Re: Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience, Cyberterrorism or Silly Posturing?

[PuzzleStar@aol.com]

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Brandon--

I can hardly claim to be an expert in this stuff, but there was one thing of 
note...

>EDT's tactics were most notably echoed in December 1999 when a British group 
>disabled the World Trade Organization's Web site
(also see the nifty little table thang ya got right below this statement...)

I'd be very careful how I make attributions of this sort.  I heard about the 
WTO sit-in from a local activist listserv.  I am not nor do I know personally 
any electrohippies, and if someone had decided to delete the original message 
when sending out the info, I might have never found out they were even 
involved.  It might be more accurate to say that certain groups "initiate" an 
action or come up with the idea to do it.  Once they get out the info to a 
few friends (who may put the info on a few lists), who participates in the 
action is largely out of their hands.  Also, if it ever gets to the point 
where legal things arise due to large-scale actions, being able to accuse a 
single group is nice and neat but hardly accurate.  For the conspiracy 
theorist, it's like arresting Lee Harvey Oswald when there's a few dozen 
others who got off free and without question.

Puz*


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