Intel Backed HTML5 Posse Shows Public What HTML5 And CSS3 Can Do

+HTML5  brings hacker evangelists together to showcase what HTML5 and CSS3 can do.  The results are on display on an +Rolling Stone article that digs into government recruitment of hackers.

 , which is financed by  , was started in 2013.  The purpose was to aggregate developers to do salons on HTML5 and other Internet tools.  

The group facilitates projects.  The most notable of which lately has been the online version of the  article "The Geeks On The Frontlines" .  The web version of the article is a nice showcase of what HTML5 can do .  The video effects are particularly slick.  

The lead developer on the article site was  , who is actually featured in the article.  He deserves props.  In the site some of the more advanced CSS3 selectors were used like ":not(:last-of-type){...}".  It is a slick, slick site.  If you are a coder you should check it out.

The article itself, about the government's recruitment of hackers, is particularly relevant with the zeitgeist about privacy versus security today.  The article takes pains to relate some of the "outsider" personalities and characteristics of these (mostly male, mostly light skinned) hackers.  I believe that this feeling of being an outsider helped Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning make the leaps that they made.  Thank the Goddess for outsiders.  The more the government recruits them, the more likely it is that the public will, eventually learn about what Homeland Security and the NSA are doing in the name of U.S. citizens.  

In an interview with Cornell West, Julian Assange speaks to the issue of how the "hacker ethic" is going to make it more difficult for governments to keep secrets from citizens in the future. This part of what Assange discusses in his most recent book, Cypherpunks .

If you did not catch this back in the December issue of   it is worth a relook.