1 The Hacker Ethic: Germany’s Chaos Computer Club and the Genealogy of the Hacker Ethos
Getting to the Chaos Commmunication Camp
First-Wave Europe: The Early Development of European Hacker Culture in the 1970s and 1980s
The Early Days of the Chaos Computer Club
1989: A Watershed Year for Germany and the CCC
First Impressions: Be Excellent to Each Other
2 The Hacker Challenge: Cypherpunks on the Electronic Frontier
Third-Wave Hackers: The Cypherpunks
Fellow Travelers, Reluctant Heroes, and the Cryptowars of the 1990s
3 A Manifesto for the Twenty-first Century: Privacy for the Weak, Transparency for the Powerful
Code Is Law, and the Onion Router Proves It
A Manifesto for the Twenty-first Century and the Concept of Popular Sovereignty
4 The Burden of Security: The Challenges for the Ordinary User
Berlin: City of Freedom, City of Exiles
5 Democracy in Cyberspace: First, the Governance Problems
Internet Governance: “Loraxes Who Speak for the Trees”
What Is Democracy? Or How to Govern Democratically in a World That Is No Longer Flat?
Hacker Governance: Noisy Square
6 Culture Clash: Hermes and the Italian HackingTeam
7 Democracy in Cyberspace: Then the Design Problems
The Problem of Provable Security
The Problem of Designing Privacy-Preserving Protocols
Remaking the Internet for the Twenty-first Century
A New Digital Era Civics Is Necessary
The New Trust-Busting Wars and the Unsustainability of Current Digital Capitalism
9 Hacker Occupy: Bringing Occupy into Cyberspace and the Digital Era
A Multitude of Diverse Experiments
Hacking Experiments Using Federated Technology, or the Basic Internet Structure
Hacking Experiments Using P2P Distributed Technology
Hacking Experiments Using the Blockchain
10 Distributed Democracy: Experiments in Spain, Italy, and Canada
Getting Control of Democratic Processes: The Indignant of Barcelona
Hacking Corruption: Xnet’s 15MpaRato
Hazte Banquero (Become a Banker)
Maddish: Platforms for the People
Hacking Electoral Politics in Italy: “A New Politics Is Possible”
Hacking Democratic Decision Making Itself: A Canadian Algorithm for Global Democracy
11 The Value and Risk of Transgressive Acts: Corrective Feedback
The Value of Transgressive Acts
The Risk of Transgressive Acts
Where Power Meets Its Limits: The Making of Martyrs
Democratic Constitutionalism as Conversation Leading to Rough Consensus
12 Mainstreaming Hackerdom: A New Condition of Freedom
Libre Planet, the Heart of Free Software
Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation Awards
Pros, Cons, and Disobedience Awards
Harvard and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Enlivening a Moral Imagination