_015866 --- PAGE BREAK --- Chapter 8 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015867 --- PAGE BREAK --- ‘All infinities are equal, but some are more equal than others.” George Orwell, paraphrase “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former” Albert Einstein “God gave us the

s a thin, irregularly stapled, photocopied magazine published out on Long Island by a guy who used the nom-de-hack of Emmanuel Goldstein, the hero of George Orwell’s novel 1984. The magazine was called “2600: The Hacker Quarterly” and it offered a compilation of ideas about how to fool around with systems of all s

nary Russians and many Ukrainian consumers of Russian media have told foreign journalists of fears that “fascism” has come to power in Ukraine.*® In George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, the Ministry of Truth advanced what today would be called a re- gime narrative, with accounts of never-ending conflict abroad a