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FLAMING RETORT: Hacktivism, hacking and hackers – what do these words really mean?

Aug

2011

I keep getting asked – by journalists, friends, colleagues, competitors, delegates at conferences, people on the bus – what my attitude is to hacktivism, hacking and hackers. I usually answer by saying, “What do you mean by hacktivism?” And the answer is frequently, and impassably, circular. “Y’know – all that hacking that hacktivists are doing […]

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Is Facebook the right place to report a crime?

Jun

2011

Ballarat, a country town in Victoria, Australia, has made the news today thanks to social networking. Under the headline Police tell users Facebook takes the complaints, regional newspaper The Courier reports: Flyers have been sent to several police stations in the region, urging residents to contact Facebook’s abuse department for minor matters rather than involve […]

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The LulzSec boat sails away. Was it worth the ride? Should you care?

Jun

2011

Just a day after the ‘retirement’ of hack-the-world-and-expose-random-people’s-data cyberbreach group LulzSec, and the official announcement is old news. The world is already in a questioning frenzy about what happens next. Sadly, the questions are often of an unanswerable sort: inviting speculation, possibly even wild speculation; or trying to squeeze conclusions from unsupportable, possibly even wildly […]

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