So, I found an interesting blog, what is full of awesome
things about this phenomenon. For example, the Introduction to BlackNet, a
fiction what somehow seems to be fuckin' real. I want it to be real.
Here, let me copy it:
Introduction to BlackNet
Your name has come to our attention. We have reason to
believe you may be interested in the products and services our new organization,
BlackNet, has to offer.
BlackNet is in the business of buying, selling, trading, and
otherwise dealing with informationin all its many forms.
We buy and sell information using public key cryptosystems
with essentially perfect security for our customers. Unless you tell us who you
are (please don’t!) or inadvertently reveal information which provides clues,
we have no way of identifying you, nor you us.
Our location in physical space is unimportant. Our location
in cyberspace is all that matters. Our primary address is the PGP key location:
„BlackNet <nowhere@cyberspace.nil>” and we can be contacted (preferably
through a chain of anonymous remailers) by encrypting a message to our public
key (contained below) and depositing this message in one of the several
locations in cyberspace we monitor. Currently, we monitor the following
locations: alt.extropians, alt.fan.david-sternlight, and the „Cypherpunks”
mailing list.
BlackNet is nominally nondideological, but considers
nation-states, export laws, patent laws, national security considerations and
the like to be relics of the pre-cyberspace era. Export and patent laws are
often used to explicity project national power and imperialist, colonialist
state fascism. BlackNet believes it is solely the responsibility of a secret
holder to keep that secret—not the responsibilty of the State, or of us, or of
anyone else who may come into possession of that secret. If a secret’s worth
having, it’s worth protecting.
BlackNet is currently building its information inventory. We
are interested in information in the following areas, though any other juicy
stuff is always welcome. „If you think it’s valuable, offer it to us first.”
• trade
secrets, processes, production methods (esp. in semiconductors)
• nanotechnology
and related techniques (esp. the Merkle sleeve bearing)
• chemical
manufacturing and rational drug design (esp. fullerines and protein folding)
• new
product plans, from children’s toys to cruise missiles (anything on „3DO”?)
• business
intelligence, mergers, buyouts, rumors
BlackNet can make anonymous deposits to the bank account of
your choice, where local banking laws permit, can mail cash directly (you
assume the risk of theft or seizure), or can credit you in „CryptoCredits,” the
internal currency of BlackNet (which you then might use to buy _other_
information and have it encrypted to your special public key and posted in
public place).
If you are interested, do NOT attempt to contact us directly
(you’ll be wasting your time), and do NOT post anything that contains your
name, your e-mail address, etc. Rather, compose your message, encrypt it with
the public key of BlackNet (included below), and use an anonymous remailer
chain of one or more links to post this encrypted, anonymized message in one of
the locations listed (more will be added later). Be sure to describe what you
are selling, what value you think it has, your payment terms, and, of course, a
special public key (NOT the one you use in your ordinary business, of course!)
that we can use to get back in touch with you. Then watch the same public
spaces for a reply.
(With these remailers, local PGP encryption within the
remailers, the use of special public keys, and the public postings of the
encrypted messages, a secure, two-way, untraceable, and fully anonymous channel
has been opened between the customer and BlackNet. This is the key to
BlackNet.)
A more complete tutorial on using BlackNet will soon appear,
in plaintext form, in certain locations in cyberspace.
Join us in this revolutionary—and profitable—venture.
BlackNet <nowhere@cyberspace.nil>
——-BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK——- Version: 2.2
mQA9Ai1bN6oAAAEBgM98haqmu+pqkoqkr95iMmBTNgb+iL54kUJCoBSOrT0Rqsmz
KHcVaQ+p4vLIWlrRawAFEbQgQmxhY2tOZXQ8bm93aGVyZUBjeWJlcnNwYWNlLm5p bD4= =yOMI
——-END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK——-
It is simply cool. Very fuckin' cool.
And the reality of massive data archiving:
http://archive.org/
What can I say? I must start improving my IT skills. I have
to find a way, to join to the uprising Cyberpunk community.
Rykov - out
BN's really self-aware, the very definition of cyberpunk (or at least the Éjfél kapitány-esque "it's happening today" theory) is in their introduction. Dunno how genuine this could be (my best bet it's some viral marketing for a movie or a game), but the people behind it sure as hell know their sci-fi stuff.
ReplyDeleteAaaah, it's so bad that I hotlinked most of the pictures from imageshack, and had not uploaded them to the website/blog storage, some of these would look really cool.
Also, the pictures on Gecko's blog are so nostalgic. No HD, not instagram crap, just pure photos, taken by phones or cheap cameras. Shit man, I'm getting nostalgic about pics of other people having fun.