We are big fans of Marshall McLuhan here at SlowCity.ca, he was a man of and ahead of his time. The timeliness continues with a Salon taking place at the Appel Salon at the branch in Yorkville. Matthew Ingram, a writer at Fortune magazine, Mark Surman, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation and Gabriella Coleman, an expert on Anonymous, will host an open forum on the very timely subject of hacking, leaks and breaches and the role the new medium of the Internet, plays in all of this. Its free.

Outlaw tactics. Vigilante justice. Website defacement. Data dumps. In this golden age of whistleblowing and leaking, Anonymous has displayed a knack for fomenting controversy and drawing attention to its actions due to their reliance on these unconventional forms of Internet-based political dissent.