Anonymous member Peter Fein deanonymizes himself in a video interview with BBC:
Anonymous ‘hactivist’ goes public on cyber protests
See also: My video interview with Fein and The Doctor.
From http://technoccult.net/archives/2012/05/13/anonymoustelecomix-hacktivist-peter-fein-speaks-out/
In this video I speak with Peter Fein and The Doctor of the digital activist group Telecomix, which worked to keep the Internet available in the middle east during the Arab Spring by providing dial-up Internet access and even using fax machines to send information into Libya. The Doctor also works on the wireless mesh darknet project Project Byzantium. In this interview we talk about what Telecomix does and why it matters.
This interview has been a long time coming. It was conducted at Contact Summit in October, 2011. It was recorded at the end of a long day and we were all pretty tired. Please excuse the background noise, this was the quietest place we could find.
See also:
Ars Technica’s article on darknets
An idea for solving the distance problem in wireless darknets from acrylicist
My lists of “government-less Internets”: Part 1 and Part 2
Technoccult posts on decentralizing the Web and/or Internet
From http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Technoccult/~3/c7sTGOM-fbw/
From SiliconAngle:
Hacktivism is the result of mashing up the words hack and activism and was coined in 1998 by Omega, a member of the Cult of the Dead Crow hacker crew. By definition, hacktivism is the use of computers and computer networks as a means of protest to promote political ends or “the nonviolent use of legal and/or illegal digital tools in pursuit of political ends”. Hacktivism can be in the form of web site defacements, redirects, denial-of-service attacks, information theft, web site parodies,virtual sit-ins, typosquatting, and virtual sabotage. Wikipedia also defines hacktivism as “the writing of code to promote political ideology: promoting expressive politics, free speech, human rights, and information ethics through software development.”
From http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Technoccult/~3/BRjbaS0pHy8/
TechCrunch TV interviews Bruce Sterling on Hacktivism at SXSW:
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