Wikipedia says that hacktivism is "the nonviolent use of illegal or legally ambiguous digital tools in pursuit of political ends. These tools include web site defacements, redirects, denial-of-service attacks, information theft, web site parodies, virtual sit-ins, virtual sabotage, and software development."
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In that same Wikipedia article are some interesting examples of hacktivism. Bronc Buster got my attention the most since I feel a country shouldn´t restrict the use of Internet from the people. And it seemed funny that this incident happened almost precicely ten years ago.
On Wikipedia it was told that Bronc Buster disabled some firewalls so that Chinese people got uncensored access to Internet. When I put his name on Google to search for Finnish pages about him, I got only a page that told he is a cracker who managed to change the web pages of government of China concerning human rights to a page which judged strongly the Chinese government and got links to pages which critisize the Chinese human rights politics. The page Bronc Buster made is in here.
Bronc Buster made his attack almost immediately the service got opened (26.10.1998) and mocked also the security of the pages: he said that it took only two minutes to break into the service.
Bronc Buster is said to be a member of Legions of the Underground, at least in this page it is said so. And in this page is it said that he is a member of Hacktivismo.
Here is also an interesting article about this occasion.
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In that same Wikipedia article are some interesting examples of hacktivism. Bronc Buster got my attention the most since I feel a country shouldn´t restrict the use of Internet from the people. And it seemed funny that this incident happened almost precicely ten years ago.
On Wikipedia it was told that Bronc Buster disabled some firewalls so that Chinese people got uncensored access to Internet. When I put his name on Google to search for Finnish pages about him, I got only a page that told he is a cracker who managed to change the web pages of government of China concerning human rights to a page which judged strongly the Chinese government and got links to pages which critisize the Chinese human rights politics. The page Bronc Buster made is in here.
Bronc Buster made his attack almost immediately the service got opened (26.10.1998) and mocked also the security of the pages: he said that it took only two minutes to break into the service.
Bronc Buster is said to be a member of Legions of the Underground, at least in this page it is said so. And in this page is it said that he is a member of Hacktivismo.
Here is also an interesting article about this occasion.
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