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Pris dans son ensemble, le concept d’Anonymous désigne une réalité vaste et complexe ; ce nom prend actuellement tout son sens dans un monde dans lequel son rôle est de coordonner une série d’initiatives décousues, lesquelles vont du trolling aux revendications politiques. NYU Steinhardt est un département de la New York University. Son crédo est de développer des liens entre les communautés et les cultures, et d’utiliser l’éducation comme un instrument du changement pour une meilleure qualité de vie à travers le monde. Sa mission est de faire avancer les savoirs, la créativité et l’innovation à la croisée des apprentissages. L’Histoire d’Anonymous

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While the traditional media and the United States government continue to fixate on the individual Julian Assange, a not so subtle cultural shift is taking root worldwide: Hacktivist culture is rapidly morphing from a small underground subculture into mainstream culture for a younger generation, not just in the United States, but worldwide. Julian Assange and WikiLeaks did not start this cultural movement, but they have served as a catalyst for its robust growth and worldwide propagation. And while the new generation of hacktivists has Wikileaks as its model, they also grew up in the era of George W. Urizenus Sklar: Generation W: WikiLeaks Ignites a New Generation of Hacktivists

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The group has taken credit for numerous attacks, including against Bank of America, Sony and the Malaysian government. One of the difficulties authorities have had tracking down hacking attacks is that they can be launched from anywhere and can come from an individual who can mask his location. US authorities on Tuesday arrested 16 people on charges they participated in major cyber attacks, including the crippling of eBay's PayPal website as retribution for dropping WikiLeaks as a client. FBI agents arrested 14 people in nine states and Washington, DC, for the PayPal attack , which occurred last December and was allegedly coordinated by the hacking group Anonymous. It was the biggest response by authorities tied to a recent spate of high-profile cyber attacks. Who are Anonymous?

When Anonymous first made big headlines in early 2008 with its protests against the Church of Scientology, dubbed Project Chanology , it was not yet apparent that Anonymous would be here to stay. Three years later, Anonymous has not only gained a sizeable collection of adversaries and critics – including government agencies, IT security companies and digital rights advocacies who criticise its methods – it has also won scores of secret and not so secret admirers, especially among the highly social media literate, digital creative class. The reputation of its members as defenders of truth and seekers of knowledge, digital avengers who cannot be lied to because they will hijack the emails of those who try, seems to strike a chord with many. What has remained unclear is just who or what Anonymous is. Anonymous: peering behind the mask | Technology

Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value. In 17th-century England, the social equality and merit-ocracy of coffee houses was so deeply troubling to those in power that King Charles II tried to suppress them for being "places where the disaffected met, and spread scandalous reports concerning the conduct of His Majesty and his Ministers". It was in the coffee houses that information previously held in secret and by elites was shared with an emerging middle class. They were held responsible for many of the social reforms of the 18th century, when English public life was transformed. Inside the secret world of hackers | Technology

Hackers to FBI: 'We are not scared anymore' Hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec, which had 16 of their alleged members arrested this week in the U.S. by the FBI, don't usually respond to statements written or made about them. But when the FBI's deputy assistant director gave an interview to NPR saying those arrests send "a message that chaos on the Internet is unacceptable," the hacking collective erupted, with a statement of its own: We are not scared any more. Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir. It is our mission to help these people and there is nothing — absolutely nothing — you can possibly to do make us stop.

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“The internet is direct democracy.” Paul Jorion is an anthropologist who blogs about economic and financial issues. In 2005, he was one of the first to predict the subprime crisis and subsequent recession. Today, in his new book, The Digital Civil War , he goes over the Wikileaks scandal and the political reactions that came with it. He shows a picture of extreme tension, a situation he describes as “pre-revolutionary.” What incited you to write The Digital Civil War?

In February the Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason very succinctly laid out the radically different nature of recent popular uprisings across North Africa, the Middle East and Europe compared to earlier political movements, and the economic and sociological reasons behind it. This incisive blogpost rang true for many of those involved in those social movements, articulating, as it did, a new sentiment and new political priorities amongst those populations. The short article sketched out a more cohesive image which the media in general was missing, partly through structural failings, but largely because events were unfolding at speed and trying to drag the chaotic events into an understandable analysis was difficult. Twenty reasons why it’s kicking off in cyberspace | Deterritorial Support Group

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Would the world be a better place if Electronic Disruption was completely legal? | Medialternatives THE electronic disruption of Internet traffic to several sites associated with the censorship of Wikileaks over the past months, has riveted public attention on the predicament of online civil disobedience in particular the use of distributed denial of service (DDoS) as a form of protest. The digital protests carried out by hacktivist group Anonymous, we know, saw the denial of service to Paypal and Mastercard and the subsequent arrest of teenagers in Britain and the Netherlands. Some forty searches and seizure of equipment were also made in the United States , although it is unclear as I write this, whether or not anybody has been actually arrested and charged. The self-described virtual sit-ins deployed metaphors of the lunch counter sit-ins of the civil rights movement as well as the freedom protests in Tienanmen Square where the fax machine had come to the fore as a means of placing pressure on the Chinese regime by flooding telephone numbers with information.

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Hacking et engagement Depuis près d’un an, on entend régulièrement parler des coups d’éclats et de l’engagement politique des hackers, ces bidouilleurs informatiques. De Wikileaks à Botzaris36, en passant par Hadopi et la Syrie, rencontre avec trois de ces militants de la toile. Kheops et Bluetouff "agents" Telecomix Le groupe le plus célèbre est sans conteste celui des Anonymous qui, depuis cet hiver, a multiplié les attaques pour défendre wikileaks en s’en prenant à Amazon, Paypal, Mastercard et autres géants. Récemment, c’est un autre groupe Telecomix qui s’est illustré en venant en aide aux internautes Tunisiens, aux Egyptiens et aux Syriens , il y a quelques jours.

_ | \ | \ | | \ __ | |\ \ __ _____________ _/_/ | | \ \ _/_/ _____________ | ___________ _/_/ | | \ \ _/_/ ___________ | | | _/_/_____ | | > > _/_/_____ | | | | /________/ | | / / /________/ | | | | | | / / | | | | | |/ / | | | | | | / | | | | | / | | | | |_/ | | | | | | | | c o m m u n i c a t i o n s | | | |________________________________________________________________| | |____________________________________________________________________| ...presents... Hacktivism, From Here to There by Oxblood Ruffin __//////\ -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc- /\\\\\\__ Est. 1984 \\\\\\/ cDc paramedia: text #384-06/03/2004 \////// Est. 1984 ___ _ _ ___ _ _ ___ _ _ ___ _ _ __ |___heal_the_sick___raise_the_dead___cleanse_the_lepers___cast_out_demons__| [The following paper was presented March 28, 2004 at Yale Law School as part of the CyberCrime and Digital Law Enforcement Conference.] "cDc. Show and prove." I've never thought there was a lot of debate about the meaning of hacktivism. cDc paramedia: text #384

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