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Internet activism,hacktivism,orhactivism(aportmanteauofhackandactivism), is the use of computer-based techniques such ashackingas a form ofcivil disobedienceto promote a political agenda or social change.[1]With roots inhacker cultureandhacker ethics,its ends are often related tofree speech,human rights,orfreedom of informationmovements.[2]

Hacktivist activities span many political ideals and issues.Freenet,apeer-to-peerplatform forcensorship-resistant communication, is a prime example of translating political thought andfreedom of speechinto code. Hacking as a form ofactivismcan be carried out by a singular activist or through a network of activists, such asAnonymousandWikiLeaks,working in collaboration toward common goals without an overarching authority figure.[3][4]For context, according to a statement by the U.S. Justice Department, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, plotted with hackers connected to the "Anonymous" and "LulzSec" groups, who have been linked to multiple cyberattacks worldwide. In 2012, Assange, who was being held in the United Kingdom on a request for extradition from the United States, gave the head of LulzSec a list of targets to hack and informed him that the most significant leaks of compromised material would come from the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, or the New York Times.[5]

"Hacktivism" is a controversial term with several meanings. The word was coined to characterize electronicdirect actionas working towardsocial changeby combiningprogrammingskills withcritical thinking.But just ashackcan sometimes mean cyber crime,hacktivismcan be used to mean activism that is malicious, destructive, and undermining thesecurityof theInternetas atechnical,economic,andpolitical platform.[6]In comparison to previous forms of social activism, hacktivism has had unprecedented success, bringing in more participants, using more tools, and having more influence in that it has the ability to alterelections,begin conflicts, and take down businesses.[7]

According to theUnited States2020–2022 Counterintelligence Strategy, in addition to state adversaries and transnational criminal organizations, "ideologically motivated entities such as hacktivists, leaktivists, and public disclosure organizations, also pose significant threats".[8][9]

Origins and definitions

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Writer Jason Sack first used the term hacktivism in a 1995 article in conceptualizingNew MediaartistShu Lea Cheang's filmFresh Kill.[10][11]However, the term is frequently attributed to theCult of the Dead Cow(cDc) member "Omega," who used it in a 1996 e-mail to the group.[12][13]Due to the variety of meanings of its root words, the definition of hacktivism is nebulous and there exists significant disagreement over the kinds of activities and purposes it encompasses. Some definitions include acts ofcyberterrorismwhile others simply reaffirm the use of technological hacking to effect social change.[14][15]

Forms and methods

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Self-proclaimed "hacktivists" often work anonymously, sometimes operating in groups while other times operating as a lone wolf with several cyber-personas all corresponding to one activist[16]within thecyberactivismumbrella that has been gaining public interest and power in pop-culture. Hacktivists generally operate under apolitical ideals and express uninhibited ideas or abuse without being scrutinized by society while representing or defending themselves publicly under an anonymous identity giving them a sense of power in thecyberactivismcommunity[citation needed].

In order to carry out their operations, hacktivists might create new tools; or integrate or use a variety of software tools readily available on the Internet. One class of hacktivist activities includes increasing the accessibility of others to take politically motivated action online[citation needed].

Repertoire of contentionof hacktivism includes among others:

