"The year 1984 gets a red-letter write up in technology lore not for delivering on George Orwell's prophesized Big Brother, but for the arrival of the small, underground 'zine, 2600. Seventeen years since it began, http://www.2600.com/ remains a focal point of a subculture hated and feared by Microsoft, the military and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Although there have been other publications catering to hackers -- most notably the more aggressive and arguably more technical online zine, Phrack -- 2600 stands as the only print publication openly and unapologetically catering to hackers."



http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11251"

Stop the G8: Online Demonstration Scheduled

Stop the G8 is a new website dedicated to the international struggle against
the G8, WTO and all other major neo-liberal, capitalist institutions around
the world.

"A large group of individuals in the Global
Internet Community have set out to bring attention to the communications
monitoring system known as ECHELON."

Two years ago, when this idea was launched, the existence of ECHELON was
denied by all of the participating agencies. Now with the recent issuing of
the report by the "Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System"
its existence and invasive practices are no longer in doubt.

We are urging all persons who utilize any form of global communication to
inform their circle of friends regarding ECHELON and its monitoring of all
email, telephone and fax communications in Europe. Along with this we are
urging the inclusion of as many 'trigger words' within those communications
as possible.

To this end, we have established a primary web site at:
http://cipherwar.com/echelon and numerous mirror sites around the world to
help educate people about ECHELON and what it really means to the Global
community at large.