Anonymous and the Arab uprisings
source: http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/42983-anonymous-and-the-arab-uprisings
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Anonymous’s rapid rise from the depths of geekdom to becoming a catalyst and nerve centre for real-life revolutionaries is one that has taken even some of its own members by surprise. The loosely-knit hive brings anonymous techies, hackers and, increasingly, activists together under a single appellation, united in their non-violent but often illegal collective action. With high-profile campaigns, centred on “distributed denial of service” (DDoS) attacks that knock target websites offline, it has been transformed from a fringe group of law-breaking pranksters that emerged in 2006 into an international movement that draws new recruits by their thousands. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/42983-anonymous-and-the-arab-up...