  1. Code: Software and websites can achieve political goals. For example, the encryption softwarePGPcan be used to secure communications; PGP's author,Phil Zimmermannsaid he distributed it first to the peace movement.[17]Jim Warrensuggests PGP's wide dissemination was in response to Senate Bill 266, authored by Senators Biden and DeConcini, which demanded that "...communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications...".[18]WikiLeaksis an example of a politically motivated website: it seeks to "keep governments open".[19]
  2. Mirroring: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.[20]Document mirroring, similar to website mirroring, is a technique that focuses on backing up various documents and other works.RECAPis software that was written with the purpose to 'liberate US case law' and make it openly available online. The software project takes the form of distributed document collection and archival.[21]Major mirroring projects include initiatives such as theInternet ArchiveandWikisource.
  3. Anonymity: A method of speaking out to a wide audience about human rights issues, government oppression, etc. that utilizes various web tools such asfree and/or disposable email accounts,IP masking, and blogging software to preserve a high level of anonymity.[22]
  4. Doxing:The practice in which private and/or confidential documents and records are hacked into and made public. Hacktivists see this as a form of assured transparency, experts claim it is harassment.[23]
  5. Denial-of-service attacks:These attacks, commonly referred to asDoS attacks,use large arrays of personal and public computers that hackers take control of viamalwareexecutable files usually transmitted through email attachments or website links. After taking control, these computers act like a herd of zombies, redirecting theirnetwork trafficto one website, with the intention of overloadingserversand taking a website offline.[23]
  6. Virtual sit-ins:Similar to DoS attacks but executed by individuals rather than software, a large number of protesters visit a targeted website and rapidly load pages to overwhelm the site withnetwork trafficto slow the site or take it offline.[24]
  7. Website defacements:Hackers infiltrate a web server to replace a specific web page with one of their own, usually to convey a specific message.[25][24]
  8. Website redirects:This method involves changing the address of a website within the server so would-be visitors of the site are redirected to a site created by the perpetrator, typically to denounce the original site.[24]
  9. Geo-bombing:A technique in whichnetizensadd ageo-tagwhile editingYouTubevideos so that the location of the video can be seen inGoogle Earth.[26]
  10. Protestware: The use ofmalwareto promote asocial causeorprotest.[27]Protestware is self-inflicted by a project's maintainer in order to spread a message; most commonly in a disruptive manner. The term was popularized during theRusso-Ukrainian Warafter thepeacenotwarsupply chain attackon thenpmecosystem.[28]

Controversy

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Depending on who is using the term, hacktivism can be a politically motivated technologyhack,a constructive form ofanarchiccivil disobedience,or an undefined anti-systemic gesture.[29]It can signalanticapitalistor political protest; it can denote anti-spamactivists, security experts, oropen sourceadvocates.[30]

Some people[who?]describing themselves as hacktivists have taken todefacingwebsites for political reasons, such as attacking and defacing websites of governments and those who oppose theirideology.[31]Others, such asOxblood Ruffin(the "foreign affairs minister"of Cult of the Dead Cow and Hacktivismo), have argued forcefully against definitions of hacktivism that include web defacements ordenial-of-service attacks.[32]

Hacktivism is often seen as shadowy due to its anonymity, commonly attributed to the work of fringe groups and outlying members of society.[16]The lack of responsible parties to be held accountable for the social-media attacks performed by hactivists has created implications in corporate and federal security measures both on and offline.[23]

While some self-described hacktivists[who?]have engaged in DoS attacks, critics suggest[who?]that DoS attacks are an attack on free speech and that they haveunintended consequences.DoS attacks waste resources and they can lead to a "DoS war" that nobody will win[citation needed].In 2006,Blue Securityattempted to automate a DoS attack against spammers; this led to a massive DoS attack against Blue Security which knocked them, their old ISP and their DNS provider off the Internet, destroying their business.[33]

Followingdenial-of-serviceattacks byAnonymouson multiple sites, in reprisal for the apparent suppression ofWikiLeaks,John Perry Barlow,a founding member of theEFF,said "I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace...".[34]On the other hand,Jay Leiderman,an attorney for many hacktivists, argues that DDoS can be a legitimate form of protest speech in situations that are reasonably limited in time, place and manner.[35]

