Coding Democracy by Webb, Maureen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Foreword: There Are Two Kinds of People Author’s Note Acknowledgments 1 The Hacker Ethic: Germany’s Chaos Computer Club and the Genealogy of the Hacker Ethos

2 The Hacker Challenge: Cypherpunks on the Electronic Frontier

Third-Wave Hackers: The Cypherpunks Fellow Travelers, Reluctant Heroes, and the Cryptowars of the 1990s The Smart-Ass Antipodean

Code Is Law, and the Onion Router Proves It WikiLeaks A New Kind of Cypherpunk Snowden A Manifesto for the Twenty-first Century and the Concept of Popular Sovereignty

4 The Burden of Security: The Challenges for the Ordinary User

Security 101 The Sakharovs Berlin: City of Freedom, City of Exiles A Cryptoparty

5 Democracy in Cyberspace: First, the Governance Problems

Harry Internet Governance: “Loraxes Who Speak for the Trees” Harry Redux Of Trees and Tongues 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

The Italian Embassy Black, White, and Gray

7 Democracy in Cyberspace: Then the Design Problems

The Problem of Provable Security The Problem of Designing Privacy-Preserving Protocols Email: A Case in Point Remaking the Internet for the Twenty-first Century

A New Digital Era Civics Is Necessary The New Cryptowars The New Information Wars The New Net Neutrality Wars The New Free Software Wars The New Trust-Busting Wars and the Unsustainability of Current Digital Capitalism The Gathering Storm

9 Hacker Occupy: Bringing Occupy into Cyberspace and the Digital Era

The Occupy Movement 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 Solid? The Blockchain Reality Check “The Next System”

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 PartidoX Homage to Catalonia Hacking Electoral Politics in Italy: “A New Politics Is Possible” Hacking Democratic Decision Making Itself: A Canadian Algorithm for Global Democracy No More Wrecking Balls

11 The Value and Risk of Transgressive Acts: Corrective Feedback

Berlin’s Graffiti The Value of Transgressive Acts The Risk of Transgressive Acts Hacker Crackdown 3.0 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

A City upon a Hill Libre Planet, the Heart of Free Software Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation Awards Pros, Cons, and Disobedience Awards MIT’s Media Lab Harvard and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Emergence Enlivening a Moral Imagination The Epicenter of a Civilization

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