Earlier this month, Anonymous announced Operation: Nimr (#OpNimr), calling for the IOC (International Olympic Committee) to band the country of Saudi Arabia from the upcoming summer olympics. As usual, Twitter has lit up with Anon-Hacktivist jargon; and equally as predictably, it hasn’t travelled further from there. Granted, it’s quite a viable operation, and if Read More…
Hacktivism
Has the American Hacktivist Movement Been Compromised?
In the Alternative News community, it has always been a foundational understanding that the Mainstream Media is a propaganda matrix of information, with an agenda that is backed up by the dollar of corporate America. More and more people in the past few years have woken up to this notion, and stations like FOX, CNN, Read More…
LulzXmas and the Gift of Full Disclosure
To the benefit of Americans, the term “WikiLeaks” has become something of a household name. Between Assange’s brainchild and the worldwide hacker-collective, Anonymous, it’s most assured that the true gravity of hacktivism, whether known by this term or not, can be felt right down to the average home. Renowned hacker collectives such as Anon or Read More…
Anonymous: The Last Grasp for American Freedom
From aiding cultural revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt to declaring “political war” on the US shadow government, Anonymous has made quite a reputation for itself since its multinational inception. Through the fiber-optic cables and glass monitors that help create the internet, the amorphous and ever-shifting entity with the face of Guy Fawkes should be considered Read More…