If there is one thing that never ceases to amaze me it is that the hacker community tends to place itself outside and by their own perception above politics. This is evidenced in many ways including ‘safe spaces’ and moratoria on discussing anything political because it has no bearing on the more interesting bits of IT. What bugs me about this is that anything you make or do has a political dimension, and that hackers, more than any other profession, create the tools and the means with wh...
