Kejahatan Cyber dan Masyarakat [1]

Pengetahuan dalam Internet

Dalam  jaman modern ini, kita menyadari bahwa informasi adalah semacam mata uang, kita berkomunikasi dengan siapa saja dengan maksud untuk mendapatkan dan berbagi pengetahuan. Dengan cara lain dapat kita katakan bagaimana masyarakat menciptakan pengetahuan dan memurnikan bangunan pengetahuan yang telah mereka bentuk.


pada gambar di atas menggambarkan bagaimana pengetahuan diciptakan dan secara berkelanjutan senantiasa dimurnikan dalam internet. Onno W. Purbo, menggambarkan prosesnya seperti tergambar di atas.
Ruang global dalam internet membuat kita mungkin untuk berbagi pengetahuan secara global pula, kemudian pengetahuan akan mengambil posisinya secara publik. Hal ini bisa menjadi suatu topik diskusi, atau dalam kesempatan lain hal ini akan menjadi sebuah bahan bacaan dalam grup jejaring sosial. Kemudian melalui ruang-ruang tersebut, pengetahuan berkali-kali diterapkan oleh berbagai pihak atau pun individu-individu yang terhubung dengan konten tersebut. Beberapa mengkritisi dan beberapa hanya menerapkannya, atau beberapa yang lain hanya membacanya sebagai informasi.
Dengan cara berselancar di internet orang mendapatkan pengetahuan darinya, mereka mengumpulkan banyak keterhubungan yang saling berhubungan satu sama lain, dan mereka mengatur serta mengemas pengetahuan-pengetahuan baru, dengan kemasan baru tersebut seseorang dapat berbagi (menyebarkan) ke dalam jaringan internet, maka mereka pun menerbitkan pengetahuan. Dan secara berkelanjutan pengetahuan ini akan mendapat umpan balik sebagai revisi atau anjuran, dengan beginilah pengetahuan menemukan jalannya untuk diverifikasi. Konsep baru pada bagaimana pengetahuan diciptakan kemudian berkembang sangat cepat dengan memanfaatkan internet sebagai jalannya.
Pengetahuan (informasi, dalam istilah umum) adalah kekuatan dalam cyberspace, dengan banyak alasan, untuk menjadi 'well-informed' dalam era digital bisa menjadi salah satu alasan untuk melanggar pagar keamanan dari suatu sistem. Orang mulai mencuri informasi, politik dan kerumitannya bisa menjadi dorongan kuat bagi rakyat.
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Indonesian Hacker Communities: Social art Communities

Talking about hacker communities, it can be so much various. Media opinions which read by public already created public mindset about hacker community. Hacker community is not merely a kind of arrogant-cybersmart persons collection into a single space, it can be a collective senses of social behavior of their real life ('real', to differ with 'cyber'). What the social community do in cyberspace, can imagined as percipitation presentation of their social life art.
We call art to any perspectives that explain their own complexity, and those complexity shown to us as a simple view, a simple imagined view. and so on 'hacker' terminology is not easily to explain, we can find a writer define hacker with his/her own definition, differently from another writer.
we can find much hacker ethics spread out in much websites and cyber community forums, every hacker seed morality in their own community, then by this their community maintain themself. ethics make individuals feel comfort, as long as the morality trigger of community spirit kept by every member, kept constant in its aim and main conception of community design.
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Hacker: Subculture in the Cyberworld [2]

Douglas Thomas explained that hacker more precise to mentioned as 'subculture', the culture that bonded with two sides, parental culture, and at the same time characterized to against the parental culture. subculture identified with their unstableness, constant changes in meaning and how the meaning created.
subculture style, then, about identified special objects of cultural semiotics and then take its position back by opposite, to show the refusal from main discourses and for construct a new discourse about re-posititioning, and re-articulate objects. no wonder, the main location of subculture identity is young culture. culture against every authorities.
Dick Hebdige, in analyse the construction of subculture with psychological approach, interested. he said that, this kind culture arise dominantly at the ages of transition, from the space of parental authority to personal responsibilities, which need more self-decision of the young, springed-up as a kind of rebellion and sometimes against nature law--of their environment. and sometimes look criminal alike.

