[Dyme]

I never understood why people randomly hack sites. Get a life.

[Google_SL]

Nothing happend, bad didn't expect.

[Bannedshee]

Name one website taken down that held significant information and had a reasonable level of traffic, such that people would have noticed it was down if a big deal hadn't been made of it.

Fbi.gov was taken down, the white houses official website, syrias government website was taken down, ect ect ect

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I never understood why people randomly hack sites. Get a life.

LOL! Randomly?

[w00t]

And how many people do you think use those sites regularly? Almost no one does. Only reason people go is because "LOL LEWK WAT ANONYMOOSE DEED!"

[Dismas]

And how many people do you think use those sites regularly? Almost no one does. Only reason people go is because "LOL LEWK WAT ANONYMOOSE DEED!"

Well yeah, that's kind of the point of hacktivism - to gain publicity. They want people to say "LOL LEWK WAT ANONYMOOSE DEED!"

[shizelkid]

Nice drawing w00t! How long did that take?

[w00t]

And how many people do you think use those sites regularly? Almost no one does. Only reason people go is because "LOL LEWK WAT ANONYMOOSE DEED!"

Well yeah, that's kind of the point of hacktivism - to gain publicity. They want people to say "LOL LEWK WAT ANONYMOOSE DEED!"

Right-o, but if you need to reach out to the press for people to notice your attacks, you're failing at cyberterrorism.

[Dismas]

And how many people do you think use those sites regularly? Almost no one does. Only reason people go is because "LOL LEWK WAT ANONYMOOSE DEED!"

Well yeah, that's kind of the point of hacktivism - to gain publicity. They want people to say "LOL LEWK WAT ANONYMOOSE DEED!"

Right-o, but if you need to reach out to the press for people to notice your attacks, you're failing at cyberterrorism.

Activism isn't cyberterrorism, it's the advocation of a particular cause.
Hacktivism should be about advocating a cause, not trying to terrorize people.

[w00t]

Activism is not, but because just assembling can't really be an effective activist action online, using terrorism, as defined by google as "The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims," is the only viable way to be an activist online.