# Reposted from here. I am a n00b just learning about things, but I found this to be inspiring and informative – something I want to revisit often in the months to come. Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one […]
“Linux is a beautiful operating system,” said P, a kindly tech trainer with gray hair from the UK, “because it is held together by our trust in each other.” We sat together in a workshop on email encryption – Thunderbird, to Enigmail, via Seahorse. The registration of public and private keys. Sharing keys in our […]
‘[We] are all chimeras, theorised and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism: in short, we are cyborgs. This cyborg is our ontology: it gives us our politics. This is an argument for pleasure in the confusion of boundaries and for responsibility in their construction’ Donna Haraway, ‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the […]