Terrorism or Civil Disobedience: Toward a Hacktivist Ethic Mark Manion & Abby Goodrum Drexel UniversiO~Philadelphia, PA n this era of global commerce via the Internet, strikes against the hegemony of bureaucratic capitalism and the commercialization of the Internet will inevitably be cartied out on the World Wide Web. In fact, recent proliferation of hacking activity has shocked the commercial Internet world. On February 8, 2000 hackers attacked Yahoo, Amazon, eBa)~ CNN and Bulacom, dosing them for several hours. Through "denial of service" attacks originating from hundreds of independent computers, the sites were flooded with millions of simultaneous requests. This increase in fake service requests effectively blocked legitimate users from accessing the site. These hacks have led to widespread speculation regarding the motivation of the perpetrators. Are they mere nuisance attacks perpetrated by malicious teenagers, more serious acts of cyberterrorism, or evidence of growing outrage over an increasingly commodified Internet? Although at present no individuals or groups have officially claimed responsibility, MSNBC reported receipt of an 18-page letter claiming responsibility by an individual who angrily criticized the sites for their "capitalization of the Internet." Hundreds of reports in the popular press have portrayed the hackers as vandals, terrorists and
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Terrorism or civil disobedience: toward a hacktivist ethic
Manion, Mark; Goodrum, Abby
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Association for Computing Machinery – Jun 1, 2000
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