Hack the Planet!

We cannot trust our computers because they have been corrupted to the core. Our mission is to rebuild.

This page describes a new system concept that emphasizes sovereignty and user control; trustless interaction, security, privacy and verifiability; and carefully-minified system complexity for a lean and stable personal computing platform (that doesn't suck).

two hackers got one leg up with a laptop on it, look at each other in determined approval: 'HACK THE PLANET' flashes on the screen in cyber-stylized text

Table of Contents

  1. Scope
    1. Identification
    2. Document overview
    3. System overview
  2. Referenced Documents
  3. Current system or situation
    1. Background, objectives, and scope
    2. Operational policies and constraints
    3. Description of the current system of situation
    4. Modes of operation for the current system or situation
    5. User classes and other involved personnel
    6. Support environment
  4. Justification for and nature of changes
    1. Justification of changes
    2. Description of desired changes
    3. Priorities among changes
    4. Changes considered but not included
  5. Concepts for the proposed system
    1. Background, objectives, and scope
    2. Operational policies and constraints
    3. Description of the proposed system
    4. Modes of operation for the proposed system or situation
    5. User classes and other involved personnel
    6. Support environment
  6. Operational scenarios
  7. Summary of impacts
    1. Operational impacts
    2. Organizational impacts
    3. Impacts during development
  8. Analysis of the proposed system
    1. Summary of improvements
    2. Disadvantages and limitations
    3. Alternatives and trade-offs considered
  9. Notes
  10. Appendices
  11. Glossary
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A montage of scenes from the movie Hackers (1995) where all the characters are saying 'Hack the planet!' One scene shows a personal pager device that reads: 'GRAND CENTRAL HACK THE PLANET.'

You can get on this "internet" and talk to people all over the place...
— Angelina Jolie (Acid Burn), ca. 1994