HACKTIVISM – MIJLOACE ȘI MOTIVAȚII
HACKTIVISM – MEANS AND MOTIVATIONS

Summary/Abstract: Technological innovations have provided the protesters the ability to use hacking tools to conduct cyber operations similar to street protests. This mixture of hacking with activism, known as "hacktivism" has become increasingly prevalent and has become nowadays normality. Hacktivism is a challenge for international affairs, not only because it transcends borders, but also because it has become an instrument of national power. The fight for freedom of expression, human rights, total aversion to any form of supervision and control as well as reporting totalitarian regimes abuses are the main reasons that trigger the actions of the hacktivist groups.Hacktivism's strength lies in its ability to recruit a large number of supporters through democratic instruments of the Internet and the social networks. Groups such as Anomymous are able to engage each time new forces in the operation, that give them the opportunity to transform a protest into a voice of a choir joining cries for revenge. Analyzing hacktivist groups in terms of security, we note that their actions represent danger to society, like any other kind of cybercrime. The limit of interpretation of an operation as a simple form of protest or as an act of cybercrime is thin. For this reason, a priority should be the establishment of a framework to regulate those acts which exceed the limit for those responsible to be held accountable. And maybe that it is now the time for the adoption of a restrictive legislation due to fact that a campaign to that end would benefit of the public opinion support taking into account that the media continue to consider that hackers and hacktivists are the same.

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