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GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance

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Re: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance

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Post by lotsofmangos »

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry:

    Showerbath of the Patriarchs
    Meat Cutting Machines
    Notre Dame Zoo
    Sports Pharmacy
    Martyrs Provisions
    Translucent Concrete
    Golden Touch Sawmill
    Center for Functional Recuperation
    Saint Anne Ambulance
    Café Fifth Avenue
    Prolonged Volunteers Street
    Family Boarding House in the Garden
    Hotel of Strangers
    Wild Street
And the swimming pool on the Street of Little Girls. And the police station on Rendezvous Street. The medical-surgical clinic and the free placement center on the Quai des Orfèvres. The artificial flowers on Sun Street. The Castle Cellars Hotel, the Ocean Bar and the Coming and Going Café. The Hotel of the Epoch.

And the strange statue of Dr. Philippe Pinel, benefactor of the insane, fading in the last evenings of summer. Exploring Paris.

And you, forgotten, your memories ravaged by all the consternations of two hemispheres, stranded in the Red Cellars of Pali-Kao, without music and without geography, no longer setting out for the hacienda where the roots think of the child and where the wine is finished off with fables from an old almanac. That’s all over. You’ll never see the hacienda. It doesn’t exist.

The hacienda must be built.

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Chtcheglov.htm

Re: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance

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Post by koenigdavidmj »

lotsofmangos wrote: post #2

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk bi…

...what?

Re: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance

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Post by [deleted] »

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #3
lotsofmangos wrote: post #2

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk bi…

...what?

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Re: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance

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Post by ganeumann »

e40 wrote: post #6

Disturbingly, the HACIENDA system actually hijacks civilian computers to do some of its dirty work, allowing it to leach computing resources and cover its tracks. Yeah, that is disturbing, and it should be made illegal.

I think it's already illegal.

Re: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance

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Post by ErikRogneby »

lotsofmangos wrote: post #2

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk bi…

I think a room full of monkeys wrote this.
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