Many people have being arguing about hacktivist is good or bad. The actions of hacking is illegal but what about the purpose of hacking? The actions that Anonymous have done are seem ethical to me, their actions were ethical reflected on many hacktivist, they are hacking for society to make it better. Even their hacking are without consent that are considered illegal. But their purpose to hacking and what they did are ethical. They try to do good and they do not do to much bad. What they did, some of them were good for the society, some of them hacking for revenge. But they do things limited, they do not overdo in each event. They do not support violence and it means they really do not want to hurt anybody.
Anonymous is a international hacktivist organization. The symbol of this organization is “man without a head”, it is represent it is a leaderless organization and anonymity. It means anyone can claim to represent the organization or belong to this organization. The anonymous who appear in public, some of them will wear Guy Fawkes masks to shows they are a part of the Anonymous group. This organization originated since in 2003 on a website which called 4chan. The key point of this organization is call “internet freedom”.
In 2008, this organization invaded a religious organization’s website which is called Church of Scientology. Anonymous organization has thousands of members. Those members were divided into dozens of people in each small group, they responded to various events. Anons had been doing this because the Church of Scientology’s reaction to Anonymous, they were calling Anonymous cyber-terrorists, KKK members, religion bigots, Fascists, Nazis and communists in a press release. Anonymous was hacking this just for ...
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In May 13, 2013, the Anons invaded to the official websites of the Philippine each agency. They asked the Philippines to apologize for their Coast Guard had shotted the Taiwan fishermen in May 9. The Anons cracked their DNS server database and published the database account’s password. In this event, Anonymous stand up for Taiwan. They did not hack for themself, for their own purpose. They were hacking for Taiwan fishermen who had shotted by the Philippines Coast Guard.
The hacktivist that Anonymous have done were seem ethical to me, although that hacking is illegal. They hacking is try to make the society better. They have not hurt anyone, sometime they even hacking for other people not for themself. They do not overdo things. Anonymous’s attack just for maintain the internet freedom, they just hacker not terrorist.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that hacktivists are good or bad, but what about the purpose of hacking?
- Explains that anonymous is an international hacktivist organization. the symbol of this organization is "man without a head".
- Explains how anonymous invaded a religious organization's website called church of scientology in 2008, calling anonymous cyber-terrorists, kkk members, religion bigots and nazis.
- Explains that anonymous had captured and shut down a underground pedophile website called lolita city, which had more than 100g of porn data.
- Explains how anons attacked companies that no longer had cooperation with wiki leaks. paypal said that their attack just made the payment rate slow down.
- Analyzes how the anons invaded the official news website of north korea and uploaded the photos that vilified kim jong-un.
- Explains how the anons invaded philippine websites and asked the philippines to apologize for their coast guard shooting of taiwan fishermen.
- Opines that the hacktivists anonymous have done are ethical, although hacking is illegal. they hack to make the society better.
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- Introduces richard d. alexander, the biology of moral systems, hawthorne, n.y., a. de gruyter, 1987.
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- Analyzes how phillip serracino-inglott's paper, "is it ok to be an anonymous?" explores the organization of anonymous.
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- Explains that steven levy established six principles for hacker code of ethics, which are limited computer access, free use of information, mistrusted- authority, examination, creation, and support in life for advancement.
144 wordsRead More - Hacktivism at Its Bestopinion essayMany people through out the world use the internet in way you can’t imagine. Hacktivism being a virtual way to make a statement for the world to see is only the beginning. A recent demonstration of hacktivism followed the death of a Chinese airman when his jet fighter collided with a U.S. surveillance plane in April 2001. Chinese and American hacktivist from both countries hacked Web sites and used them as "blackboards" for their statements. This is only an example of what hacktivist are capable of. This in my opinion is not ethical. I do understand they are making a point but the way to make the point is all wrong.
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- Opines that hacktivism is a virtual way to make statements for the world to see. a recent demonstration of hacktivists followed the death of an american airman when his jet fighter collided with the u.s.
- Explains that many jobs have ethical rules or guidelines that are to always be followed but aren't. some people fine loop holes around everything.
- Opines that hacktivism is a crime, which can be debated in many areas. it has caused damage in the virtual world and crossed over to reality.
- Explains that anonymous hacktivists use their collective expertise to manipulate the system in a way that, to their followers, is morally right. they have more than freedom of speech but are not using the justice system.
- Opines that there is no legitimate way to be a hacktivist without breaking the law.
- Opines that hacktivists are considered to be of major concern, as their technical knowledge is wasted on exploits when it could be applied to noble causes.
- Opines that hackers have an ethical and unethical way of doing things, and that they should suffer consequences and deal with the law.
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- Analyzes how hacktivists show society what the new problems are in the world without permission of the law. the fear people have of hackers is about the same as criminals on the street.
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