If men cannot refer to common values, which they all separately recognize, then man is incomprehensible to man. The rebel demands that these values should be clearly recognized as part of himself because he knows or suspects that, without them, crime and disorder would reign in the world. An act of rebellion seems to him like a demand for clarity and unity. The most elementary rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration to order (Rebel, Albert Camus. 1974: 29)

while, research which done with enough scrutinized like what have done by Emmanuel Goldstein (2008: 66) with his writings in hacker popular journal, '2600'. Goldstein has special closeness with hacker world, by his space in 2600. whatever Goldstein did in his researches, can be differed from other observers who only watch hacker society and their lifestyle via medias--movies, or even news reports. just as Douglas Thomas (2002: 141) have said before, that much understandings about hacker world via medias, with the images by the opinions, are much distorted.
so, good approach in research about hacker community is to reach special closeness with the community or hackers themself, authoritative and true conception about personals or society only can be reach by a touch of involvement. and once more, hackers are artists, its not easy to get well communicate with artist, you have to find their true sense of art.

Hacker: Subculture in the Cyberworld [1]

Hackers

Hacker terminology raised since the beginning of 1960's among members of students of Tech Model Railroad Club in Artificial Intelegent of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). the word 'hacker' came first with the positive meaning to mention someone who have special ability in computer and skilled to creat computer program better than the program created before in a team.
in reality, hackers are people who love to play with toys. whenever there is a new toy in telecommunication at his/her time, s/he interested to do something to that 'toy' as soon as possible. Emmanuel Goldstein narated historical backgrounds of america's modern telecommunication technologies, with the role of hackers in testing and checking weaknesses of those technologies. and by this ability they did much in upgrading technologies's abilities.
about underground movement in cyberspace we can find in 'Phrack' and '2600'. however its hard to separate between concept of hacker and images of hacker in the public space.
As a young culture, hackers continuesly look for ways to deny autorities and oppose every images and definitions about them.

"Understanding hackers of today necessitates a basic understanding of the history of the subculture that preceded them and of how, traditionally, subcultures have functioned to resist dominant cultural interpretations of them" (Douglas Thomas, 2002: 141)

cybercrime and society [3]

Internet: Cyberspace Community

Onno W. Purbo explained that, internet often associated with web, define as site in cyberworld where informations placed and accessible for everyone. web characteristic generally pasif and waiting visitors to visit it to find the or take information that they need. when the web being accessed, visitor interacting with the web server and data base run behind. clearly, the pattern of interaction like this is very inhuman for the most internet users.
watching the social sphere of the cyberspace will be strategic by watching profiles and characteristic of communities in the cyberspace. as imagination, from the content analysis of the cybercommunity we can easily identify mass concentration, mass leader, mass movement, to the best technic for apply penetration into the mass, and to know the public senses especially internet users.
even the contents of the community in the printed media and cybermedia generally shaped by the public sense about something, like about football, cooking, politic, law, and many others. but, there are some additional points of the cybercommunity content compared with the printed media content. in cybermedia content, content built and resulted directly by the society or readers themself. in printed media, the rule of editorial staffs is important to guessing and analyzing what the public/readers really want, and this surely cant reach 100% of the truth sense of readers, just analyses and prediction.
cybercommunities really closely related with the specific topics shared by the community, and the making is not personally, it made by the same sense about something.
study about cybercrime will be more specific if it focused to hackers communities. because in these communities, discussions about cybersecurity and much anticipations towards its weakness is the common interest. we can say that, this is the place where black sides and white sides meets almost alltime. sharing knowledge, technics, and how to practice. hacking is learning by doing.

cybercrime and society [2]

