[Freedombox-discuss] Democracy Now

[Rick]

In recent years, online hackers who identified as being part of
Anonymous and other groups have carried out dozens of high-profile
online operations. When MasterCard and Visa suspended payments to
WikiLeaks last December, hackers with Anonymous briefly took down the
websites of both credit card giants. Other targets have included Sony,
PayPal, Amazon, Bank of America, the Church of Scientology, and the
governments of Egypt, Tunisia and Syria. Now law enforcement agencies
across the world have begun cracking down on the hackers. In July, 16
suspected members of Anonymous were arrested in the United States. We
take an inside look at how online hacker activist groups operate with
three guests: Peter Fein, an activist who works with the group
Telecomix, a volunteer organization that has supported free speech and
an open internet in the Middle East, and who sometimes acts as a
liaison to Anonymous and was one of several moderators on the Internet
Relay Chat for OpBART, the latest Anonymous campaign targeting the San
Francisco subway system; Gabriella Coleman, an assistant professor of
media, culture and communication at New York University whose first
book, "Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking," is
forthcoming, currently working on a new book about Anonymous and
digital activism; and a member of the hacktivist group Anonymous,
going by the pseudonym "X." [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/16/hacktivisms_global_reach_from_targeting_scientology

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