[104942] in Cypherpunks
Hacktivists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Secret Squirrel)
Sun Nov 1 21:52:03 1998
Date: 2 Nov 1998 02:41:00 -0000
From: Secret Squirrel <secret_squirrel@nym.alias.net>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Secret Squirrel <secret_squirrel@nym.alias.net>
"HACKTIVISTS" SAY: "THE REVOLUTION WILL BE DIGITIZED"
Two political activists in New York, of cofounders of the
Electronic Disturbance Theater, are organizing "virtual sit-ins"
and recruiting programmers to attack the Web sites of persons or
organizations they believe responsible for oppression. "We see
this as a form of electronic civil obedience," says Stefan Wray,
one of the two leaders of this effort. National Information
Protection Agency chief Michael Vatis says, "I wouldn't
characterize vandalizing Web sites as cyber-terrorism, but the
only responsible assumption we can make is that there's more
going on that we don't know about." Some activists agree with
that assessment, but for different reasons; they think such
methods are unproductive because they will antagonize the
general public. (New York Times 31 Oct 98)