Understanding the Social Structure in Cybersociety

the social structure of the cybersociety tied up with the function of every social agent within, and in the cyberspace functions related with every one in every level of social structure. first, personal skill, which related with the technical instruments in cyberspace, like ability in computer programing language or internet based abilities applied in the browser. second, ability to seeking and exploit weak-links, and use them for their own benefits.
the first and second abilities are better integrated in a skilled person. both are useful for security mantain in the net. they'll be abilities to grow the system and seek the weakness, then the skilled person have ability to patch the bugs of the system. more over, by keep watching others web (for example), skilled person will mantain his/her empathy to help others to solve their problem. and in public space there are so much problems spreaded everywhere. skill in seeking and fixing the weak or the leakages of system-security will get sharpened everytime s/he try to solve the problem. then the results will be: a goodness for everyone.
Social Structure in cyberspace can be applied to them who have ability to make interaction in the cyberspace. like the explanation of 'public sphere' of Habermas of his study in bourgeois society, at least the ability of cyber experts can be define as the another concept of 'bourgeois' in information age. the power of information can be the same worth of the authority of spaces in the real world.
by studying bourgeois society in the 'Public Sphere' of Habermas, the equal in authorities of public sectors founded in authorities of information sources and ability to hack for gaining the access or sometimes, for how to manipulate. but the different is, in the bourgeois society there is less ability to access and ability to control directly the social space itself. while in cyber society, they who can be define as the master of cyber technology possible to manage spaces for public who use and interact in those spaces. one by one, or once time remotely for many. and possible to manage system (platform) by their technical ability and the mastery of the mechanism of the cyberspace, in/under their control sight.
we see how wealth (of information) really have broader power in the cyberspace.

cybercrime and society [1]

Knowledge in the net

In this modern age, we realised that information is the currency, we communicate with others by the passion to gain and share knowledge. in other way we can see how society creat knowledge and purify the knowledge they'v built.

the image show us how knowledge created and continuesly always being purified in the internet. Onno W. Purbo, an Indonesian information technology expert, drew the process like that.
Global space in the net make us possible to share globally knowledge, then the knowledge will take position in public. It can be a topic in discussion, or another chance it will be a reading material in a social networking group. then through these spaces, knowledge many times been applied by some others individuals who got connection to the content. some criticised and some just apply, or some others just read it as information.
by surfing people gain knowledge from the net, they collect much relationalities that related one another, than they manage and package the new knowledge, by this new package people can share (disseminate) to the net, they publish the knowledge. and continuesly this knowledge will get feed backs as revisions or suggestions, by this knowledge found the way to be verified. the new concept on how knowledges are created is growing ver fast in the internet.
knowledge (information, in general term) is power in the cyberspace, by much reasons, to be 'well-informed' in the digital age can be the reason to trespass the security-fence of the system. people began to steal information. politics and its intricates can be the strong power for people.
first, politic can manipulate datas which the true datas safed to undercover the reality, by this hack the system and steal 'secret' informations then spread (disseminate) to public can be the share of people right to know. secondly, politic and its intricates can make a dirty games to steal information from one agency by another to make a profit in leading the information or to well-tricky to the enemy.
first and the second style are can be done by the 'people' or 'government', big or small. with the reason to win, conquer, cheat, well informed (this one can be the positive reason than the others), or others. how ever the praxis are same, by stealing. most justice have the simple meaning as 'balance' there is not included religious intense about sins or karmas to scrutinize justice in practices. seems like we life in the cheatful era, by the ages. like this is human nature to survive.
but anyhow, the wild of the nature law (which replied in the reality in cyberspace), is not the only way to discuss about it's chaotic situation in cyberworld. i am more agree if we discuss it in the vision of enlightenment, the spirit of consciousnes of being (even man keep in dinamic 'become') of the human, spirit of modernity. the spirit that positively face the society created in objectivities, with purposive movement. this will make conception, that how the positive-law is possible to rule the cyberspace.
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