Posts by Craig Young
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I think we all seem to agree about the importance of opposing asset sales, but I have major problems with the policy priorities and tactics of Labour, the Greens and CTU in this context, particularly the flawed citizens referendum tactic:
http://www.gaynz.com/blogs/redqueen/?p=611
Why not actively work on a capital gains tax as the preferable alternative policy?
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I think the issue is that hacktivism can be useful as long as it is arguably in the public interest and involves an ethical commitment to democratic and corporate accountability and transparency that forestalls potential and tangible harm to the life and safety of others. However, not all hacker activity has that ethical basis.
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Um, namesake, I believe you're referring to the Nuremberg Files incident in 2000, in which a US anti-abortion terrorist group called for 'justifiable homicide' of abortion providers and then published personal details online- whereupon these personal details were used to assassinate some of them. However, the details were derrived from public register data, openly accessible to the public- which raises questions of its own.
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Here's a quite popular recent blog of mine on the issues involved...
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Given your comments about this Leighton Smith creature, Russell, I'm glad that 'it' is restricted to Auckland, thankfully. If I were disability rights organisations, I'd target advertisers on his programme segment until the idiot in question makes a public apology for his latest idiotic outburst.
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Hacker politics is an interesting subject*. Some hacktivism is clearly ethical in tone (ie Wikileaks) and encourages corporate and governmental accountability, which enhances democratic depth. On the other hand, I've yet to witness the sort of hacktivism that disables possible threats to privacy and individual freedom like CCTV and other surveillance technologies, especially in places like authoritarian societies with grossly impaired human rights and civil liberties. Some hackers seem to merely be cybervandals.
*Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown comes recommended...
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Ah. Nasty old Oz right-wing ratbag Bruce Ruxton has shuffled off this mortal coil, at eighty-five.
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Thank Gaia most of my immediate family shifted off to Brisbania. There's only a solitary uncle left down there now, in Darfield. Hope he's okay...
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Off to spend the solstice with my partner's family and him in Wairarapa, back on deck in the new year...
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I'd like to propose 'ghost jobs', as in the content of the Prime Monster's phantom 'recovery.'....