Anti-civ anarchists emphasizea cultural revolution away frompatriarchy and exploitationand towards mutual aid and a

drastically slimmer technologi-cal footprint. But slow, well-intentioned destruction canstill occur, outside the boundsof living memory and knownhistory. I doubt first peoplesof Australia and the Americas

intended to wipe out almostall the mega fauna. The ex-tinctions happened fast. Theytook a few thousand years.Clever minds and dexteroushands allow us to change ourcondition too quickly vis a vis

the rest of our ecology. It isour nature as a species to haveagency that outstrips our un-derstanding and memory. De-struction is now rapid enoughfor all but the most profoundlydeluded people to notice. But

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the end of civilization will notbe the end of destruction.

Up until now, our technologyhas enhanced agency without

any corresponding enhance-ment of memory. I believeInformation technologies arechanging that picture, enhanc-ing memory as well as agency.What if we sought to buildsystems that could record the

state of our world and trackour action within it, so we tru-ly knew what we were doing?What if those systems were de-signed with an eye to the fu-ture, towards a geologic scale?Within a non-exploitive, non-

authoritarian culture, thosememories could guide us awayfrom destruction. I see hopefor such systems, although fewexamples. I wish more (any!)anarchists worked on network-mediated systems of account-

ing and exchange based on realvalue, like soil fertility and bio-diversity.

I dont mean to vindicate in-formation systems from exploi-tive culture. There is much to

loathe about them and theirplace in capitalism. I dontknow what they would look likein the endgame. Certainly notlike they do now, built of rare-earth minerals, running on fos-sil sunshine, and designed only

for experts. But I do see hopeand possibility in there some-where.

Evoltech chimes in:

Tech as we know it isnot sustainable in its currentimplementation. This may ormay not be obvious to you. Thephysical components of hard-ware are mined in a fashionthat is oppressive to indigenous

communities from Appalachiato Chile to China to Iceland.The infrastructure of which (fi-ber lines, telephone lines, datacenters, power plants) are de-structive to the environmentand often responsible for the

displacement of humans andnon-humans alike from theirhomes.

I think many anarchists,hacker or not, see the currentimplementation of infrastruc-

ture around us as inherentlyoppressive, where the mainte-nance of which is protected byforce. Those with money, orthe many other privileges thatare stacked in favor of thosewith more power protected by

force, make decisions basedon their best interests withoutthe consent or thought of thoseit ultimately effects (manifestdestiny: rail roads, roads (goa head call me a primy), thefucking west, world trade, etc).

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With tech this is a bit more ofthe same (GMO, mining of re-sources for hardware, ubiquityand intensity of RF, copyrights,peering agreements, CALEA

support for every segment ofdigital communication, etc).

It may seem that anti-autoritarians would be againstsupporting infrastructure thatenables oppression, but here

there are hackers among us as-sociated under anarchist prin-ciples working with some tech-nologies that are oppressive.This is the problem of trying tofight the system that one livesin from my point of view. I

dont agree with the idea that ifenough people stop supportingoppressive systems that therewill just stop being oppres-sive systems. I do not believe,as Derick Jenson might say inEndgame, that if the Rebel Al-

liance just sent enough goodvibrations to the Death Starthat it would stop consumingplanets. From my point ofview there are many differentstages to an end game for theideal world I would like to live

in, each of which would haveby need varying levels of tech,where the final goal would bean existence with others wherethere was no tech that was notsustainable (implying that anytech acquired by oppressive

force is not sustainable).

In my work with Hack-bloc I am concerned with learn-ing about and creating tools in

the digital realm that defendresistant communities and of-fer them tactically offensiveadvantages. The bulk of defen-sive tools being worked on nowprovide secure and or anony-mous methods for interacting

with others across insecurechannels. Creating our own in-frastructure here (secure mailservers and mailing lists, ano-nymity tools, secure voice andSMS applications, creation ofsecure geographically distrib-

uted, decentralized networksfor comms operators at mobili-zations) is not only possible butit exists and is constantly be-ing improved.

