Archive for the 'Hacktivism' Category

• 9.7.07 Canada imposters crash APEC posted in Canada, Hacktivism, News Monitor

  An Australian comedy group impersonated the Canadian delegation to APEC and managed to drive their motorcade into a restricted area before they were arrested:
  Eleven of the pretend Canadians — all cast or crew from the satirical Australian television show The Chaser’s War on Everything, including one comic in an Osama bin Laden get-up — were [...]

• 8.27.07 Agents Provocateurs posted in Canada, Hacktivism, News Monitor

  Faced with video uploaded to YouTube the Sûreté du Québec have been forced to admit that they infiltrated the protest the summit in Montebello. Armed with rocks the fake protesters pushed their way to the police line and were confronted and uncovered by peaceful protesters. The SPP have now promised, after initial resistance, to conduct [...]

• 7.27.06 X Marks the Spot posted in Hacktivism, Uncategorized

  After the French Government tried to get GreenPeace to remove a GoogleMap from their site that showed the location of secret, genetically modified maise GP marked the spot with a crop circle.
  The map has apparently been removed from the GreenPeace France website.

• 12.9.05 Detecting & Evading Filtering posted in Censorship Circumvention, Filtering Technology, Hacktivism, Internet Censorship, Uncategorized

  At the Internet & Democracy 2005 conference in London we had a session on “Detecting and Evading Filtering”. The goal was to explain some techniques used to better determine filtering and give an overview of the ONI methodology.
  In the second half of the presentation we focused on censorship circumvention. I like to talk about circumvention [...]

• 1.5.05 Fifth HOPE Audio Files Available posted in Hacktivism, Uncategorized

  The audio files from 2600’s Fifth Hope are now available. I spoke on the Cult of the Dead Cow’s Hacktivism Panel. The audio file in mp3 format are available:
  Part 1: cdc-hacktivism-1.mp3
  Part 2: cdc-hacktivism-2.mp3
  An earlier blog entry with my ppt slides is available here.