Hi Sodoers!

“Hacktivism is a form of political activism, also referred to as being part of cyberactivism. It is a hybrid expression linking both hacking and activism, whereby hacktivists make use of the internet ... Political hackers are thereby trying to achieve a certain political and societal change, shift, statement, or behaviour by using technical mechanisms against e.g., political parties, governments, organisations, etc. by using this technological tools."

There is a young lady named Leonie who lives in Belfast and is working on her Master's Thesis at Queen's University there who would like to talk to some hacktivists to help her understand what hacktivists are, what we do, and how we see ourselves versus how people outside our group see us. This is good research IMO because it helps break down the images of "hacktivism" as being about destruction of websites and DDoS attacks -- concepts that were part of her initial working definition of "hacktivist" when she applied for her human subjects permit a year ago.

When I think of "Hacktivism" I think of many people, but I ESPECIALLY think of sudoroom. You guys are super activists in all the ways that I hold dear, so I hope that some of you will reach out to Leonie and take part in her research.

You can reach her at Leonie Tanczer <ltanczer01@qub.ac.uk>. If you wish to send her encrypted email, her public key is posted on http://pgp.mit.edu and the fingerprint that I have for her in my own keychain is

3AA3 3037 6DF0 A649 63BC FB22 3417 15C5 FF72 36C2

- Lisha

PS I miss you guys!

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