The realm of offensive

security is not as protected asdefensive security. The accep-tance of protecting your ownprivacy is valued and desired.In our society the use of of-fensive security, voice and datamonitoring, signal interception

decryption and jamming, andhost and network intrusion ismonopolized by governmentinstitutions or organizationsprotected by government insti-tutions. This same work can beuseful in our communities and

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there is a wealth of existingtools and developers workingon this angle as well. This of-fensive security could look likea support for other struggles or

could stand on its own tacti-cally.

For me it is all a meansto an end, an end that I willmost likely never see in mylifetime. It is a means that I

contribute to because I can andit keeps my attention. Afterthe rev you will be able to findme down by the river, smokingweeds, building a raft, and hop-ing that I find my old friendsso that we can redefine our re-

lationships.

Flatline talks about theRobocracy:This is all based on a phone in-terview between Evoltech, Mat,and Flatline. Evoltech loves to

tell folk about Flatlines robotendgame scenario where hu-mans finally figure out thatAnarchy works, there is no suchthing as resource scarcity, androbots take care of manual la-bor.

E: Do you remember talkingto me a while back about yourendgame fantasy of a Roboc-racy?F: , Yeah.

E: Great, well thats what we

wanted to talk to you about.F: , Well you caughtme at the right time, Im drunk!I want you to know that was atotal drunken rant, but I think

I can duplicate it.M: For the purposes of this in-terview we were going to haveGoogle translate it (Note: thisnever actually happened, butsupposedly google voice offersa transcription service provid-

ed by robot slave labor), so alltranslations will be done by ro-bots, no corrections. The Ro-bocracy starts now!E: Can you tell us what thevarious stages of the Robocrcylooks like? What does the Ro-

bocracy rev look like and howdoes the endgame pan out?F: Right now we are in thehumble beginnings of the Ro-bocracy. Right now the robotsarent there yet, they arent ableto take over power from the hu-

mans. We have the robots talk-ing to each other; robot phonesare calling other robot phones.Bots on IRC are talking to oth-er bots on IRC. Im actuallygetting more calls from robotsthen from humans.

E: Thats depressing.F: That is depressing. I reallyfeel at this point that robotsare in their infancy. They aretalking to each other, they arebuilding up their world views.At this point they could go in

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any direction, there is moreand more of them everyday.M: This is reminding me; to-day my co-worker was callinga company that had a real sec-

retary and it took her a whileto realize it was a real person,because the secretary had theperfect secretary voice (mim-icking the best secretary voice),Hello you have reached suchand such enterprises, how can I

redirect your call? Mollys im-mediate reaction was that shewas talking with a computer.She realized she was so usedto computer simulations of ahelpful person that an actualhelpful person was inconceiv-

able. At least for 15 secondsinto the call.F: There you go. The majorityof our interactions these days,at least over a computer ortelephone are with robots. Thisis really fascinating I think. We

are creating a whole new societythat will be mostly comprisedof robots. We can use robotsto eliminate work in societywith some sort of combinationof robots and fission power andmassive amounts of recycling,

nobody would have to workagain. At this point I am notso sure that the robots wontthen put us to work for them.Robots arent the endgame ofthe revolution, but robots andAI are changing our society

right now. Robots seemed tobe taking over blue collar jobs,putting together cars, or othertedious manufacturing in theU.S. For a while the idea was

that robots and machines couldtake over those jobs. The own-ers of the industrial complexthought that it was cheaper tofarm those jobs to 3rd worldcountries instead of developingthe technology to do these sorts

of tasks well. Now it seems likerobots have moved into a dif-ferent sector of jobs like tele-marketing and scams; sendingemails.M: I see this with a lot of cleri-cal work. I get bossed around

by robots all the time. Peoplesetting up calendar remindersfor me. I was bossed around bya robot today.F: Its a lot easier to have a ro-bot do clerical work then bluecollar work. Robots are great

at crunching numbers, but theyare not so great that do thingslike vision and hand movement.These are problems that arehard for robots to solve. I thinkthat we are going to see a lot ofrobots as middle management.

