Summary: Michael Yip & Craig Webber
17 June 2011
Hacktivism


A Theoretical and Empirical
Exploration of China's Cyber Warriors
ACM Web Science 2011
3rd International Conference on Web Science,
Koblenz, Germany, 14-17 June 2011
Hacktivism
· Hacktivism: hacking + political activism
(Denning 2001)
· Wikileaks and Anonymous
· Lack of academic research on the "why"
· Reasoning the emergence of "freelance"
Chinese hacktivism
Forums are used to:
· organise attacks
· attract public support

Source: Anderson, Jim - School of Mathematics, University of Southampton

Collections: Mathematics