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- 'Hacktivism' Catches On - Sidebar to story "Generation Gap in the Hacker Subculture". [ABC News]
www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/hackers990203.html#sidebar
- 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]
www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16545.html
- Chinese 'hacktivists' spin a Web of trouble for the regime - "With a few simple tricks, ordinary Internet users are now making a mockery of the Great Firewall, tapping easily into forbidden foreign sites." [USNews]
www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/980928/28chin.htm
- 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]
www.gis.net/~cht/torontostar.html
- 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]
www.gis.net/~cht/dissidents.html
- E-Guerrillas in the Mist - "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]
www.infowar.com/hacker/99/hack_061799a_j.shtml
- 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]
www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15129.html
- Hacking for Human Rights? - Article about the Cult of the Dead Cow, the Hong Kong Blondes, and hacktivism. [Wired]
www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/13693.html
- Hacktivism: the new protest movement - Article by Hugh Martin about hacktivism, including the attacks on Yahoo, Ebay, and amazon. [spark]
www.spark-online.com/april00/trends/martin.html
- 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]
www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9910/08/pakistani.hack
- 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]
www.gis.net/~cht/hacktivism.html
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