/cyb/ - cyberpunk and cybersecurity

because punk these days is a style. We don't care much about style, we care about hacking n soykaf

I like to think that the punk in Cyberpunk represents the DIY attitude of the punk community, the aesthetic freedom, and willing to stand up for ones own values especially when standing against the crowd.

Cyberweenies nowadays don't even have balls to steal from megacorps, or to spit in the face of the oppressive society we are forced to live in. They would rather stay in the comfort of their parents basement and pretend that RPing on a mongolese goat herding forum counts a form of cyberpunk. They are deserving of neither the punk nor the cyber name.

>>4138
Where are you from? At least here in the us theres not much oppressing going on.

>>4139
I'm not talking politically. Constantly slaving away at a daily job making other people richer while being forced to live off their almighty genoristy. Bombarded from all sides with advertising and data collection essentially prostituting yourself for no gain. Being bullied and tossed around by the thought police both in meatspace and cyberspace. Its suffocating.

There is no punk in a cyber world. Computer entire lives are control orriented. You may feel reaching for freedom in the concrete abstraction it presents you, but really all we have done is take that feeling of our bodies feeling like prisons and make a world out of it. We have seen ourselces falsely, under this gentle artifical light keeping the shadow of this good jight away.

Technology is our greatest thrive for comfort, to escape death through in-between worlds. It's the ultimate slavery to the idea of a monotheist God. A world created by only one species. Us. A place where we are omniscient and omnipotent and where we can lash out and fantasies without ever looking someone in the eyes, or having our skin gracefully touched by the ever unseen wind.

Maybe it's time to look at at the discoveries of the later century for what they are. The purest offspring to our degenerative state of mind.

Btw, check out How To Talk to Girls at Parties. Beam movie.

>>4138
>Cyberweenies nowadays don't even have balls to steal from megacorps, or to spit in the face of the oppressive society we are forced to live in.
People with the capability to effectively rebel against the system are typically smart enough to figure out how to profit from it instead. So obviously anyone who fails at the latter can't do the former.

>>4143
That's far from true, at every level.
Some people where not given the possibility to profit from it. Some people who did turned against it. Some people, when confronted to the choice, turned down the profiting option. Some people use their profit to fund and nourish their rebellion, whether it is gathering funds, having a convincing front or infiltration/information gathering.

>>4149
Put another way, if you're not smart enough to understand how the system works and exploit it, you are not smart enough to destroy it. That's why the "cyberweenies" >>4138 talks about are so common and ineffective.

Those who are smart enough to (truly) understand how the system works and still try to destroy it are a minority and typically inhibited by some kind of mental problems e.g. autism.

>>4152
This binary baseless reasoning sound like the take of someone who observe the situation from behind his computer and never spent time with and between communities and groups of activists/revolutionaries/etc.

>>4137 op here:
Yeah, ok. I agree with this guy.