[sudo-discuss] Hacktivists For Science!

[William Budington]

This is great!  I'm totally willing to be interviewed. Myself and a few
others that I'm sure are willing to be interviewed put on a conference
called HackMeet every year right here in the bay, for the express
purpose of bringing together activist and hacker communities.

Bill



On 06/06/2013 03:13 AM, Lisha Sterling wrote:
> Hi Sodoers!
> 
> “Hacktivism is a form of political activism, also referred to as being part
> of  cyberactivism. It is a hybrid expression linking both hacking and
> activism, whereby hacktivists make use of the internet ... Political hackers
> are thereby trying to achieve a certain political and societal change,
> shift, statement, or behaviour by using technical mechanisms against e.g.,
> political parties, governments, organisations, etc. by using this technological
> tools."
> 
> There is a young lady named Leonie who lives in Belfast and is working on
> her Master's Thesis at Queen's University there who would like to talk to
> some hacktivists to help her understand what hacktivists are, what we do,
> and how we see ourselves versus how people outside our group see us. This
> is good research IMO because it helps break down the images of "hacktivism"
> as being about destruction of websites and DDoS attacks -- concepts that
> were part of her initial working definition of "hacktivist" when she
> applied for her human subjects permit a year ago.
> 
> When I think of "Hacktivism" I think of many people, but I ESPECIALLY think
> of sudoroom. You guys are super activists in all the ways that I hold dear,
> so I hope that some of you will reach out to Leonie and take part in her
> research.
> 
> You can reach her at Leonie Tanczer <ltanczer01 at qub.ac.uk>. If you wish to
> send her encrypted email, her public key is posted on
> http://pgp.mit.eduand the fingerprint that I have for her in my own
> keychain is
> 3AA3 3037 6DF0 A649 63BC FB22 3417 15C5 FF72 36C2
> 
> - Lisha
> 
> PS I miss you guys!
> 
> 
> 
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