When he arrived in Paris , saying he was a communist , Lucio Urtubia , Navarre mason nearly bankrupting the U.S. bank Citibank in the 70 after faking 200,000 travelers checks to finance the armed struggle of various leftist movements in Latin America, its colleagues, including Albert Camus and André Breton, he was told that he was an anarchist , "I did not know ."
Today , the global village is full of criptoanarquistas who have probably never heard of a word for a minority ideology , however , is behind some of the most important milestones in the recent history of the network, since bitcoin and drug haven in cyberspace , Silk Road , through Wikileaks and Edward Snowden case , until the rise of the transmission of files using P2P and its most popular manifestation , piracy , in this case outside the law.
Like any ideology , there are good and bad criptoanarquistas . However, it is interesting to see how everyone is being persecuted for various reasons, in some cases rightly so. In others, political, he is producing a hunting brujasEn a recent interview in Wired Patrick Byrne, the messiah of bitcoin , CEO of Overstock , one of the largest retailers in the world of criptomoneda , with annual sales of 1.3 billion , the editor Cade Metz launched a similar approach to that found in Paris Uturbia Lucio : " it's probably a criptoanarquista , but still do not know ."
The black market is reprehensible Silk Road , but the monetary system based on bitcoin on which is founded not , and neither are the objectives of Wikileaks. The same applies in the case of the distribution of copies protected copyrighted , criminal activity , on the contrary that the legitimate file transfer peer to peer networks.
Like any ideology , there are good and bad criptoanarquistas. However, it is interesting to see how everyone is being persecuted, in some cases for political reasons, in pursuit of a witch hunt characterized by abuse of power.
real consequences
The origin of criptoanarquismo is virtual, but it is not an unrealistic phenomenon . The consequences of actions inspired by this ideology have very real consequences : keyborard away from , as they refer to real life hacker slang . Just ask Ross Ulbrich , criptoanarquista manual : the perfect child who created a drug empire on the Internet now faces a life sentence , charged with four counts related to drug trafficking and money laundering .
The trial of the founders of The Pirate Bay, the most popular torrent search engine in the world, has been one of the most important developments in recent years in Sweden . Each was sentenced to a year in jail and a fine of 905,000 million. His statements during the trial , many collected in the documentary released by The Pirate Bay last year, no waste : a relentless show contempt for the rules of the system , beyond the mainstream style of Kim Dot Com.
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg , co-founder of The Pirate Svartholm Warg BayGottfrid , co-founder of The Pirate Bay
Currently, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg , one of the founders , is in custody in Denmark accused of a crime of hacking for attacking a company that housed police records , including those for driver's licenses and numbers personal identification.
While Edward Snowden remains hidden in Russia , a nation that has been granted a temporary political asylum Julian Assange on Monday completed 600 days held at the Embassy of Ecuador in United UnidoPor Meanwhile, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, criptoanarquistas political profile , abandorados freedom of expression and the protection of privacy on the Internet against Big Brother , have not fared much better . While the U.S. remains hidden in Russia , a nation that has been granted temporary asylum , and Australia met last Monday 600 days held at the Embassy of Ecuador in the UK, where he fled to avoid being extradited to Sweden and then to the U.S..
Their stories are the best known , but the recent history of the internet is full of criptoanarquistas that ended badly . If instead of separately observing the facts , draw a map of the most important cases of hacktivism in recent years to see the profile of its protagonists share criptoanarquismo pattern .
For example , the case of British journalist Barrett Brown , who last January 24 met 500 days locked up in a federal prison, awaiting a trial that will begin in September for having denounced the Team Themis project , revealing the links between private security companies and the U.S. government . Or Aaron Swartz , the young hacktivist who committed suicide under mysterious circumstances in 2013 after being arrested for publishing secret documents from MIT and the Federal Court of the United States.
From theory to practice
Like any ideology, criptoanarquismo has its own manifesto . In this case, the Cyphernomicon , a text published in 1994 by Timothy C. May, although there are several updates , the latest 2011. This document defines criptoanarquismo rescuing given by the American science fiction writer Vernor Vinge , who describes him as the embodiment of anarcho-capitalism cyberspace , an ideology more historical journey meaning .
In essence , the ideology of criptoanarquismo defends freedom of the individual in the network, advocating the use of any cryptographic tool to avoid interference of justice or the state.
Ross Ulbrich , now in jail for creating a drug empire in Silk RoadRoss Ulbrich , now in jail for creating a drug empire in Silk Road
The bitcoin ( and other virtual currencies ) is , for now, the Sistine Chapel criptoanarquismo . His emergence has generated realities unthinkable five years ago , since the founding of a real country in Japan that has adopted bitcoin as a basis of its financial system to the installation of ATMs at street bitcoin . More importantly, a market worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Indeed, one of the last confessed criptoanarquistas associated with firearms . His name is Cody Wilson , but is best known for creating Liberator , gun reproduced with a 3D printer whose planes spread freely in the Tor anonymity network REDLA , where it operates Silk Road, is another great criptoanarquista work. Originally , its objectives have to do with defending the privacy of users in their online communications, but it is true that the deep web , perhaps because the average user is not technically ready for use , has been taken by including the dissemination child pornography and trafficking of drugs or weapons. In any case , had never been so many applications based on cryptography to protect user privacy . And the future of the world depends on a technology with cryptographic applications : quantum computing.
One of the last confessed criptoanarquistas is also related to firearms . His name is Cody Wilson , but is best known for creating Liberator , gun reproduced with a 3D printer whose planes spread freely in the network. Considered by Wired magazine as one of the fifteen most dangerous people in the world system , in 2013 launched a bitcoin wallet.
If we talk about P2P , piracy represents the end of criptoanarquismo in the field of free movement of information. Against this trend, worldwide there is an emerging ecosystem of startups based on this technology are capturing part of the business in traditional sectors such as banking, field which features a Spanish pop company Kantox specializing in transfer rates for peer to peer .
Towards ciberutopismo
Shares of cyber espionage NSA and other electronic armies of the first powers of the world would be a kind of criptoanarquismo of State, both of which have defected Edward Snowden as the soldier Bradley Manning , head of the biggest leak in the history of United USA .
In the case of Wikileaks, the platform advocated by Baltasar Garzón is also related to the ciberutopismo , close to criptoanarquismo in the field of individual liberty ideology and open information . His ideology is less individualistic , relying on the joint action of civil society on the Internet . In fact, ciberutopismo is present in the media social movements in recent years , from the Arab Spring , to the Spanish March 15 movement , to Occupy Wall Street U.S. .
In Spain , the X Party, launched last year , also fits within this ideological trend that sees state management through the participation of citizens in government decisions by telematic means. If criptoanarquista thought developed in the underground network channels , the ciberutopismo , there are reminiscences of the origin of the Zapatista movement , owes its success to the boom of social networks .
It seems that the system does not fear ciberutopismo . His most annoying actions , echoing in the real world , such as spontaneous demonstrations are easy to disable through preventive laws , the style of the new Public Safety Act is being debated in Spain , and has already earned the label of law gag for its imposition of a system of fines , also on the Internet .
The scariest criptoanarquismo is unpredictable because it depends on the technique and touches the heart of the system. As the ten point declaration of independence of cyberspace says another criptoanarquista classic, written in 1996 to protest the Telecommunications Act in the United States : "There is no matter Our identities have no bodies , so , unlike you . we can not obtain order by physical coercion. "
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