Notable hacktivist events

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See also:Timeline of events associated with Anonymous
  • In late 1990s, theHong Kong Blondeshelped Chinese citizens get access to blocked websites by targeting the Chinese computer networks.[36]The group identified holes in the Chinese internet system, particularly in the area of satellite communications. The leader of the group, Blondie Wong, also described plans to attack American businesses that were partnering with China.[37]
  • In 1996, the title of the United States Department of Justice's homepage was changed to "Department of Injustice". Pornographic images were also added to the homepage to protest the Communications Decency Act.[38]
  • In 1998, members of theElectronic Disturbance Theatercreated FloodNet, a web tool that allowed users to participate inDDoS attacks(or what they calledelectronic civil disobedience) in support ofZapatistarebels inChiapas.[39]
  • In December 1998, a hacktivist group from the US called Legions of the Underground emerged. They declared a cyberwar against Iraq and China and planned on disabling internet access in retaliation for the countries' human rights abuses.[40]Opposing hackers criticized this move by Legions of the Underground, saying that by shutting down internet systems, the hacktivist group would have no impact on providing free access to information.[41]
  • In July 2001,Hacktivismo,a sect of theCult of the Dead Cow,issued the "Hacktivismo Declaration". This served as a code of conduct for those participating in hacktivism, and declared the hacker community's goals of stopping "state-sponsored censorship of the Internet" as well as affirming the rights of those therein to "freedom of opinion and expression".[42]
  • During the2009 Iranian election protests,Anonymousplayed a role in disseminating information to and from Iran by setting up the website Anonymous Iran;[43]they also released a videomanifestoto the Iranian government.
  • Google worked with engineers from SayNow and Twitter to provide communications for the Egyptian people in response to the government sanctioned Internet blackout during the 2011 protests. The result,Speak To Tweet,was a service in which voicemail left by phone was then tweeted via Twitter with a link to the voice message on Google's SayNow.[44]
  • On Saturday 29 May 2010 a hacker calling himself 'Kaka Argentine' hacked into the Ugandan State House website and posted a conspicuous picture of Adolf Hitler with the swastika, a Nazi Party symbol.[31]
  • During the Egyptian Internet black out, January 28 – February 2, 2011,Telecomixprovided dial up services, and technical support for the Egyptian people.[45]Telecomix released a video stating their support of the Egyptian people, describing their efforts to provide dial-up connections, and offering methods to avoid internet filters and government surveillance.[46]The hacktivist group also announced that they were closely tracking radio frequencies in the event that someone was sending out important messages.[47]
  • Project Chanology,also known as "Operation Chanology", was a hacktivist protest against theChurch of Scientologyto punish the church for participating inInternet censorshiprelating to the removal of material from a 2008 interview with Church of Scientology memberTom Cruise.Hacker groupAnonymousattempted to "expel the church from the Internet" via DDoS attacks. In February 2008 the movement shifted toward legal methods ofnonviolent protesting.Several protests were held as part of Project Chanology, beginning in 2008 and ending in 2009.
  • On June 3, 2011, LulzSec took down a website of the FBI. This was the first time they had targeted a website that was not part of the private sector. That week, the FBI was able to track the leader of LulzSec, Hector Xavier Monsegur.[48]
  • On June 20, 2011, LulzSec targeted the Serious Organised Crime Agency of the United Kingdom, causing UK authorities to take down the website.[49]
  • In August 2011 a member of Anonymous working under the name "Oliver Tucket" took control of the Syrian Defense Ministry website and added an Israeli government web portal in addition to changing the mail server for the website to one belonging to the Chinese navy.[50]
  • Anonymous andNew World Hackersclaimed responsibility for the2016 Dyn cyberattackin retaliation forEcuador's rescinding Internet access toWikiLeaksfounderJulian Assangeat theirembassy in London.[51]WikiLeaks alluded to the attack.[52]Subsequently, FlashPoint stated that the attack was most likely done byscript kiddies.[53]
  • In 2013, as an online component to theMillion Mask March,Anonymousin the Philippines crashed 30 government websites and posted a YouTube video to congregate people in front of the parliament house on November 5 to demonstrate their disdain toward the Filipino government.[54]
  • In 2014,Sony Pictures Entertainmentwashackedby a group by the name ofGuardians Of Peace(GOP) who obtained over 100 Terabytes of data including unreleased films, employee salary, social security data, passwords, and account information. GOP hacked various social media accounts and hijacked them by changing their passwords to diespe123 (die sony pictures entertainment) and posting threats on the pages.[55]
  • In 2016,VICEreported that a teenage hackerCyber Anakinhad gone on a hacking spree againstRussianwebsites such as e-mail provider KM.RU and game companyNivalto express his anger against Russia for the downing of theMalaysia AirlinesFlightMH17in easternUkraine.According to cybersecurity researcherTroy Hunt,at least 1.5 million victims were affected by the breaches. Many years laterLatvia-based independent news websiteMeduzaused the content of KM.RU's data breach to pinpoint the identity of a person who has been harassing female chess players of various countries such as Russia,KazakhstanandIndiawith the delivery of mails containing used condoms.[56][57][58]
  • In 2016, Turkish programmer Azer Koçuluremoved his software package, left-pad, from npm,causing a cascading failure of other software packages that contained left-pad as a dependency. This was done afterKik,a messaging application, threatened legal action against Koçulu after he refused to rename hiskikpackage. npm ultimately sided with Kik, prompting Koçulu to unpublish all of his packages from npm in protest, including left-pad.[59]
  • British hacker Kane Gamble, who was sentenced to 2 years in youth detention, posed asJohn Brennan,the then director of the CIA, andMark F. Giuliano,a former deputy director of the FBI, to access highly sensitive information.[60]The judge said Gamble engaged in "politically motivated cyber-terrorism."[61]
  • In 2021,Anonymoushacked and leakedthe databases of American web hosting companyEpik.
  • As a response against2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,Anonymousperformed multiple cyberattacksagainst Russian computer systems.[62]
  • Following theIsrael-Hamas warsince 2023, multiplecyberattacksattacks were seen from pro-Israel and pro-Palestine hacktivist groups.[63][64][65]India's pro-Israel hacktivists tookdownthe portals of Palestinian National Bank, the National Telecommunications Company and the website ofHamas.[66][67]Multiple Israeli websites were flooded with malicious traffic by pro-Palestine hacktivists. Israeli newspaperThe Jerusalem Postreported that its website was down due to a series of cyberattacks initiated against them.[68][69]

