Ethics

Ethics/Mission Statement

• Be Excellent To Each Other
• Party On, Dude!
• Freedom, freedom at last!
• Question commonly held (but un*legitimized) concepts of corporate and personal property (tetsu)
  • restrictive measures on game consoles, purchased electronics.
• Give People New Senses / Open People's Eyes
  • get people used to traffic sniffing, just for fun, because it's there. infared illumination/capture (systems of), public data sources, exploration (UE), smtp is anonymous?
    • Consider hackerspace a hostile network (ala DEFCON, etc.), better tunnel everything via SSH!
• Break down people's fears of 'getting caught' (especially when they're doing nothing wrong)
• Implore people to develop their own philosophies
• Embrace the exploration of electronics and systems
• Legitimize some activities
  • some activities are only questionably legal because there's no institution behind to substantiate it.
• Improve John Doe Security
  • large corporations have manuals and protocols for password management and encryption. There is no 'IRL field manual to computer security'.
• Make amends with the press (but keep them on their toes)
• A place where your ideas and personal productivity are respected, necessary, and not profit*driven
• A place for alternative ideas
• A place to keep kids (who would otherwise be breaking into other peoples' systems) out of trouble
• A place to prepare for the defense of America during the upcoming Cyber Wars with China, Israel, and N Korea (we could write a book too, huha)
• A place to blatantly accept racial, religious, and political diversity.
• To look cool sometimes.
• 'Youth Club'
• Work towards solving big problems with tech, green energy, humanitarian crisis, etc.