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Computer Hacking New Tool of Political ActivismComputer Hacking New Tool of Political Activism By Naomi KleinFrom The Toronto Star, July 23, 1998Imagine if computer hackers, the daredevils of the networked world, suddenlybecame principled political activists.Imagine if they had a mission besides breaking and entering; if they hadmore to prove than that they are smarter than whoever designed your computersystem. Imagine if their targets were selected as part of well organized,thoroughly researched, international human rights campaigns. In truth, "really good hackers use their skills like a chess game,"explains Oxblood Ruffin, the name used by the Foreign Minister of the Cultof the Dead Cow, one of the oldest and most infamous hacker cabals.Most hackers aren't out to destroy, just to gain access and say they did. When they slide into a supposedly secure network, its checkmate time. Theinvaded institution then has two choices: call the police or offer the kida job. "Good hackers", Ruffin says, "are the richest 21-year-oldsI know." But Ruffin is among a growing group of outlaw programmers determined tomake hacking more than job interviewing as an extreme sport. They are beginningto experiment with the mind-blowing skill locked in the global network ofhackers as a powerful political tool for what Ruffin calls "human rightshacking." Over the past few months, there has been an upsurge in political hacks,the highest profile of which was pulled off by a group of teenagers fromEngland and New Zealand in June. Protesting the nuclear tests, three teensbroke into the computer system at India's Bhabba Atomic Research Centre,downloaded top secret documents and replaced Websites with a site of theirown: a mushroom cloud and an anti-war message.The real message was the fact of the hack: if the weapons system isn't safefrom a bunch of meddling teens, how can these so-called security expertsbe expected to prevent disaster when an actual enemy is after them? A less invasive approach to political hacking is the "virtual sit-in,"a technique developed by New York-based supporters of the Zapatistas' struggleagainst the Mexican government. At a designated date and time each month,the group has tried to overload key Mexican and American Websites by floodingthem with simultaneous hits from cyber protesters. All of this isrelatively benign, however, compared to what is in store from the Hong KongBlondes. The Blondes are the hacker wing of China's pro-democracy movement,scattered around the world and forced underground after Tiananmen. On July7, days after Bill Clinton returned from his trip to China, Blondie Wong,the pseudonymous director of the Blondes, met with Ruffin and the two wentpublic with a new level in political hacking: the Yellow Pages.In their conversation, a rare publiccommunication from the Blondes, Wong says the U.S. foreign relationsagenda with Beijing has been hijacked by corporations wanting access tothe Chinese market. "Beijing successfully went around Congress andstraight to American business, so in effect, businessmen started dictatingforeign policy," he says.What they have dictated is a situation where trade is so open, there isno longer any incentive left for the Chinese government to reform. If changeis to come, Wong reasons, pro-democracy activists must target their actionsat the multinationals pulling the political strings. "By taking theside of profit over conscience, business has set our struggle back so farthat they have become our oppressors too." The implications of this are profound. The Blondes are highly skilled computerscientists and astrophysicists who have already claimed responsibility forshutting down a Chinese government communications satellite. They have operativesaround the world, including, according to Wong, several members inside theCommunist party.Now they are tapping into the wider hacker community. The Yellow Pages area group based in California which formed to support the Blondes' politicalgoals by targeting the computer systems of multinationals in China."Human rights is an international issue, so I don't have a problemwith businesses that profit from our suffering paying part of the bill.Perhaps they will see the wisdom of putting some conditions on trade,"Wong says.And here's the kicker: Blondie Wong lives in Toronto. Ruffin seems to spendquite a bit of time here, too. Marshall McLuhan wrote that "World WarIII would be a guerilla information war with no division between civilianand military participation."Wouldn't he be proud to know that the first salvos were being fired fromhis home town?Return to Human Rights In China Page Email |
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