E: I have always taken you assomeone who was pro-robocra-cy, but it seems like I am hear-ing that you are against robotsand against the machine.F: No youve got me all wrong.I am for the liberation of robots.

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Right now we have robots occu-pying traditional jobs, mostlyclerical and we are not payingthem anything, robots are ourslaves.

M: But what about the peoplegetting paid to operate the ro-bots? A lot of modern officejobs you are just working for acomputer. You are waiting infront of a monitor or printerwaiting for a new job so that

you can transfer something tosomeone or something else.F: The line between robot andperson is also going to blur. Iwas talking with Amber Caseat toorcamp about cyborg the-ory. I was thinking about the

enormous number of machineswe use on a daily basis and howdependent most people in thefirst world are on various tech-nology.M: Do you think it is infan-talizing us or replacing tasks

we wouldnt otherwise want todo, ie. I never kept a calendaruntil google calendar. I neverkept track of a calendar until itwas on my phone and computerat the same time.F: Me too, and I never remem-

bered to do shit, but I also hada much simpler life and it wasenough that I could keep it allin my head.M: Are we increasingly build-ing a world were we are depen-dent on computers? Are we let-

ting them become our contextfor memory?F: We are. Digital memory cancreate a perfect record of ourworld. Once the robots trans-

late this interview it will befantastic.M: What if we found out thatrobots could not understandthis and people were forced to?

E: What do you feel your roleas a hacker anarchist contrib-utes to the current struggle andwhat is your endgame fantasy?F: I havent been thinking aboutthe endgame. I feel like we areonly at the start of any sort

of insurrection,just the begin-ning, the endgame is very faroff. This is in contrast to howI used to think about this is-sue. I used to feel like we werevery close, but now it seemslike there is a long way ahead

of us. Recently I have been re-evaluating what I feel the mostimportant work is that needsto be done. Right now I thinkthe most important contribu-tion in this vein is education.Technology that most people

in the first world are using ona daily basis is relatively new.Most people here dont see howcurrent tech can be really op-pressive. I think this is all thebeginning of a more culturalrevolution. The world wide

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open journalism and communi-cation that is currently happen-ing is really amazing. The typeof communication we have is ashift from ten years ago. The

cost and ubiquity of communi-cation right now is our biggestadvantage. Along with thiscomes an overload of informa-tion and widespread surveil-lance. Like whats going on inBritain or in the US. This need

for privacy is being forced onpeople as a result. Certain gov-ernments and corporations areof the opinion that privacy isnot important.

Frenzys voice:

I dont see an endgame as any-thing that can be planned. Idont see an endgame as any-thing that anti-authoritarianscan control. I dont see anyend that involves tech infra-structure that will be able to

sustain itself. I think the roleof tech for anti-authoritariansis a complexity that we need tounderstand. We need to figureout how to utilize tech for ourown means. An analogy wouldbe to use the masters tool to

destroy his own house. Therole of hacker anti-authoritari-ans is to understand how thesetools are being used against us,and figure out how to use thisopportunity in front of us tobring about the revolution. My

endgame fantasy is going backto the land, it does not involverobots. I imagine it to be verymad-max esque until the lastresources are gone and we are

forced to go back to the land. Ithink science tells us that somethings can not be done. One ofthese is long term space travelie. sending humans to othergalaxies. I dont see tech takingleaps and bounds allowing us to

live off this planet. With thatconstraint there is a carryingcapacity, a limit to how muchwe can do here, I think we arecoming to that point and is whytech wont be a part of an end-game scenario. It doesnt mat-

ter if you have a factory that isworker owned and operated, orsome green business, it is thatyou have those factories andthat stuff is being produced.The existence of a factory is aproblem because you are still

utilizing resources, a factoryis going to waste resources nomatter what. Resource extrac-tion is the problem, when youextract pure resources out ofthe environment you makethem into hazardous material

ie oil was plants, in the concen-trated form it is highly danger-ous. I dont see a rev of want,I see one of necessity. Learn-ing about tech is going to bea large part of this. I think aneed to survive will be forced

