Coding democracy : how hackers are disrupting power, surveillance, and authoritarianism / Maureen Webb ; foreword by Cory Doctorow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Maureen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hacktivism.

Cyberspace--Political aspects.

Cyberspace.

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Computer security.

Democratization.

Physical Description:

xxii, 389 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]

Contents:

1 The Hacker Ethic: Germany's Chaos Computer Club and the Genealogy of the Hacker Ethos p. 1

In Berlin p. 1

Getting to the Chaos Commmumcation Camp p. 2

First-Wave Hackers: Hacking Culture in the US from the Late 1950s, including the Hands-On Imperative and Other Principles of a Hacker Ethos p. 5

Second-Wave Hackers: Computers and Code for the People, including the People's Computer Company, The WELL, Homebrew, Silicon Valley, RMS, and Free Software p. 10

First-Wave Europe: The Early Development of European Hacker Culture in the 1970s and 1980s p. 13

The Early Days of the Chaos Computer Club p. 15

1989: A Watershed Year for Germany and the CCC p. 18

The Fall of the Wall p. 21

The 1990s: Hackerdom Expands, Silicon Valley Takes Off, and a Schism Develops between the Philosophies of Proprietary Software and Free Software p. 22

First Impressions: Be Excellent to Each Other p. 29

2 The Hacker Challenge: Cypherpunks on the Electronic Frontier p. 33

Third-Wave Hackers: The Cypherpunks p. 33

Fellow Travelers, Reluctant Heroes, and the Cryptowars of the 1990s p. 40

The Smart-Ass Antipodean p. 51

3 A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century: Privacy for the Weak, Transparency for the Powerful p. 53

Code Is Law, and the Onion Router Proves It p. 53

WikiLeaks p. 56

A New Kind of Cypherpunk p. 60

Snowden p. 65

A Manifesto for the Twenty-first Century and the Concept of Popular Sovereignty p. 68

The Burden of Security: The Challenges for the Ordinary User p. 71

Security 101 p. 71

The Sakharovs p. 78

Berlin: City of Freedom, City of Exiles p. 79

A Cryptoparty p. 84

5 Democracy in Cyberspace: First, the Governance Problems p. 93

Harry p. 93

Internet Governance: "Loraxes Who Speak for the Trees" p. 95

Harry Redux p. 98

Of Trees and Tongues p. 101

What Is Democracy? Or How to Govern Democratically in a World That Is No Longer Flat? p. 105

Hacker Governance: Noisy Square p. 108

6 Culture Clash: Hermes and the Italian Hackingteam p. 111

The Italian Embassy p. 111

Black, White, and Gray p. 114

7 Democracy in Cyberspace: Then the Design Problems p. 125

The Problem of Provable Security p. 125

The Problem of Designing Privacy-Preserving Protocols p. 127

Email: A Case in Point p. 130

Remaking the Internet for the Twenty-first Century p. 135

8 The Gathering Storm: The New Crypto-And Information and Net Neutrality and Free Software and Trust-Busting-Wars p. 139

A New Digital Era Civics Is Necessary p. 139

The New Cryptowars p. 140

The New Information Wars p. 145

The New Net Neutrality Wars p. 153

The New Free Software Wars p. 157

The New Trust-Busting Wars and the Unsustainability of Current Digital Capitalism p. 164

The Gathering Storm p. 172

9 Hacker Occupy: Bringing Occupy into Cyberspace and the Digital Era p. 175

The Occupy Movement p. 175

A Multitude of Diverse Experiments p. 185

Hacking Experiments Using Federated Technology, or the Basic Internet Structure p. 186

Hacking Experiments Using P2P Distributed Technology p. 191

Hacking Experiments Using the Blockchain p. 194

Solid? p. 198

The Blockchain Reality Check p. 202

"The Next System" p. 204

10 Distributed Democracy: Experiments in Spain, Italy, and Canada p. 207

Getting Control of Democratic Processes: The indignant of Barcelona p. 207

Hacking Corruption: Xnet's 15MpaRato p. 211

Hazte Banquero (Become a Banker) p. 217

Maddish: Platforms for the People p. 220

PartidoX p. 222

Homage to Catalonia p. 230

Hacking Electoral Politics in Italy: "A New Politics Is Possible" p. 233

Hacking Democratic Decision Making Itself: A Canadian Algorithm for Global Democracy p. 243

No More Wrecking Balls p. 247

11 The Value and Risk of Transgressee Acts: Corrective Feedback p. 249

Berlin's Graffiti p. 249

The Value of Transgressive Acts p. 252

The Risk of Transgressive Acts p. 255

Hacker Crackdown 3.0 p. 259

Where Power Meets Its Limits: The Making of Martyrs p. 271

Democratic Constitutionalism as Conversation Leading to Rough Consensus p. 275

12 Mainstreaming Hackerdom: A New Condition of Freedom p. 281

A City upon a Hill p. 281

Libre Planet, the Heart of Free Software p. 284

Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation Awards p. 290

Pros, Cons, and Disobedience Awards p. 292

MIT's Media Lab p. 297

Harvard and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society p. 303

Emergence p. 307

Enlivening a Moral Imagination p. 309

The Epicenter of a Civilization p. 318.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780262043557

0262043556

OCLC:

1099543871