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Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference

7 months ago by fartington to c/technology

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A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
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FilthyShrooms 472 points 7 months ago

“They publicly delete all my websites while the audience rejoices. This is cyberterrorism,” the administrator wrote on X

Lmao mald harder

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Knightfox 61 points 7 months ago

I mean, it is technically true, but in a trial with a jury of peers it wouldn't matter. This reminds me of the old school outlaw definition. If you were declared an outlaw the laws of the land no longer applied to you. You could commit crimes, but it also meant anyone and everyone could commit crimes against you without repercussions. It was a bit of a given that you would commit crimes because if you were declared an outlaw you probably were already committing crimes, but now anyone could rob, harm, or even kill you and it wouldn't be a crime.

I say fuck these neo-nazis but this is cyber terrorism technically.

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chaitae3 40 points 7 months ago

Terrorism is the use of force against civilians to influence a nation's policy. This is not it.

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Knightfox 0 points 7 months ago

I agreed with another comment that this is probably not cyber terrorism, because definitions of cyber terrorism indicate a wide spread impact on people while this only impacts a relatively small group. Your definition isn't quite right either as one potential goal for cyber terrorism is to cause disruption or fear. Terrorism as a general term may be politically motivated but it doesn't have to have the goal of influencing policy directly. Technically revenge can be a goal of terrorism.

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