Thursday, June 26, 2008

Dark Moments: A day to remember


Taken during the flashflood at Iloilo City (June 21, 2008).

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Segment II: The Messages

2130H, Dark Spot

"Disconnect... now!"

the message was clear... someone has been monitoring us... even the neutral ones... they don't really want strangers prying on them... witnesses, they say... it's their nature... multiple connection site, signals bouncing from one address to another... no system logs, everything nuked after an assembly... anounymous conferences...

it seemed to a normal person that this things are only fiction... a pigment of imagination... stuff that can only be seen in pocket novels and sci-fi mystery movies.. these things are actually being used now, as they have been used before... ciphers and puzzles embeded on news stories, crosswod puzzles and even those sad orbituaries...

with computers, they used anonymous chat channels, webpages,.. special links stored on tiny icons, sometimes even on a dot... with the advent of social networking and blogging, their communication tools grew wider... anonymous comments, description pages and blogs... using a customized interface to access such a blog, they would decrypt any hidden message... even reply using an anonymous comment, with an encrypted message hidden of course...

but this people are not from any government... not from any intelligence agency, either... perhaps, an industrialist company wanting domination... but overwhat?.. the internet?.. but, how?.. and most importantly, why?

i need answers... i have to go back... got to log on to the system...

i logged in thru a backdoor connection... and monitored a sequence of jumps thru multiple address... it's them... a meeting is about to commence... i will only be 'listening'... i need to stay neutral...

"Be careful..."

whoa! where did that message come from... the screen blanked and then the message appeared from nowhere... were they really that fast... the connection was severed... this might have been a trap...

and then my mobile rang... who might this be... no number... caller unknown... but i've got to know... i need to answer... they say, "curiousity killed the cat"... got to be carefull next time... i got to answer the call...

*click...

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Insights: Hackers

This is our world now...
The world of the electron and the switch...
The beauty of the baud...

We exist without nationality,
skin color or religious bias...

You wage wars, murder, cheat...
And believe its for your own good...
Yet, we are the criminals...

Yes, I am a criminal...
My crime is that of curiosity...

I am a hacker...
You may stop me...
But you can't stop as all...

- HACKERS, 1980s (Hacker Manifesto, The Mentor)

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Genesis: The Question

2000H, Dark Spot

currently trying to log on to the system… I’ve been thinking of creating a journal… it’s been a while that I haven’t made a log of everything… or anything… my initial reason was it could be used against me… and for whatever reason, I have evaded doing so for a couple of years… but now something has come up… I have to make my existence later be known… be remembered… I have to reach out… as they say, “learn from [your] mistakes”…

the splash screen was up… I’m already in… keying my account, it led to my dashboard… but I don’t really know where to start… I really don’t know if it was a wise decision… but I know I have to go public, it was the safest side I could be… I wouldn’t have done it until I realized I was already looking at the effects of the System… I really wanted to remain neutral,… but then after what happened, I really had no choice…

what are they really in to… who employed them… and now, why are they being hunted…

the email notifier beeped… an incoming message… back to reality now… to my drak spot … I may not know everything now… sooner or later… only time will tell…

Sunday, June 1, 2008

In the beginning...

Without form, and void... Darkness upon the face of the deep... and then... there was light.