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‘Hacktivist’ #1: sympathy for the internet hate machine

09
Feb
2014

Nothing I say to introduce four-part comic miniseries Hacktivist can possibly be as compelling as the simple fact that its producer, Charmed actress Alyssa Milano, came up with the basic premise by imagining what might happen if Anonymous were really Jack Dorsey. The first issue of Hacktivist kicks off a loose, heavily fictionalized retelling of the Arab Spring, alternating between a group of Tunisian dissidents and a group called sve_Urs3lf, the most dangerous black hat hacker collective on the damn planet. Sve_Urs3lf is all but explicitly supposed to be Anonymous, whose members attacked Tunisian government websites in the midst of an online crackdown. In Hacktivist, however, the collective turns out to be protagonists Nate Graft and Ed Hiccox, the two youthful co-founders of wildly successful startup YourLife. If geek-power movies like The Fifth Estate and The Social Network arguably stretch the truth to make their subjects seem more like rock stars, Hacktivist goes deliriously and hilariously over the top in creating not just boy kings but hacker god kings.

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