On Hacktivism

z84976 writes "Oxblood Ruffin, of cDc fame, has produced a nice article discussing various aspects of hactivism and some of the approaches used by their own Hacktivismo group in supporting freedom (of thought, mainly) on the internet. Check it out over at The Register when you get a chance."

Comments

Civil disobedience

[Dr Caleb]

In Mauritania - as in most countries - owners of cybercafés are required to supply government intelligence agents with copies of e-mail sent or received at their establishments.

If anyone is ever in a cybercafe in Mauritania or Elbonia, let's mail them 64k of encrypted random data. Let the government snoops try to decode that!

Re:Civil disobedience

[pizen]

What is the difference between encrypted random data and random data?

Just put the "PGP Message Follows" header thingy in front of your random data. Hours of enjoyment for the whole family.

Re:sport huh.

[CrazyBrett]

Yea, totally. I'm routing for the Bears!

Yes, that is one possible joke in this context :)
The other would be "I'm rooting for the Bears!"

Uhhhh.. Sorry?

[quantaman]

In 1968 the Canadian communications guru Marshall McLuhan stated, "World War Three will be a guerilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation."

So if the war is being waged on the Internet by civilians would that make the /. effect an attack? Maybe we should call it a /. blitz or /. offensive. On that note we've been hitting a lot more good guys than bad guys, sheesh! Us geeks can't even get a techie war right!!

Re:Ummm...

[Anonymous Coward]

I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, ... but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting ... by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, ... but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major--

Here ...

Re:RTFA

[startled]

Oops. True dat.