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"One by one, the world's most prominent Web sites are falling to the cyber bullets of Internet
hackers. Unlike in the past, the new breed of electronic intruder has a political agenda."
[Ottawa Citizen]
http://www.zmag.org/Bulletins/e_guerrilas.htm
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Hacktivists or Cyberterrorists? The Changing Media Discourse on Hacking
This paper scrutinizes the language of government reports and news media sources to shed light on
their role in forming a negative image of politically motivated hacking in general, and online
political activism, in particular. It is argued that the mass media's portrayal of hacking
conveniently fits the elite's strategy to form a popular consensus in a way that supports the
elite's crusade under different pretexts to eradicate hacking, an activity that may potentially
threaten the dominant order. [First Monday]
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_10/vegh/index.html
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Hacking for Democracy
Interview with Oxblood Ruffin, founder of Hacktivismo, about the ethics of political hacking. By
Mark Moyes. [Shift]
http://www.shift.com/print/web/396/1.html
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Dissidents Hack Holes in China's New Wall
"Electronic guerrillas breach blocks set up by the government to keep citizens from seeing
unorthodox news and opinions on the Internet." [LA Times]
http://www.gis.net/~cht/dissidents.html
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Kashmir-minded Pakistani 'hacktivists' blitz Web sites
"Since October 1, the two students who make up the Pakistan Hackerz Club have defaced over 40
Web sites, according to a hacking mirror site." [CNN]
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9910/08/pakistani.hack/
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China: The Great Firewall
"The weekend attacks added to the growing number of acts of hacktivism, in which political
activists have used information warfare to protest China's stranglehold on free speech."
[Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16545.html
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Hacking for Human Rights?
Article about the Cult of the Dead Cow, the Hong Kong Blondes, and hacktivism. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/13693.html
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Computer Hacking New Tool of Political Activism
"Ruffin is among a growing group of outlaw programmers determined to make hacking more than
job interviewing as an extreme sport. They are beginning to experiment with the mind-blowing skill
locked in the global network of hackers as a powerful political tool for what Ruffin calls 'human
rights hacking.'" [Toronto Star]
http://www.gis.net/~cht/torontostar.html
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Golden Age of Hacktivism, The
"The Scandinavian crack Saturday was not the work of bored juveniles armed with a Unix
account, a slice of easily compiled code, and a few hours to kill. It advanced a specific political
agenda." [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15129.html
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They Call It Hacktivism
"A few weeks ago, several members of a hacking group called Legions of the Underground
declared an ''electronic war'' against China and Iraq." [Boston Globe]
http://www.gis.net/~cht/hacktivism.html
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Hacktivism: the new protest movement
Article by Hugh Martin about hacktivism, including the attacks on Yahoo, Ebay, and amazon. [spark]
http://www.spark-online.com/april00/trends/martin.html
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