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For twenty-five years, an Italian hacker collective has built
communications infrastructure designed to survive censorship,
surveillance and police raids. On August 26, the United States
designated it a terrorist organization. On September 25, the
wind-down period ends.

It should have been a dark and stormy night in an Italian hacklab.

It was, annoyingly, a beautiful sunny Sunday.

On March 3, 2001, roughly ten people gathered at the LOA hacklab in
Milan around a computer assembled from discarded machinery. A bank had
sold them an old server for the symbolic price of 15,000 lire, about
eight dollars. They expanded it with scavenged components, including
a hard drive pulled from someonerCOs home computer. Nobody arrived with
a formal blueprint. Software packages were considered one at a time.
Every decision was discussed until everyone agreed. Deliberately, the
least technically experienced person was placed at the keyboard. The
process took far longer than necessary because efficiency was not the
only objective. Everyone was supposed to understand what they were
building. That day, one participant later recalled, was when they
declared: rCLA/I now exists.rCY

They named the machine Paranoia. The following month it went online,
carrying two domains and two intertwined histories: Autistici.org and Inventati.org. Twenty-five years later, on August 26, 2026, the United
States designated Autistici/Inventati a Specially Designated Global
Terrorist and placed it on the Specially Designated Nationals and
Blocked Persons list.

For more on this visit (Warning: Bright white screen read, take proper measures):

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25/
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