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One man's dream: A $5 M. eco-hacker colony, with farms, stores and 'sleeping pods,' in a busy Brooklyn district
A few months ago, tech guy Sean Auriti noticed a triangular fenced-in parking lot around the corner from the Graham Avenue L stop. Before long, he was sending emails to friends on hackerspace email lists announcing his plan to buy the lot and construct a fully operational hacker ecosystem. More
(2)Author Andy Greenberg on his new Wikileaks book, Julian Assange, and the history of hacktivism
For Andy Greenberg, author of the new book This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileaks, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World’s Information, Julian Assange is only one aspect of the larger story he’s interested in telling. That story is the history of information leaking, from the Pentagon Papers to the dozens of “leak”-named organizations that have sprung up in the wake of Wikileaks, including Britileaks, Indoleaks, Frenchleaks, and Porn Wikileaks. Greenberg, a staff writer for Forbes who conducted one of the earliest in-person interviews with Assange, delves into the life and motivations of the mercurial white-haired Australian. More
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