This intervention draws from 30 years of hacktivism history to trace possible future for a movement that has found into cryptography its most powerful empowerment opportunity. An old cage is rusting: the billion dollar cybersecurity farce, the trusted computing straitjacket, and the paternalist throne of die-hard cyberemperors.

In the last couple of decades, planetary-scale computation precipitated the ongoing transformation of existing jurisdictions and disciplinary realms, a trend that is both depicted and tackled by the notion of "algorithmic sovereignty". This talk will address such transformations with particular attention to the web3/crypto sphere, and propose practical and strategic solutions to develop a space for "digital commons", to strengthen freedom against new aggressive forms of human exploitation and centralized control.

Determinism underpins our power: we want humans to understand machines and not the contrary. We need new trustless models in cybernetics, to fight back against the supremacy of centralized black-box governance. Our technical challenge is to create deterministic conditions for replicable computation and implement algorithms whose mode of operation can be scientifically proven, communicated with simplicity, forked, and debated. Algorithms of dissent.

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@Jaromil@mastodon.social is a purpose-driven software artisan and hacktivist. Author of the forkbomb virus, dubbed as the most elegant computer code ever written, he is an expert in the politics of technology and doctor in philosophy. Jaromil is the founder of Dyne.org and has a long history in developing and disseminating digital tools for freedom of speech and privacy. For more Info and publications see jaromil.dyne.org

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Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) is the flagship event of Paralelní Polis, which since 2014 has been regularly attended by over 500 fans and IT experts from all over the world. HCPP is held annually in Prague on the first weekend of October. The main thematic pillars of the three-day congress are Freedom & Cryptoanarchy, Decentralized Economics, & Cryptocurrencies, Political Art & Hacking, and Science & Technology.

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Paralelní Polis is a one-­of-­a-­kind nonprofit organization that combines art, social sciences, and modern technologies. The ideas of liberty, independence, innovative thinking, and the development of society are the underlying foundations of the project.

The project intends to remain state-free as it operates entirely without support from the government. Most of the funds come from the voluntary contributions of our donors and partly from commercial activities such as running a unique co­working space and the world’s first bitcoin-­only cafe.

It was founded by members of a contemporary-­art group Ztohoven, and Slovak and Czech hacker­spaces. Its main goal is to promote economic, social, and digital freedom. We try to be a vocal voice of freedom in order to shape the public discourse and ultimately work towards a freer future.

Originally published on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTUKPsRxIPM