Cyberpunk Philosophy

Some cyberpunks also tried to define or 'hack out' as they like to say a more comprehensive philosophy which became famous under the ten commandments, but is not true for all cyberpunks:

The 'Hacker Ethic' "Attack anything that tries to hide information from

the masses"

Rebel against harmful or oppressive authority

Screw everyone but your friends

Never trust anyone

Style over substance, blue meat and machine

Anti-totalitarianism; anarchy preferred

Striving for a moral and spiritual utopian 'enlightened depotism'

Related to Post Modernism Movement

Democracy does not really figure in (individual not mass dictatorship)

Striving for 'freedom' as either personal dependence or independence from or on

technology

Through all of these commandments and formulas, the cyberpunks have stayed in its form of socail organization which is a very chaotic and loose network of individuals. Although there is some solidarity between them, cyberpunks and its subgroups share knowledge, software, and so on, continues to be full of contradictions and inner fights.

For instance, Cypherpunks seem to do the total opposite of Crackers, they try to protect information and therefore create a private sphere. Radical crackers want every kind of information even private info to be free. Although or even because their common belief, solidarity and a common direction seem not to be an easy thing for cyberpunks.

The Secret Servic view the computer underground as 'a loose confederation of criminal organizations' and in fact many crackers and phreaks can for sure be seen as just criminals, cracking systems for the matter of money or just for fun.