Notable hacktivist people/groups

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WikiLeaks

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Main article:WikiLeaks
The video released by WikiLeaks, showing the slaying ofReutersemployeeNamir Noor-Eldeenand a dozen other civilians by a U.S. helicopter. Content may be disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.

WikiLeaks is amediaorganisation andpublisherfounded in 2006. It operates as a non-profit and is funded by donations[80]and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymoussources.[81]It was founded byJulian Assange,anAustralianeditor,publisher, andactivist,who is currentlychallenging extradition to the United Statesover his work with WikiLeaks.[82]Since September 2018,Kristinn Hrafnssonhas served as itseditor-in-chief.[83][84]Its website states that it has released more than ten million documents and associated analyses.[85]WikiLeaks' most recent publication was in 2021, and its most recent publication of original documents was in 2019.[86]Beginning in November 2022, many of the documents on the organisation's website could not be accessed.[86][87][88][89]

WikiLeaks has releaseddocument cachesand media that exposed serious violations ofhuman rightsandcivil libertiesby various governments. It released footage, which it titledCollateral Murder,of the12July 2007 Baghdad airstrike,in which IraqiReutersjournalists and several civilians were killed by a U.S. helicopter crew.[90]WikiLeaks has also published leaks such asdiplomatic cables from the United StatesandSaudi Arabia,[91][92]emails from the governments of Syria[93][94]andTurkey,[95][96][97]corruption inKenya[98][99]and atSamherji.[100]WikiLeaks has also published documents exposingcyber warfare and surveillance toolscreated by theCIA,[101][102]and surveillance of the French president by theNational Security Agency.[103][104]During the2016 U.S. presidential election campaign,WikiLeaksreleased emailsfrom theDemocratic National Committee(DNC) and fromHillary Clinton's campaign manager,showing that the party's national committee had effectively acted as an arm of the Clinton campaign during theprimaries,seeking to undercut the campaign ofBernie Sanders.These releases resulted in the resignation of the chairwoman of the DNC and caused significant harm to theClinton campaign.[105]During the campaign, WikiLeaks promoted false conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, theDemocratic Partyand themurder of Seth Rich.[106][107][108]

WikiLeaks has won a number of awards and has been commended for exposing state and corporate secrets, increasing transparency, assistingfreedom of the press,and enhancing democratic discourse while challenging powerful institutions. WikiLeaks and some of its supporters say the organisation's publications have a perfect record of publishing authentic documents. The organisation has been the target of campaigns to discredit it, including aborted ones byPalantirandHBGary.WikiLeaks has also had its donation systems disrupted by problems with itspayment processors.As a result, theWau Holland Foundationhelps process WikiLeaks' donations.

