ITNET305A – Emerging Technologies Security
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Running head: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIESEmerging Technologies[Name of the Student][Name of the University][Author note]
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES1IntroductionHacktivism refers to the way of hacking or the breaking of someone into the system ofsomeone for the purpose of motivating the peoples in the field of political and social aspects. Thepersons who performs the act of hacktivism is known as hacktivist. A hacktivist uses the samemethods used by a hacker to break into the system but the breaking is done so as to disrupt thesystem and bring the attention of the users towards some political or social cause (Bodford andKwan 2017). One example of hacktivism is leaving a message that is highly visible on thehomepage of various website that gets a lot of traffic or the websites that are embodying a pointof view and is being opposed. Another example is the launching of the “Denial-of-Serviceattack” so as to disrupt the traffic in a certain cite. The debate always rises if the act of ahacktivist is a crime or not. Person who opposes the hacktivism says that hacktivism causes adisruption and damage in the forums that has an ample opportunity of free speech. Along withthis the peoples who are in favour of hacktivism says that this process is almost similar to aprotest which results in making it a protected and free form of speech (PytlikZillig et al 2015).DiscussionThe main goal of hacktivism is to highlight the issues and the causes that are responsiblefor the changes in a social world (Micali 2016). Hacktivism can also be considered as anactivism due to the fact that the achievement of goals by this process is done in a peacefulmanner. Hacktivism is also included in the components of hacking. People in favour ofhacktivism justifies hacktivism as the new form of protest, political activism or civildisobedience. As all this thing are justified then hacktivism is also justified. They also say thathacktivism is done for a good reason like confrontation of the corrupted government, they alsotargeted the sites for child pornography and many more (Aviles 2015). According to them all the
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES2information’s should be free and accessible to everyone. The primary agenda for them is the freeflow of the information’s. Production of social benefit is done by the exposure of the flaws of theinternet securities and encouraging the society to protest against the data. And according to thepeoples against the hacktivism says that everyone has their fundamental rights towards theirprivacy and hacktivist violets all this rights (Solomon 2017). Along with this people also haverights to property and hacktivist also violets this right. They also refer the hacktivists asvigilantes who are working outside the law. And one of the important thing is hacktivists arealways anonymous and there is no accountability for all this action making them enjoy the legalimpunity and are not able bought to justice in spite of doing harm to innocent peoples (Milan2015). They also say that hacktivists are responsible for the jeopardizing of the national security.LulzSec make an attack on the internet website named www.porn.com in the year of2011 and published almost around 26000 email addresses and their passwords in an attempt toconfront and embarrass the users. The confrontation included to officials from the Malaysiangovernment and three US military members. By this process an unexpected amount of responsefrom Facebook as they prevented the users having the same email address to access theFacebook accounts. LulzSec also attacked InfraGrade which is a partnership business with“Federal Bureau of Investigation” of US. In this attack the InfraGrade was defaced therebydamaging the Senate with release of some of the secure data which also made the site of CIA godown for almost two hours. Another attack it attempted was on the UK National Health Servicebut in this case it was for the public interest as it sends an email to the NHS informing them toincrease the security of their site by pointing out the vulnerabilities it found in it.Hacktivism is a nonviolent use of the illegal or legal ambiguous digital tools whichpursuits the political ends. This may include blocking or defacing of the websites so as to
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