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[ The Decline of The Swedish Underground ] [ By Dare Devil Show ]
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THE DECLINE OF THE SWEDISH UNDERGROUND
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as presented by DARE DEVIL SHOW
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for the uXu electronic magazine
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The title is lying, to a certain extent. This file does not really deal with
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the decline of the Swedish digital underground, because the real underground
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has not declined (it cannot, by definition, decline - if it did, it would
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not be the real underground anymore, but something else). Amateurs and
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newbies are not, and will never be, welcome to the underground. If they try
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to enter, they will be stopped. The 'public' underground (which is not to be
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confused with the 'real' underground) however, has always been a sorry
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sight. But even though it has been mostly harmless (and sometimes even
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funny), the public underground has nowadays expanded to the extent that
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it is a threat to not only to common sense but also to the Internet itself,
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in Sweden. In this file, I will briefly explain why I believe that to be
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the case.
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Nowadays, the Swedish underground is ruled by one magazine: FNA ('Flashback
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News Agency'). This electronic magazine (together with its WWW site) claims
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not only to be the HQ of the Swedish underground but also of the whole
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Scandinavia (which means that it also includes Norway, Denmark, Finland and
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Iceland). FNA releases a new issue around every two weeks, and it is filled
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with news which is supposed to interest those people who are involved in the
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underground. It also carries a lot of trix for H/P/A. It has several thousand
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subscribers, and its editor can be seen and heard on television and radio
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shows dedicated to the Internet culture.
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It is not hard to realize that FNA is a contradiction in terms: something
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that is 'underground' is not supposed to be available for everyone. But FNA
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is available for everyone. Of course, there is a real underground in effect,
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but FNA has no access to it (thank god - if the staff of FNA knew what went
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on in the real underground, they would become pretty amazed - it is not the
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usual mumbo-jumbo, that FNA is used to). Due to this, one would sometimes
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like to thank FNA for its existence. The magazine draws away the attention
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from the real underground to the 'public' childish underground news that the
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magazine spreads all over the country.
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Certainly, it is also possible to become quite depressed over the fact
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that the public Swedish digital underground has no pride at all. The
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so-called H/P/A tips'n trix that are spread are painfully outdated (or
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generally quite worthless), and the 'news' concerning the underground are
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childish beyond belief. FNA loves, for example, to publish tips on how to
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call without paying from phone boots that does not exist anymore, or just
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old H/P/A files that could be found on Interpol I, Interpol II or Project
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Athena last decade (of course, FNA does not give any credits to the real
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inventors of these files). The underground 'news' in question mostly contains
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information that could be read in the morning paper several days ago, or
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found at a public library.
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This ought not to disturb oneself for more than a few seconds. Ignorance
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has always ruled the amateurs; nothing new; we have seen it all before.
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If one does not mind, the life in the real underground can be quite
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comfortable anyway. One need not to read FNA if one does not want to. But,
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unfortunately, it is impossible to just sneer at the magazine and forget it.
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FNA has grown big, so big that it has obtained power. Power to change
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things. Power to teach the population that the digital underground is not
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something that can be seen as irrelevant. FNA has got the power, but no
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knowledge. FNA constantly misuses its power by spreading amateur opinions
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(as we all know an 'opinion' need not to be based upon any form of knowledge)
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concerning the importance of the underground. Due to this, FNA is not only a
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threat to common sense, the underground, but also to the whole Internet and
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its digital culture.
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The reason for this lies in the basic fact that FNA is regarded, in
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public, as The King of The Underground. The concept 'underground' in the
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digital world bears a special quality: it is the place where one will find
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the nomenclature of the trade, i.e. 'the best'. Therefore, when answers
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are needed, the public (media mostly) turns to the underground. Since FNA is
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The Underground, FNA is supposed to be the holy god ('the best') with
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answers to everything concerning the political and social aspects of the
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Internet. Naturally, FNA accepts this humble label without shame. But
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unfortunately, they are seldom able to give any good answers. Their lack
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of knowledge is their worst enemy. However, since the public is even more
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ignorant concerning the Internet culture, they will regard the answers as
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good, on the border to perfect ones anyway. There is no need for further
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analysis. FNA knows it all, so why debate anything they say? (It is, however,
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possible to find pathetic attempts to debate the Internet (not FNA) in a more
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serious fashion, in such papers as Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet and
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InterNet Guiden, but the embarrassing writers all fail due to the same
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reason: lack of knowledge, lack of experience. I will not get into this
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subject much further since it has already been thoroughly explained in the
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uXu file 'The Internet Hysteria' (UXU-238)).
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Internet is still, even though it is the year 1996, something that is
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somewhat abstract to most people. 'How does it work?' 'What is it good for?'
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'Who rules the Internet?' Such questions are not hard to answer, if one owns
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precious knowledge in the subject. Unfortunately, those who are given the
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chance to answer the questions have, as said, often serious defects in their
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knowledge. One could live with that. It is harder to live with the more
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annoying part: Questions of real importance, such as 'Ought someone control
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the Internet?' or (even worse) 'How are we to control the Internet?' are
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also answered by the amateurs of the net.
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If one deals with a trade of importance, and lets an amateur make up
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the rules and modus operandi for this trade, what will happen? It will fail,
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of course. Big time. What if FNA is chosen to save the Internet from its
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oncoming doom (state control and moral intervention)? It will fail. Big
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time. Unfortunately, FNA is actually the chosen one, and the future looks
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even darker than before. Amateurs will lead amateurs, and Internet will fall
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into the hands of the dumb, deaf and blind.
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We have reached the end of this file. But if you still do not believe any of
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the above arguments or claims, consult IRC channels #hack.se and #phreak.se
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for empirical proofs (if you are able to get any good answers out of the
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people there, you are not lucky - you are dreaming). IRC channel #flashback
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(FNA's place) offers pimpled kids who try to get laid via the Internet
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(nothing new, indeed) mixed with confused political activists who shout out
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their latest misunderstandings. Naturally, you will also find the usual
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wanna-be hacker who boasts about operations that has never taken place in
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any other world than his own.
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Yes, it is a sad sight; but it is the underground for the masses. And it
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is on its way to conquer the world. Plebs eris, indeed.
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uXu #350 Underground eXperts United 1996 uXu #350
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