Hi all, I am writing a piece that is trying to historicize direct action hacking/whistel blowing and am trying to pin point any early examples of hackers hacking in order to access and then leak the information/emails to ex pose wrong doing..
Obviously Anonymous popularized the tactic and prior to them there are many exam ples 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 Sci entology (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 card s 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 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
