From: Gabriella "Biella" Coleman <enid.cole...@mcgill.ca> Hi all,
I am writing a piece that is trying to historicize direct action hacking/whistelblowing and am trying to pin point any early examples of hackers hacking in order to access and then leak the information/emails to expose wrong doing.. Obviously Anonymous popularized the tactic and prior to them there are many examples of black hat groups engaging in revenge hacking/doxing (and the leaked emails likely had that sort of relevant information) but I am looking for examples that pre-date Anonymous and that more explicitly follow the whistle blowing mold, if this exists. One of the earliest and only examples I have is a hack against the Church of Scientology (which is very fitting but)... Just to be clear too: I am not interested in early hacktivist interventions per se, like DDoS, or web site defacements, or even dumping of data like credit cards for politics sabotage, but only one instance: whereby the hack led to evidence (via documents or emails) of wrong doing. Thanks! Biella -- Gabriella Coleman Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5 http://gabriellacoleman.org/ 514-398-8572 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
