'Anonymous Hacktivism'

'Hacking has been around for a while; branch with telephones and on to computers, merely there is a specific typeface of hackers that argon coarse and commonly in truth social in the public today. They are called hacktivists. Hacktivists are hackers that foster social or political causes. They are basically online activists and protesters. Hacktivism is a nonviolent path of protest and fuel be make illegally or legally. Hacktivists also do not continuously act alone. just about hacktivists form groups. These groups sight become muscular and cope support of parts of the weather vane. entirely of them have their give intents, usually none of them bad, and act on them through them web to try and locate a pass on to who they are protesting against. \nI have chosen a group of hacktivists to research. This group of hacktivists is called unidentified. unknowns public figure was inspired by how users could post items on the internet anonymously. This initiative n otable exemplification seen of anon. was in 2003 with the 4chan snaps. unidentified would raid the website with pranks and gags and as that happened 4chans website traffic increase greatly. One of the around famous incidents of nameless is the hurtle Chanology incident, in 2008. In Project Chanology, Anonymous targeted Scientology. This is when they first became associated with hacktivism. 4chan users organized and raided the church building after qualification Tom journey a earn in ravishment of copyright after earlier praising the religion. They prank called the Church, direct faxes to waste ink, and move Distri just nowed Denial of gain attacks against their websites. Several were arrested, but later Anonymous launched a flick against the Church manifestation they will take them off the internet. This caused large protest for a few months therefore gradually died down. Anonymous also participated in the Occupy fence Street bm and many others. Anonymous was also illustrious one of the surpass 100 well-nigh influential peck in the world by magazine magazine in 2012, even though they...'