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on us and the state, the police,the power company, or internetcompanies will not help us. Wewill have to take the off cast ofcivilization, the skeleton of civ-

ilization, and make situationsthat are comfortable, that wecan survive in. This will be outof necessity. Currently the im-portance of learning tech willensure our survival becausethe tech is being used by the

state to oppress, if we do notlearn how to use it for our ownmeans it will be an exclusivelyoppressive agent. I do not seetech being used in an endgamescenario because of its inher-ent oppressiveness. It requires

a certain amount of knowledgethat is not inherent to mostpeoples situations. Basic un-derstanding we can take careof and is necessary for further-ance of revolutionary struggle.My goal is to get through to

anti-authoritarians that tech isnot safe for all situations, it isnot necessary for all situations.When it is safe however weneed to assist with those meth-ods. My role is to offer supportto folk to only use tech when it

is useful. I am very much intoinsurrection, and think this isa important time for hackers inthe anarchist community. Hightech like LRADs will be show-ing up more at protests. Moreresearch needs to be done on

devices like these. Is there away to understand them that wecould create anti-sound, nullifythem, or sabotage them? Theseare questions that need to be

asked and could be workedon by folk interested in thosefields. These tech could be use-ful for our own means.

Ringo says:I think tech is a good thing,

a tool. I know a lot of an-archists diverge on this point.Tools go both ways. Some toolsonly have inherently bad uses.My major concern with tech isthat it is a requirement for or-ganizing and challenging pow-

ers that be. People use tech inscary insecure manners whichis really disheartening for me.Encryption is especially a bigdeal to me. During cointel-pro we saw a lot of misinfor-mation which we can solve now

through public key authentica-tion and signatures. This is avery simple way to determinewhether or not a message hasactually come from the senderand has not been spoofed. Thisis just and example. A lot of

our communications are notauthenticated. We should usetech in a way that is intelligentand not just hand all of our in-formation and communicationsover to authorities via negli-gence. I also think technology

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has some offensive uses but weneed to make sure we knowhow to use them safely beforewe use them.

In my vision of the endgamethere is still technology, com-puters and the internet. I thinkthose are really important tools.They arent made in a way thatis anywhere near ethical rightnow but if we can change the

way production happens for ev-ery other product and serviceto not be hierarchical and op-pressive then we can do thesame with computers and theinternet.

There are a lot of radical law-yers and the way you differen-tiate the ones you can trust isif you ask them if they are alawyer or a part of the move-ment. If they say they are apart of the movement you can

trust them.

I am a member of the move-ment first and hacker second.Hacking is a fun hobby, but Ihate hobbies that dont have apractical application in my life.

Since I am a member of themovement first I use my skillsto enhance the movement. Ithink that you will find in anyother profession will find this,whether lawyers, medics, pro-grammers, etc. I think hacking

(offensive security) has a lot ofpotential, but it is not well ex-ploited right now.

Hacking as a movement itself

for social change is not reallyexploited either. One of thethings I am looking forward toat HOPE is having discussionswith other hackers about whatproductive work can be done asopposed to sitting around and

talking about 0-days all day. Iam interested in hacking as ameans to create something thatis beneficial to someone outsideof yourself. Burning man is agreat example (where folk takeskilled and talented people and

resources out of their com-munities to a remote locationonly accessible to those withmoney and/or time to be de-stroyed as opposed to creatingresources and art within andfor the communities they are

from). Id like to see hackersgo to HOPE and take the skillsand new ideas they learn backto their own communities andbuild things that are useful.Like emergency communica-tion networks and public com-

puter labs. We need to makehacking something that comeswith some social responsibility.

