![my voice is my passport verify](https://d17oy1vhnax1f7.cloudfront.net/items/3b0C3w3U1d10061v3e1B/my-voice-is-my-passport-verify.gif)

until of course, it’s not.. . 

i feel like our voices on the internet are our global passport verify now and with open ledgers like the blockchain we can verified, authenticated and tracked. it’s good on one hand, maybe bad on another.

sneakers is one of my favourite ‘hacker’ style films, of course it’s watered down for the average daily audience but the format, styling and creative approach to the problem solving, backdoor, trashing concept of information retrieval is absolutely spot on. it’s a film very dear to my heart.

in my younger years i remember thinking i was a hacker, downloading files from bbs boards about how to get root access on the supervisor account on novell networks, giving me access to the modem on that machine and making it look like the head of security was ringing a swedish bulletin board regularly. at that the time i had every rainbow colour of 3.5” floppy and i would regularly download and fill every 1.4meg disk, i would walk home to the train station with over fifty floppy disks of ‘new wares’ - mainly .nfo files and things i could train on other bulletin board systems so i could ‘make the ratio’

i remember the day i went to tandy (radio shack in the us) to get myself a tone dialer to try blue boxing (inspired by lots of 2600 material) and get free phone calls, it was a nightmare back then with modems being incredibly slow to function and sometimes line by line retrieval. it still felt that i was privy to something new emerging. it feels the same here with steam and i’m excited to share my lifes legacy and journey, i have so many stories to share.

the blockchain brings back that feeling all over again, although this time we are trading time, trust and authentic connection to the information that bonds us.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers\_(1992\_film)]

sneakers felt very much like me and my friend, subwolf. i’m not sure who played which character, i kinda feel that i was robert redford with the ethical hacking company and subwolf (cosmo) was the information power hungry, aggrieved friend who felt like i snitched when the cops arrested him in the opening scenes of the film.

in my early twenties i ran a bulletin board system called fun-de-mental and rob ran a site called suburban lair. we were two bbs owners living in a town of 68k people, the weird thing was at first we never knew each other existed. rob gave me my first real email address on efnet even if it took two weeks to traverse all the bulletin board systems to get there. my email address was hella long. it’s a long time since then, lots of things changed. he had a stroke, our friendship suffered, life changed.

there is this amazing scene near the end of the film which still rings true today, cosmo is working for mafia style connections and he gestures to marty (redford) to come into his glass room to discuss things, cosmo fires off a question and we have this back and forth between them.  the topics, responses and points made then in 1992 hold true today.

> money allows the bad people to do bad things at the expense of those that don’t have it (or something like that, it was profound regardless)

at seventeen years old i was listening to analog mobile phone calls via an rs232 cable connected to a motorola 6800x phone, it was a profound moment also, i was listening to people, zero privacy, i was a fly on the wall. it was the first time i realised we had no privacy, it would concrete all my future learnings and interaction with anything digital and the web.

maybe now is the time to open up and have some authentic discussion?

i hope we can have that conversation.

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