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Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience or Cyber Crime?

By Christie Thompson, ProPublica —

Internet activist Aaron Swartz was facing up to 13 felony counts and 50 years in prison at the time of his death. His alleged crime? Pulling millions of academic articles from JSTOR. Swartz’s downloads were criminalized under the federal CFAA, an act designed to prosecute hackers. But as his case demonstrates, you don’t necessarily have to be a hacker to be viewed as one by federal law.

Posted on Jan 19, 2013 READ MORE

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Anonymous’ Next Target: Revenge Porn King Hunter Moore

Hacktivist group Anonymous is going after the former owner of a “revenge porn” site that posted naked photographs of men and women along with their social media accounts. The pictures were often sent by vengeful exes and were published without the people’s permission.

Posted on Dec 6, 2012 READ MORE

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Anonymous Launches Investigative Research Branch

The hacker collective Anonymous launched a division devoted to investigative reporting last month, marking a departure from the group’s traditional practice of exposing corporations through hacking attacks. (more)

Posted on Oct 2, 2011 READ MORE | 9 COMMENTS

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Anonymous Strikes U.S. Law Enforcement Sites

The hacking group Anonymous took credit Saturday for the theft of a cache of data from rural American law enforcement websites in retaliation for arrests of associates and sympathizers in the United States and Britain. (more)

Posted on Aug 7, 2011 READ MORE | 1 COMMENT

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Alleged Anonymous Hackers Are Busted

Federal agents nabbed 14 people across the country Tuesday in connection with alleged attacks by the hacker group Anonymous against the websites of numerous corporations, in what looks to be the largest such roundup ever on U.S. soil. (more)

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 READ MORE | 9 COMMENTS

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Hackers Arrested as Turkey Embraces Big Brother

Turkish police made a successful foray into the hacking community Monday with the arrests of 32 suspected local members of Anonymous after the group’s attack on a government telecommunications website Thursday.