Hacktivism
The hacktivism is a contraction of Hacker and activism. Here technological and political analyzes are simultaneously the knowledge to make. The “hacktivist” infiltrates networks, all kinds of networks, and not only the electronic networks, putting his talent at the service of his political convictions, and organizing operations technological punch : hackings, diversions of waiters, replacement of banner pages by leaflets… Souvent this term implies also a third “art”.
Hacker like virtuoso of technology and political activist that one generally finds in the fights Libertaire S, antifascist S, Altermondialiste S, but so religious (religious extremists). This junction of a political thought and a knowledge to make technological is often the work of those which want that their action has a real impact. A political gesture without form will not have visibility, a technical virtuosity without the intelligence of the context will not have effectiveness, from where combination of the three terms “hack”, “activism”, “art”.
In fact actions can take the form of civil Désobéissance.
One of the slogans of the hacktivism is: “information wants to be free”.
There exist several types of hacktivists, the majority are people who defend their ideas by hackant contrary sites with their ethics. They can also make of Googles Bombing or the chains of emails to try to transmit a message by the voice of cyber-information.
See too
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The Yes Men
- Karl Koch
- Chaos Computer Club
- HFG
- Crypto-anarchism
- Anarchy and Internet
- Proclamation of the hacker
- Hacker (computer security)
External bonds
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Challenges to evolve/move in the computer security (Hacker-Challenge)
- rtmark: proposals for actions
- Discussion with a French hactivist
- Hold Luna
- 0100101110101101.org
- Definition
- a site which pleads for the hacktivism
- related Informations
| Random links: | Adventurer | Method of exhaustion | Battle of Coatit | Leon Tabah | Golden delicious Telecom |