The organisation has been criticised for inadequately curating some of its content and violating the personal privacy of individuals. WikiLeaks has, for instance, revealedSocial Security numbers,medical information,credit card numbersand details ofsuicide attempts.[109][110][111]News organisations, activists, journalists and former members have also criticised the organisation over allegations of anti-Clinton and pro-Trump bias, various associations with the Russian government, buying and selling of leaks, and a lack of internal transparency. Journalists have also criticised the organisation for promotion of false flag conspiracy theories, and what they describe as exaggerated and misleading descriptions of the contents of leaks. TheCIAdefined the organisation as a "non-statehostileintelligence service"after the release ofVault 7.[112]

Anonymous

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Main article:Anonymous (group)
TheGuy Fawkes maskis commonly used by Anonymous.

Perhaps the most prolific and well known hacktivist group,Anonymoushas been prominent and prevalent in many major online hacks over the past decade. Anonymous is a decentralized group that originated on the forums of4chanduring 2003, but didn't rise to prominence until 2008 when they directly attacked theChurch of Scientologyin a massiveDoSattack.[113]Since then, Anonymous has participated in a great number of online projects such asOperation: Paybackand Operation: Safe Winter.[114][115]However, while a great number of their projects have been for a charitable cause,[114]they have still gained notoriety from the media due to the nature of their work mostly consisting of illegal hacking.[116]

Following theParis terror attacksin 2015, Anonymous posted a video declaring war onISIS,[117]the terror group that claimed responsibility for the attacks. Since declaring war on ISIS, Anonymous since identified several Twitter accounts associated with the movement in order to stop the distribution of ISIS propaganda. However, Anonymous fell under heavy criticism when Twitter issued a statement calling the lists Anonymous had compiled "wildly inaccurate," as it contained accounts of journalists and academics rather than members of ISIS.[118]

Anonymous has also been involved with theBlack Lives Mattermovement. Early in July 2015, there was a rumor circulating that Anonymous was calling for a Day of Rage protests in retaliation for the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, which would entail violent protests and riots. This rumor was based on a video that was not posted with the official Anonymous YouTube account.[citation needed]None of the Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous had tweeted anything in relation to a Day of Rage, and the rumors were identical to past rumors that had circulated in 2014 following the death of Mike Brown.[119]Instead, on July 15, a Twitter account associated with Anonymous posted a series of tweets calling for a day of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The Twitter account used the hashtag "#FridayofSolidarity" to coordinate protests across the nation, and emphasized the fact that the Friday of Solidarity was intended for peaceful protests. The account also stated that the group was unaware of any Day of Rage plans.[120]

In February 2017 the group took down more than 10,000 sites on theDark webrelated to child porn.[2]

DkD[||

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DkD[||, a French cyberhacktivist, was arrested by the OCLCTIC (office central de lutte contre la criminalité liée aux technologies de l’information et de la communication), in March 2003. DkD[|| defaced more than 2000 pages, many were governments and US military sites. Eric Voulleminot of the Regional Service of Judicial Police in Lille classified the young hacker as "the most wanted hacktivist in France"[121]

DkD[|| was a very known defacer in the underground for his political view, doing his defacements for various political reasons. In response to his arrest, The Ghost Boys defaced manynavy.milsites using the “Free DkD[||!!” slogan.[122][123]

LulzSec

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Main article:LulzSec

In May 2011, five members of Anonymous formed the hacktivist groupLulz Security,otherwise known as LulzSec. LulzSec's name originated from the conjunction of the internet slang term "lulz", meaning laughs, and "sec", meaning security.[48]The group members used specific handles to identify themselves on Internet Relay Channels, the most notable being: "Sabu," "Kayla," "T-Flow," "Topiary," "AVUnit," and "Pwnsauce." Though the members of LulzSec would spend up to 20 hours a day in communication, they did not know one another personally, nor did they share personal information. For example, once the members' identities were revealed, "T-Flow" was revealed to be 15 years old. Other members, on the basis of his advanced coding ability, thought he was around 30 years old.[124]