In regards to decentralizationof secure tech services, placeslike riseup.net and gmail are re-

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ally good at what they do, withsmall downtime. But when an-archists talk about how they aregoing to build infrastructure italways starts with decentral-

izing the infrastructure thatcurrently exists. When we talkabout sewage we talk aboutdecentralizing it and havingit be run by communities [4].When we talk about electricitywe talk about building sustain-

able power that can meet theneeds of small communities. Ithink we need to be apply thatsame reasoning to technology.The internet has already beendecentralized, we have alreadyfigured that part out. Im talk-

ing about decentralizing theservices that make the Internetwork; email, file storage, webserving, those sorts of things. Ithink riseup.net is a really goodexperiment, but I have a lot ofissues with it. The first one

being visibility, then sustain-ability. You cant put the entiremovement on the back of oneserver. I think what we needto do is take riseup and decen-tralize it. Make a riseup.net forevery region; the mid west, the

great plains, the south west,etc. Something that offers se-cure email and web hosting,but not just for radicals, but foreveryone. As opening it up willattract less heat. Lets make re-gional specific service provid-

ers.

The small community internetservice providers have failedbecause they are marketing to

anyone who has a computer. Ithink the decentralized serviceproviders I am talking aboutneed to be based on securityeducation. When users of theseservice providers choose themthey will be choosing based

on a desire for secure servicesthese providers will also of-fer education. And also theywouldnt be for profit. In thesame way that we challenge theprofit motives in other infra-structure we need to challenge

the profit motives in internetservice. For an email provideall you need is an internet con-nection, maybe two uplinks forgood uptime. This is a reason-able goal to implement now.

This would also take a lot ofstrain off of folks from from ri-seup who right now are workingfull time on riseup.net who havea lot of useful and interestingskills that could be spread outin their communities. At the

same time I could focus part ofmy time on managing a servicefor Olympia.

I dont think tech is inherentlyoppressive or majority use is forevil. I think it is a tool. I hope

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that the Internet is around af-ter the revolution.

Impact gets in in it: I think that radical hack-

ers are fulfilling a proscribeddialectical role. Regardless ofour vision of the future, oremore importantly, the actual-ity of any future, technologyis here now and its being usedin various ways. Some are neu-

tral, some are good, many arebad. The powerful forces ofthe world have more resources,they can create and implementnew technologies rapidly. Sooften new technologies are im-mediately put into use for the

powerful, which usually meansput into use against the power-less. What that means, is thatthere is always a necessity forthe less powerful to respondin cunning ways to nullify thetechnology of the powerful.

When an ancient empire creat-ed the phalanx, a comparativelyless powerful group developedhorse-born archers capable ofdefeating it. Then that groupbecomes the powerful, andanother group must devise

a means of defeating it. TheUS manufactures advancedassault weapons, the sovietsdevelop mass produced, reli-able Kalashnikovs that can bemade in any third world coun-try a western empire invades

the middle east with rockets,tanks, computerized airplanes,and the locals bury IEDs in theroadway its the way it alwaysworks. We dont really have a

choice in the matter. We cansubvert their technology, or bekilled by it the question is notdo we believe in god, but doesgod believe in us and the an-swer is that only a non-believercould have created our image

of god, and only a false godcould be happy with it

In some ways the inter-net goes against what Im say-ing here as I remember it; theinternet in its early days was

used to its best advantage bythe less powerful teenagers,cyberpunks, etc the powerfulhad no idea how to use it forthemselves; even though theyhad invented it it took a youngset of eyes, to look at it and

figure out its potential so yousaw this wave of cyber punkhackers; the Kevin Mitnicks ofthe world, and the early hackergroups. Somewhere along theline though, the big corpora-tions caught on. They figured

out how to profit off the inter-net. Everything became com-modified. You have this weirdenvironment where the longtime users fight tooth and nailto avoid commodification butits a losing battle. You see this

