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 government censorship of the Web. From New York Times
Protests as we know them seem to have lost their urgency. But guess where it’s gaining steam Street marches may be the peace movement’s equivalent of heavy armor and lots of infantry—which has been supplanted by high-tech weaponry that supposedly requires fewer troops. Maybe rather than taking to the public square, protestors should have taken… Read more »
If your site contains material critical of certain governments or you run a porn site, someone, somewhere is blocking access to your content. Now you can find out who’s doing it, but the method — port-scanning technology — may itself be unethical. From Wired
Want to learn about hacktivism from a “heroin addict teaching Fuck the State”? East Van Rules! From The Independent
The best intelligence suggests that the next major military strike by the Bush administration, now drumming up support for an imminent war on Iraq, will draw in response an equally intense virtual assault. From last year, thanks to Widdershins. From the Village Voice
Declan McCullagh comments on the prospects of infowar and current Petagon thinking on the matter of cyber attack. From ZDNet
Some security experts are pointing to the Far East as the birthplace of the worm that wreaked havoc over the weekend for Internet servers worldwide. The Sapphire worm–also known as Slammer and SQLExp–exploits vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL 2000 Web servers and causes increased traffic between servers. From CNET
Hey U of T students, here’s a suggestion: plan a major in applied hacking. You’re going to need it – assuming, that is, you care at all about the society in which you live. From the Independent Weekly
“Gobbles”, the German hacker who improbably claimed to have infected peer-to-peer file sharing networks and to “0wn” your computer this week, has confirmed that his brag was a hoax. That much, you probably suspected, as Goebbels (as we must now call him) failed to offer a shred of evidence in support of the notion that… Read more »
