Tag: hactivism
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✴︎ blogWeb Tool Said to Offer Way Past the Government Censor
Published in the New York Times November 27, 2006 By CHRISTOPHER MASON TORONTO, Nov. 21 — Deep in a basement lab at the University of Toronto a team of political scientists, software engineers and computer-hacking activists, or “hactivists,” have created the latest, and some say most advanced tool yet in allowing Internet users to circumvent…
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✴︎ blogToronto Hactivists Benefit From Grant for Internet Censorship Work
There is a news item today in the CBC news about the grant to the OpenNet Initiative from the MacArthur Foundation. The grant is going to our ONI partners, the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society atHarvard Law School to fund the core ONI activities over the next several years. We are all very excited…
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✴︎ blogCitizen Lab — a hacker "grow op"
Wired News has a story about the history of hacktivism and the cDc, with some mention of the Citizen Lab as a “hacker grow-op.” Hacktivism and How It Got Here Michelle Delio 07.14.04 NEW YORK — Hacktivism isn’t found in the graffiti on defaced Web pages, in e-mail viruses bearing political screeds or in smug…
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✴︎ blogHacktivista Broadcast
My new documentary series Hacktivista, co-produced with Mike Downie, will air on TVOntario December 26th, 29th, and 30th at 8 pm.