With dramatically growing hacker and leaker activity paralleling the revolutionary upheavals around the world, we are increasingly hearing the rhetoric of "cyberwar" thrown around by governments attempting to maintain legitimacy and exercise more police-state powers. In talking about the FBI's priorities ten years after 9/11, FBI director Robert Mueller stated in a recent speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police(IACP) conference that "the next threat will be cyber-based ... self-radicalized individuals using online resources and individuals planning cyber attacks" [21]. Although hackers made a mockery of Mueller and the IACP during the conference by defacing their websites, it is hard to believe that hackers are a bigger threat than the "terrorists". Still, this logic is being used to send many more billions of dollars into white hat pockets at private military and intelligence contracted corporations to develop better defensive and offensive technology. The US is also proposing several changes to the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, providing increased sentences (including mandantory minimums) as well as RICO Act classifications for computer hacking. For the most part, the increased hacker busts have largely targeted small-time defacers and DDoS kids allegedly affiliated with Anonymous - hardly the "foreign terrorist threat to critical infrastructure" used to justify the proposed increased penalties for hackers and increased cashflow to the security industry. But there's more than small timers at play: attacks against high profile institutions including law enforcement, military and corporate targets have escalated, becoming both more destructive as well as more politically articulate. We're experiencing the opening stages of the next Hacker Class War, and with many factions at play each operating with their own agenda and strategies, with more and more hackers breaking into shit for the rev or selling out to the military intelligence industrial complex, the question is asked "which side are you on"?

Las Farc instó a que la VI Cumbre de las Américas en Cartagena trate "temas prioritarios" en la región como el embargo a Cuba, el reclamo de Argentina sobre las islas Malvinas y la solución al conflicto armado colombiano, a través de un comunicado divulgado este sábado en Internet.