Hacktivism--Wikileaks and Anonymous

The second installment of my lecture on Hacker Culture.

• "White Hat" hackers use their hacking skills to prevent malicious hacking.
• Justifications for Hacking
• Break ins alert the society to security breaches
• Idle Machines
• Social Protector
•  Spafford focuses on the issue of data collection by companies, but there are other issues—e.g., freedom on the internet.
• (Not mentioned by Spafford) Protestor, civil disobedience, vigilante justice. [See Himma for a discussion]
• Wikileaks as engaging in hacktivisim. (If you don't know anything about Wikileaks, you can check our their website or the wikipedia page on them.)
• Note: I mention the "6-D's" they are consequences of digital media: denationalization, demassification, decentralization, despacialization, disintermediation, and disaggregation.
• Anonymous as hacktivists. Is Anonymous engaging in Civil Disobedience?
• Plus a bit about free speech and legal limits on it.