Hacktivism
Wikipedia article about hacktivism
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828<figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb" id="mwBQ"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anarchist_Village.jpg" class="mw-file-description" id="mwBg"><img resource="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anarchist_Village.jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Anarchist_Village.jpg/330px-Anarchist_Village.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="4048" data-file-height="3036" data-file-type="bitmap" height="225" width="300" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Anarchist_Village.jpg/960px-Anarchist_Village.jpg 2x" class="mw-file-element mw-file-upright" style="--mw-file-upright: 1.2" id="mwBw"/></a><figcaption id="mwCA">Anarchist hacker village at a Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference, 2018</figcaption></figure>
829<p id="mwCQ"><b id="mwCg">Hacktivism</b> (or <b id="mwCw">hactivism</b>; a <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau" title="Portmanteau" id="mwDA">portmanteau</a> of <i id="mwDQ"><a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(computer_security)" title="Hack (computer security)" class="mw-redirect" id="mwDg">hack</a></i> and <i id="mwDw"><a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activism" title="Activism" id="mwEA">activism</a></i>) is the use of computer-based techniques such as <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_hacker" title="Security hacker" id="mwEQ">hacking</a> as a form of <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience" title="Civil disobedience" id="mwEg">civil disobedience</a> to promote a <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_agenda" title="Political agenda" id="mwEw">political agenda</a> or <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_
848<ol id="mwmg"><li id="mwmw"><a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code" title="Source code" id="mwnA">Code</a>: Software and websites can achieve political goals. For example, the encryption software <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy" title="Pretty Good Privacy" id="mwnQ">PGP</a> can be used to secure communications; PGP's author, <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann" title="Phil Zimmermann" id="mwng">Phil Zimmermann</a> said he distributed it first to the peace movement.<sup about="#mwt60" class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-20" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-20"}}'><a href="#cite_note-20" id="mwnw"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwoA"><span class="cite-bracket" id="mwoQ">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket" id="mwog">]</span></span></a></sup> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Warren_
849<li id="mwrQ"><a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_site" title="Mirror site" id="mwrg">Mirroring</a>: Website mirroring is used as a circumvention tool in order to bypass various censorship blocks on websites. This technique copies the contents of a censored website and disseminates it on other domains and sub-domains that are not censored.<sup about="#mwt69" class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-23" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"}}'><a href="#cite_note-23" id="mwrw"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwsA"><span class="cite-bracket" id="mwsQ">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket" id="mwsg">]</span></span></a></sup> Document mirroring, similar to website mirroring, is a technique that focuses on backing up various documents and other works. <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECAP" title="RECAP" class="mw-redirect" id="mwsw">RECAP</a> is software that was written with t
850<li id="mwug"><a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymity" title="Anonymity" id="mwuw">Anonymity</a>: A method of speaking out to a wide audience about human rights issues, government oppression, etc. that utilizes various web tools such as <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_email_address" title="Disposable email address" id="mwvA">free and/or disposable email accounts</a>, IP masking, and blogging software to preserve a high level of anonymity.<sup about="#mwt75" class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-25" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-25"}}'><a href="#cite_note-25" id="mwvQ"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwvg"><span class="cite-bracket" id="mwvw">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket" id="mwwA">]</span></span></a></sup></li>
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