One of the first notable targets that LulzSec pursued wasHBGary,which was performed in response to a claim made by the technology security company that it had identified members of Anonymous. Following this, the members of LulzSec targeted an array of companies and entities, including but not limited to:Fox Television,Tribune Company,PBS,Sony,Nintendo,and theSenate.govwebsite. The targeting of these entities typically involved gaining access to and downloading confidential user information, or defacing the website at hand.[125]LulzSec while not as strongly political as those typical of WikiLeaks or Anonymous, they shared similar sentiments for the freedom of information. One of their distinctly politically driven attacks involved targeting the Arizona State Police in response to new immigration laws.[126]

The group's first attack that garnered significant government attention was in 2011, when they collectively took down a website of the FBI. Following the incident, the leader of LulzSec, "Sabu," was identified asHector Xavier Monsegurby the FBI, and he was the first of the group to be arrested. Immediately following his arrest, Monsegur admitted to criminal activity. He then began his cooperation with the US government, helping FBI authorities to arrest 8 of his co-conspirators, prevent 300 potential cyber attacks, and helped to identify vulnerabilities in existing computer systems. In August 2011, Monsegur pleaded guilty to "computer hacking conspiracy, computer hacking, computer hacking in furtherance of fraud, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and aggravatedidentity theftpursuant to a cooperation agreement with the government. "He served a total of one year and seven months and was charged a $1,200 fine.[127]

SiegedSec

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Main article:SiegedSec

SiegedSec,short forSieged Securityand commonly self-referred to as the "GayFurryHackers ",[128][129]is ablack-hatcriminal hacktivistgroupthat was formed in early 2022, that has committed a number of high-profilecyber attacks,including attacks onNATO,[130][131][132]TheIdaho National Laboratory,[128][129]andReal America's Voice.[133][134]On July 10, 2024, the group announced that they would be disbanding after attackingThe Heritage Foundation.[135]

SiegedSec is led by an individual under the alias "vio".[136]Short for "Sieged Security",[137][138][139]SiegedSec'sTelegramchannel was first created in April 2022,[140]and they commonly refer to themselves as "gay furry hackers".[141][142]On multiple occasions, the group has targetedright-wingmovements throughbreaching data,includingThe Heritage Foundation,[143][144]Real America's Voice,[145]as well as variousU.S. statesthat have pursued legislative decisions againstgender-affirming care.[146]

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Culture jamming

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Hacking has been sometime described as a form ofculture jamming.[147]: 88 This term refers to the practice of subverting and criticizing political messages as well as media culture with the aim of challenging the status quo. It is often targeted toward subliminal thought processes taking place in the viewers with the goal of raising awareness as well as causing a paradigm shift. Culture jamming takes many forms includingbillboard hacking,broadcast signal intrusion,ad hoc art performances, simulated legal transgressions,[148]memes,andartivism.[citation needed][149]

The term "culture jamming" was first coined in 1984 by American musicianDonald Joyceof the bandNegativland.[150]However, some speculation remains as to when the practice of culture jamming first began. Social researcherVince Carduccibelieves culture jamming can be traced back to the 1950s with European social activist groupSituationist International.Author and cultural criticMark Derybelieves medieval carnival is the earliest form of culture jamming as a way to subvert the social hierarchy at the time.[citation needed]

Culture jamming is sometimes confused with acts of vandalism. However, unlike culture jamming, the main goal of vandalism is to cause destruction with any political themes being of lesser importance. Artivism usually has the most questionable nature as a form of culture jamming because defacement of property is usually involved.[citation needed]

Media hacking

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Media hackingrefers to the usage of variouselectronic mediain an innovative or otherwise abnormal fashion for the purpose of conveying a message to as large a number of people as possible, primarily achieved via theWorld Wide Web.[151][152]A popular and effective means of media hacking is posting on ablog,as one is usually controlled by one or more independent individuals, uninfluenced by outside parties. The concept ofsocial bookmarking,as well as Web-basedInternet forums,may cause such a message to be seen by users of other sites as well, increasing its total reach.

