Hactivism itself is not much different than physical forms of protest. It’s creating a mild inconvenience for a large corporation accompanied by a message of “we don’t like what you’re doing”, like when the infamous group Anonymous crashed PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard’s websites for not supporting donations to Wikileaks ( 472 more words
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Julian Assange Interview
Hey folks, here’s an interview with Julian Assange at the Bendigo Writers Festival (Victoria, Australia) last night. It’s a good interview but it was just starting to get going when it had to be reined in. 307 more words
#DNCLeaks Fallout Shows Wikileaks = #Journalism
By @anarchyroll
What is journalism? What does it mean to be a journalist in 2016?
What is journalism in the era of media conglomeration… 496 more words
stoking the fire of the anxieties/paranoia of an online era: mr.robot, "hacktivism" & stuxnet
Last night I finished writing a paper for class around 12am and given the fact that I had woken up at 12:30pm that day I figured I still had a few hours to kill before going to bed. 2,109 more words
Azerbaijani Hackers Deface NATO-Armenia, Embassy Websites in 40 Countries
The cyber war between Anti-Armenia Team from Azerbaijan and The Monte Melkonian Cyber Army (MMCA) from Armenia is getting more sophisticated with every passing day. Last month the MMCA leaked sensitive data from Azerbaijan Ministry servers and in reply, the Azerbaijani hackers have come up with a huge cyber attack in which top Armenian government websites have been hacked. 275 more words
Hactivists unmasked over BBC website collapse on New Year's Eve 2015
“New World Hacking” finally claimed responsibility two days into 2016, following the attack on the BBC website which was a relatively common Distributed Denial of Service (“DDoS”) cyber attack. 325 more words
BBC, Trump attacks "just the start," says hacktivist group
NEW YORK — The group that claimed responsibility for taking down the BBC’s global website last week has said the attack was “just the start.” 472 more words
