“Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)” , University of Michigan Press, 1995, p106

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. But that on which it has imposed its ephemeral reign, what it hoped to liquidate in order to impose the reign of the Enlightenment, that is, appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism of meaning or of non-meaning itself.

This is where seduction begins.”

Handle these links with care, you’ve been warned:

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• NHD,  hacker folklore

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• Entrevista a Assange en «El País».
• Toward a Taxonomy of Secrets.
• Eco.
• Anonymous.
• 4chan.
• LOIC.
• Tor.
• Liberté.
• P2P DNS then.
• P2P DNS now.
• Ben Laurie.
• History Insurance.
• Wikileaks Leak.
• CIA, Soros, etc.
• OpenLeaks (available december 13th? UPDATE 12/15/2010, still «Coming soon!»).

Go to an esoteric book shop and you’ll find that every book on the shelf (on the Holy Grail, the “mystery” of Rennes-le-Château [a hoax theory concocted to draw tourists to a French town], on the Templars or the Rosicrucians) is a point-by-point rehash of what is already written in older books. And it’s not just because occult authors are averse to doing original research (or don’t know where to look for news about the non-existent), but because those given to the occult only believe what they already know and what corroborates what they’ve already heard.

Umberto Eco

It is not very common to find examples of expert witness’ intervention exposed in such a concise, clear, comprehensive way as the one found here.

I want to make very clear that the opinions and/or positions found in the previous link are not to be bound to my opinions and/or positions and are exclusively linked here for the only purpose to illustrate the procedure, development and disquisitions of expert witnesses in the USA jurisdiction.

The case described in the linked text is not chosen by its substance, but only for adjective factors.