Operation Payback

Všechno, co se děje v druhé vlně kolem Wikileaks, je neuvěřitelné. Anonops – bezejmenná masa internetových aktivistů – sestřelili EveryDNS, PostFinance, Mastercard, Visu, Paypal – společnosti, které se k WL nezachovali zrovna nejlépe – a vypadá to, že se jenom tak nezastaví a budou i nadále kráčet troskami.

Věci se hýbou velikou rychlostí a všechno se to děje právě tady a právě teď a my jsme toho součástí. To je tak neuvěřitelný pocit. Jako kdybych skutečně žil. Všichni hrajeme svoje party velké hry, která možná dějiny. Tohle je naše válka, hacktivismus, hlas lidu přetvořený do podoby DDoS útoků.

Mimoděk jsem si vybavil jednu scénu z Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:

Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world, whatever it meant. There was madness in any direction at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle. That sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense – we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum. We were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later you can go up a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.