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with the news outlets for ex-ample. The internet is killingthe newspaper, because newscorporations cant figure outhow to commodify their prod-

uct. Because netizens refuseto pay. But more and more ofthem are locking everythingaway. The same, as when somepowerful folks padlocked thegraineries 12,000 years ago orso. One of the reasons the cor-

porations have been able to doall this, was by co-opting thoseearly pioneers This is sort ofa Daniel Quinn reference whostates that in order to cre-ate the state, you first have tomanufacture scarcity and you

do that by hording all the foodand making folks do what youtell them in order to get some12,000 is just gross speculationon my part it could really belike 20,000 or 30,000.

I think what were look-ing at now, is this situationwhere were kind of startingover as hackers. There was thisopportunity in the early 90s todo something incredible, butthere was no ideology involved

in the work that folks were do-ing, so capitalism was as logi-cal an outcome as any other re-ally. The hackers that are stillaround are really competingwith those other hackers and itmeans that what we need to do

is develop a resistance thathas an ideology embedded in it.

The other thing abouthacking, Im talking more

generally here, and not justabout information systems, isthat its an awesome creativeimpulse Its the same impulsethat I think many of us hadto take our alarm clocks andtoasters apart as kids basically

a demystification of all sorts oftechnology around us, with aneye toward making it different,or better, or even just becauseand so you see these crossovercultures; the maker thing, orsteam punk those are inter-

esting impulses to me, becausethey take the same thought pro-cess out of the tubes. If werethinking about the future, thenI see these hacker impulses asbeing the most relevant to thefuture @-topia because its re-

ally quite optimistic. It acceptspractically nothing as beingimpossible, and the world willneed that. It will need peopleable to stand up and say wecan fix this, we can tinkerwith it until we get it right. I

dont know what the worlds go-ing to look like. If we can keepthe IT systems in tact I donteven know the time line werelooking at. Most technologiesprobably shouldnt be kept intact but well need hackers one

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way or another. The dialecticalcycle will never just go awayits part of who we are, or partof how the universe works orsomething. Maybe Flatline is

right, and well have a roboc-racy. But hackers will need tofigure out how to combat the

Footnotes[1] This article started as a discussion between a few folk about howthe volcanoes in Iceland were really fucking up world trade, maybeeven better then all of the anti-globalization work that was done a num-ber of years back. We started going on about how it would be great ifanarchists could make allies with volcanoes and thought it would bea great time to interview a number of geology professors about thisthinking we could get a Colbert report style interview with them. Intalking with the professors we were reminded of the seriousness of thesituation for marginalized communities. This becomes especially truewith natural disasters where these communities are usually living inareas the are most heavily damaged. The philosophical diversion wehad from the professors we interviewed was were the professors couldnot see how living in sensitive geological / geographic areas is notby choice or lack of education but a result of economic, political, and

military force. This is what brought the discussion home to the role oftech in an actual anarchist struggle.

[3] LRAD (long range acoustic device) is basically just a really loudspeaker made by companies like the LRAD corporation. This is not tobe confused with a device like Sonic nausea which is a small electronicdevice which can really turn ones stomach. It generates a unique com-

bination of ultra-high frequency sound waves which soon leads most inits vicinity to queasiness. It can also cause headaches, intense irrita-tion, sweating, imbalance, nausea, or even vomiting.http://www.lradx.com/site/http://www.selfdefenseproducts.com/Sonic-Nausea-p-17448.html

4] See cloacina.org for an example of how anarchists and hackers areconfronting the state control of human waste for a freer tomorrow.

evil robot empire. Or maybethe primis are right, and theworld wont be able to supportadvanced technologies for muchlonger, in which case well still

need hackers to combat againstthe evil catapult wielding empire.

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