Media hacking is commonly employed for political purposes, by both political parties andpolitical dissidents.A good example of this is the 2008 US Election, in which both theDemocraticandRepublicanparties used a wide variety of different media in order to convey relevant messages to an increasingly Internet-oriented audience.[153]At the same time, political dissidents usedblogsand other social media likeTwitterin order to reply on an individual basis to the presidential candidates. In particular, sites like Twitter are proving important means in gauging popular support for the candidates, though the site is often used for dissident purposes rather than a show of positive support.[154]

Mobile technology has also become subject to media hacking for political purposes.SMShas been widely used by political dissidents as a means of quickly and effectively organisingsmart mobsfor political action. This has been most effective in the Philippines, where SMS media hacking has twice had a significant impact on whether or not the country's Presidents are elected or removed from office.[155]

Reality hacking

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Reality hackingis any phenomenon that emerges from the nonviolent use of illegal or legally ambiguousdigitaltools in pursuit of politically, socially, orculturally subversiveends. These tools includewebsite defacements,URL redirections,denial-of-service attacks,information theft, web-site parodies,virtual sit-ins,and virtualsabotage.[citation needed]

Art movements such asFluxusandHappeningsin the 1970s created a climate of receptibility in regard to loose-knit organizations and group activities where spontaneity, areturn to primitivist behavior,and an ethics where activities andsocially engaged artpractices became tantamount toaestheticconcerns.[clarification needed]

The conflation of these two histories in the mid-to-late 1990s[citation needed]resulted in cross-overs between virtual sit-ins,electronic civil disobedience,denial-of-service attacks, as well as mass protests in relation to groups like theInternational Monetary Fundand theWorld Bank.The rise of collectives,net.artgroups, and those concerned with the fluid interchange of technology andreal life(often from an environmental concern) gave birth to the practice of "reality hacking".

Reality hacking relies ontweakingthe everyday communications most easily available to individuals with the purpose of awakening the political andcommunity conscienceof the larger population. The term first came into use among New York and San Francisco artists, but has since been adopted by aschoolof political activists centered aroundculture jamming.

In fiction

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The 1999 science fiction-action filmThe Matrix,among others, popularized thesimulation hypothesis— the suggestion thatrealityis in fact asimulationof which those affected by the simulants are generally unaware. In this context, "reality hacking" is reading and understanding the code which represents the activity of the simulated reality environment (such asMatrix digital rain) and also modifying it in order to bend thelaws of physicsor otherwise modify thesimulated reality.

Reality hacking as a mystical practice is explored in theGothic-Punkaesthetics-inspiredWhite Wolfurban fantasyrole-playing gameMage: The Ascension.In this game, the Reality Coders (also known as Reality Hackers or Reality Crackers) are a faction within theVirtual Adepts,a secret society of mages whosemagickrevolves arounddigitaltechnology. They are dedicated to bringing the benefits ofcyberspacetoreal space.To do this, they had to identify, for lack of a better term, the "source code"that allows ourUniverseto function. And that is what they have been doing ever since. Coders infiltrated a number of levels of society in order to gather the greatest compilation of knowledge ever seen. One of the Coders' more overt agendas is to acclimate the masses to the world that is to come. They spread Virtual Adept ideas throughvideo gamesand a whole spate of "reality shows"that mimicvirtual realityfar more than "real" reality. The Reality Coders consider themselves the future of the Virtual Adepts, creating a world in the image of visionaries likeGrant MorrisonorTerence McKenna.[citation needed]

In alocation-based game(also known as a pervasive game), reality hacking refers to tapping into phenomena that exist in the real world, and tying them into the game story universe.[156]

Academic interpretations

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There have been various academic approaches to deal with hacktivism and urban hacking. In 2010, Günther Friesinger,Johannes Grenzfurthnerand Thomas Ballhausen published an entire reader dedicated to the subject. They state:

Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: Netculture replaced counterculture in most parts and also focused on the everchanging environments of the modern city. Important questions have been brought up to date and reasked, taking current positions and discourses into account. The major question still remains, namely how to create culturally based resistance under the influence of capitalistic pressure and conservative politics.[157]

See also

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References

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