Monday, December 8, 2008

The illustrative case of hacktivism

Hacktivism is the nonviolent use of illegal or legally ambiguous digital tools in pursuit of political ends.

Lets say that there is a group of people who find nuclear weapons very unsympathetic and who have bigger knowledges about computers and digital world than general user. Lets say they discover that some countries are making some tests to improve the power of the nuclear weapon and they start to fight for it. They are hacking into the system and deleting some data or start to use emails which contain information hackers like. They add some content into organization website and according to this they may ruin some relations.

For example: Three teenagers broke into computer systems at India's Bhabha Atomic Research center in Bombay for a reason to protest against two nations recent series of nuclear weapons tests. They deleted some data, send emails and changed web page.

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