The Case of 'Mafiaboy' and the Rhetorical Limits of Hacktivism
This article analyses the "Mafiaboy" case of 2000, in which a teenage hacker from Montréal brought down several blue chip American Web sites. What makes the subsequent court case compelling is that the categories and distinctions developed in the academic literature on hacker culture were...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Humanities Press
2006-01-01
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| Series: | Fibreculture Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://nine.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-057/ |