Aaron Swartz Saves the Internet [AU]

by VeniaSilente

Summary:

A silly piece I wrote for no other purpose than demoing a new work skin on AO3. Also a cautionary tale for the world we could have had but didn't, and about the hero we needed but we didn't deserve.
EDIT: not related to the Farcebook outages! (AFAIK)

Notes:

For maximum enjoyment it is recommended you have installed any of the fonts supported in the Venia's Terminals skin. You can choose among others:

• DEC-style VT323 from 101fonts
• IBM-like IBM VGA 9×16 from int10h's archives
• Terminus Fonts

Any of these may also be installable from the package manager in Linux systems.

In a parallel universe...

  
# sshnuke 0.0.0.0 --rootpw='Sw4rtZ+P0wnZ'
Attempting to exploit SSHv1 CRC32 ... successful.
Resetting root password to 'Sw4rtZ+P0wnZ'.
System open: Access level <10>

# ssh 0.0.0.0 -l root
root@Intertubes's password: 

root# find /etc/services/IP/nodes -type f -cgroup 'GAFAM' -exec xargs -I '{}' /usr/sbin/sysintertubes -c 'disable grid nodes' -l -- {} \+

Warning: Disabling GAFAM nodes will help free the internet.

ARE YOU SURE? (y/n) y

Initiating shutdown...

Disconnecting node Amazon [amazonvideo.com] ...
Disconnecting node Amazon [amazon.*] ...
Disconnecting node Amazon [petametrics.com] ...
Disconnecting node Amazon [content-ad.net] ...
Disconnecting node Amazon [tvsquared.com] ...
Disconnecting node Apple [apple-dns.cn] ...
Disconnecting node Apple [apple.com] ...
Disconnecting node Apple [metrics.icloud.com] ...
Disconnecting node Facebook [instagram.com] ...
Disconnecting node Facebook [facebook.com] ...
Disconnecting node Facebook [fb.com] ...
Disconnecting node Facebook [meta.com] ...
Disconnecting node Facebook [whatsapp.com] ...
Disconnecting node Facebook [whatsapp.com----m.com] ...
Disconnecting node Facebook [whatsapp.net] ...
Disconnecting node Google [gmail.com] ...
Disconnecting node Google [google.com] ...
Disconnecting node Google [googlevideo.com] ...
Disconnecting node Google [recaptcha.net] ...
Disconnecting node Microsoft [adnxs.com] ...
Disconnecting node Microsoft [be-legal.ru] ...
Disconnecting node Microsoft [bing.com] ...
Disconnecting node Microsoft [eugrantadvisor.com] ...
Disconnecting node Microsoft [live.*] ...
Disconnecting node Microsoft [microsoft.*] ...
Disconnecting node Microsoft [skype.*] ...

Done. The Internet is now more Free.

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