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While I agree with your assertion that a state of anarchy introduced by force (technical or otherwise) in a relatively stable democracy would be nightmarish, I

While I agree with your assertion that a state of anarchy introduced by force (technical or otherwise) in a relatively stable democracy would be nightmarish, I suspect that's going to be the thrust of season 2. The activists leveraged some technical know-how and swashbuckling intrusions to bring down a big bank's systems, but the opening episodes of season 2 point to a mobilization of the democratic government forces to restore order by force. They didn't create anarchy by destroying the source of financial truth, they handed the keys to democracy to the very conglomerate they attempted to take down. The series was supposed to have been composed as a three-act movie originally, and it'll be interesting to see how it unfolds moving forward in the second act.

nxzero 10y ago
>> "they handed the keys to democracy to the very conglomerate they attempted to take down" Maybe, did you catch White Rose's fire side chat at the end of season one? Who is handing the keys to who in season two?
- breatheoften 10y ago
  White rose is fascinating -- his obsession with time comes across to me as a very insightful attribute to associate with a hacker in a Confucian oriented society -- I wonder if social hacking a great harmony society would tend to involve a lot of precise timing attacks. And the name is great -- perhaps referring to the anti-nazi protest movement in Munich -- a subtle reference to an existence proof for the possibility that a "hacker movement" could be deemed "correct" to oppose the existing paradigm in which its embedded. And it's great that he's Chinese -- we are so conditioned in the west to think of "Chinese hackers" as only and always state sponsored black hats. How strange that preconception given how noble a calling we should perceive there to be for "hackers" operating domestically in China -- to tweak at what we perceive as an often overly authoritarian regime. It made me feel a startling lack of examples in western media of "good guy" Chinese hackers. The realization has me always looking to find ways to try to establish trust with the white rose character. Not sure if he should have it, but I hope he is revealed to deserve it.

nxzero 10y ago

>> "they handed the keys to democracy to the very conglomerate they attempted to take down" Maybe, did you catch White Rose's fire side chat at the end of season one? Who is handing the keys to who in season two?

breatheoften 10y ago
White rose is fascinating -- his obsession with time comes across to me as a very insightful attribute to associate with a hacker in a Confucian oriented society -- I wonder if social hacking a great harmony society would tend to involve a lot of precise timing attacks. And the name is great -- perhaps referring to the anti-nazi protest movement in Munich -- a subtle reference to an existence proof for the possibility that a "hacker movement" could be deemed "correct" to oppose the existing paradigm in which its embedded. And it's great that he's Chinese -- we are so conditioned in the west to think of "Chinese hackers" as only and always state sponsored black hats. How strange that preconception given how noble a calling we should perceive there to be for "hackers" operating domestically in China -- to tweak at what we perceive as an often overly authoritarian regime. It made me feel a startling lack of examples in western media of "good guy" Chinese hackers. The realization has me always looking to find ways to try to establish trust with the white rose character. Not sure if he should have it, but I hope he is revealed to deserve it.