Tech Patriots: The Rise of the Hacktivist #infographic

Published by Web Desk Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Based on who's telling the story, propagators of today's cyber attacks are typically called as cyber criminals or hacktivists. It's easy to see the difference in connotations here; the first is a nefarious, mysterious, generally bad term, while the second gives a more human, heroic, or at least admirably rebellious light to the attacks. A large amount of hackers lurking on the web are really black hat criminals and nihilists, looking to steal your credit card data or cause a general interweb chaos, but since its early days hacking has always been a morally ambiguous activity. Many early hackers were curious software nerds — interested in how systems worked and excited by the challenge of gaining access to places they weren't supposed to — and many hackers still fall into this group today. But between the nefarious and the curious lies a growing gray area among the hacking community. Here is an infographic representing the hacktivism.


Infographic by: whoishostingthis

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