A little thug in a hooded sweatshirt made the Web easy to write, and created a man-in-the-middle attack on human civilization

Disintermediation — the movement of power out of the middle of the net — is a crucial fact about 21st century political economy, says Eben Moglen in a passionate keynote address at the Freedom to Connect conference yesterday. The ability to hack software and hardware ensures that we retain our civil liberties and ability to innovate.

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