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Hacker Phineas Fisher is Trying To Start a 'Hack Back' Political Movement (vice.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The hacker who breached Hacking Team and FinFisher is trying to get more people to "hack back" and fight "the system." For some, thanks to his targeted attacks and sophisticated political views, Phineas Fisher is quickly becoming the most influential hacktivist of the last few years. In response to his most recent hack where he released a 39-minute how-to video showing how to strip data from targeted websites, specifically a website of the Catalan police union, Phineas Fisher told Motherboard, "Everything doesn't have to be big. I wanted to strike a small blow at the system, teach a bit of hacking with the video, and inspire people to take action." Biella Coleman, professor at McGill University in Montreal, believes Phineas Fisher has a good chance of inspiring a new generation of hacktivists and "setting the stage for other hackers to follow in his footsteps." She says he has been better at choosing targets and justifying his actions with more rounded and sophisticated political and ethical views than Anonymous and LulzSec-inspired hackers. Phineas Fisher told Motherboard, "I don't want to be the lone hacker fighting the system. I want to inspire others to take similar action, and try to provide the information so they can learn how."
how about an example of his "sophisticated political views"?
or is that an euphemism for whatever views writer of this puff piece holds?
any real "sophisticated political view" would be nuanced and will not have a binary view of society and groups in it.
but without binary views and resulting simplistic us versus them mentality, there wont be any "targets" to "attack" using illegal methods.
"Stripping data" from a website is not a power to be taken lightly.
web site and expose his KKK links.
He has links to Hillary?!?!?
Anarchists reject authority. Talibans and Daesh operate under authority. They ain't no anarchists. Black block may qualify although they're mostly left wing useful idiots whose actions are used to justify even more brutal crackdowns on legitimate protests.
There was no evidence Hitler hated women so he is literally worse than Hitler.
Also, Hitler liked dogs, and was a vegetarian. Trump does not own a dog, and eats animal flesh. He is worse in every way.
Gravillo Princip, who started the First, and indirectly the Second World War was an Anarchist. 100 Million dead people later, Europe is still ruled by a government
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
Yeah, Hitler's attitude to women was great, apart from keeping his niece prisoner and driving her to suicide, that is. Oh and nearly driving Eva Braun to suicide... before her actual suicide.
And yes, he killed that dog too.
Match the following two lists:
a) Lazy, bigoted, racist, got up at 10 or later, drank heavily and smoked cigars like the end of the world was about to come
b) Ascetic vegetarian, no women, did not drink, did not smoke, lived pretty much like a saint
c) Womanizer, had several charges of sexual harassment, got government troopers to get him blowjobs, screwed his aides in the office
a) Adolf Hitler*
b) Winston Churchill
c) Bill Clinton**
See the connection?
*Ok, admittedly, in the 2000s it became clear that Hitler was bit addicted to painkillers...
** To his defense, Monica Lewinsky saw an ad that said "Come to the White House, get a taste of the presidency". She came in the White House and tasted the President. So she needed reading glasses, not her fault!
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
But nobody has the right to bring about so much death and destruction, or to sacrifice the lives of innocents for a cause. That we made a better world from the ashes of their evil justifies nothing.
The 60s called. It wants its pot smoking hippies back.
Sorry, Phineas, but someone with "sophisticated" political views doesn't talk about "The System." They talk about specific policies, they talk about history, they talk about context and cause and effect. I respect your abilities to compromise computer systems, but if all you have is "fight the system" then you are not ready, at all, to talk about politics.
Love sees no species.
He doesn't get all the credit for starting the First World War. The Great Powers had maneuvered themselves into a situation where almost anything could touch off a war, and some of them were in political situations where backing down in a confrontation seemed more politically dangerous than starting a war.
Essentially:
Overall, I'd rate Princip's contribution as significantly less than the Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and German contributions.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes