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With the great impact of the hacktivist group Anonymou, many people started wondering about the true value of being hacker, and how this movement is taking a twist in our understanding of the condition of hackers in the Western society. The media publicity that is generated with each of the operations carried out by Anonymous, is transforming the way of protesting, defend our rights and politics in the real and virtual world. It is because of these reasons that the image of the hackers should stop being demonized. Hackers are making a change by giving the pattern of how to speak out against corporate fascism.
Since the outbreak of the Internet phenomenon worldwide, we are accustomed to hearing about hackers and their various illegal activities. While it is true that some have been arrested for bank fraud and theft, not all of them work the same way. Similarly the image of the hacker has been mythologized, a few years ago, the movie Matrix fascinated us with its leather-clad characters within the virtual reality to which they were condemned to live, but in which they were righteous, seeking a way out of the machine control. All those who were freed from the Matrix, proved to be just hackers, people with a mastery of computers out of the ordinary and with the ability to develop new forms of network communication.
Nowadays, the tools at our disposal, with both operating systems PCs and Mac are much more “user friendly” than before. One need not be a programming expert to install and uninstall programs and applications, format memory disks, etc.. While companies seek to facilitate the use of its products to get a better commercial advantage, these features allow users to have better tools for education and study of hacktivism or hacker individually and without the slightest problem. If you are interested in the hacker world, feel free to search online forums and specialized websites. Knowledge still is not illegal.
If all the control measures that are being sought to impose throughout the network become real, it is very likely that we live our own Matrix, and that over the next few years is all Internet users have knowledge of programming and hacking. According to some “underground” rumors of the Darknet there are secret Internet domains available only to programmers. If the imposition of severe control laws, similar to SOPA and ACTA, under the pretext of protecting the intellectual rights of artists and musicians, we could lose information that may be essential to our survival as political subjects. Do not be surprised that more people are interested in these topics; being a hacker is not a crime. Slightly more info here: http://www.darknet.org.uk/
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