Friday, November 30, 2007
Organized Hackers
I think that cyber hactivism is a very scary concept. After watching the video in class and reading " JAPAN: Organized Chinese hackers hit official Japan sites", from The Japan Times it seems to me that this is warfare. In the article, hackers from China attacked Japanese and Taiwanese websites. They did this because of attacks on their websites from Japan and Taiwan. These attacks were carried out by a large number of hackers coming to the websites simultaneously.
" The newspaper Wen Wei Po said groups organized 1,900 hackers to launch a
massive attack on more than 200 official Web sites in Japan and Taiwan on
Monday. The attack was scheduled to continue for a week, it said.The daily said the hackers were divided into five groups, each responsible for different tasks."
I'm confused about why attacking websites is so dangerous.
"Dozens of Japanese official Web sites, including the Foreign Ministry, NationalI can understand hacking into secret databases or defense computers but just hacking into websites seems minor. Maybe because the next step could be ruining the economy through computers or maybe I'm just missing something. Hopefully I can gain more insight.
Police Agency, Japan Coast Guard and Defense Agency, and some official Taiwan
Web sites were shut down, the report says."
Labels: China, cyber hacking, Japan, Taiwan
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A very good discussion of the issue.
Clearly, taking down a website is not the same as blowing up a building. Is a website a form of speech? Is taking down or defacing a website a form of political protest or political terrorism? We want to becareful about tossing the label of terrorist around too freely.
Taking down an informational public website is not the same as hacking into some kind of secure command and control system that could do real damage.
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Clearly, taking down a website is not the same as blowing up a building. Is a website a form of speech? Is taking down or defacing a website a form of political protest or political terrorism? We want to becareful about tossing the label of terrorist around too freely.
Taking down an informational public website is not the same as hacking into some kind of secure command and control system that could do real damage.
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