- Patriot hacking
Patriot hacking is a controversial term for
computer hacking orsystem cracking in which a citizens or supporters of a country, traditionally industrialized Western countries but increasingly developing countries, attempts to perpetrate attacks on, or block attacks by, perceived enemies of the state. Recent media attention has focused on efforts related to terrorists and their own attempts to conduct an online or electronicIntifada . Articles on the subject collected at www.patriothacking.com [http://www.patriothacking.com]Patriot hacking is illegal in countries such as the
United States yet is on the rise elsewhere. "The FBI said that recent experience showed that an increase in international tension was mirrored in the online world with a rise in cyber activity such as web defacements and denial of service attacks," according to theBBC . [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2760899.stm]At the onset of the
War in Iraq in 2003, the FBI was concerned about the increase in hack attacks as the intensity of the conflict grew. Since then, it has been becoming increasingly popular in theNorth America ,Western Europe andIsrael . These are the countries which have the greatest threat toIslamic terrorism and its aforementioned digital version.The
People's Republic of China is allegedly making attacks upon the computer networks of the United States of America and theUnited Kingdom . MPAndrew MacKinlay claims that the recent attacks had at least the approval of the Chinese Government.President George W. Bush says he may bring up the issue with Chinese leaderHu Jintao . [http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070906/ttc-britain-china-intelligence-it-8b21ac8_1.html1 [http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20070906/tuk-chinese-army-hackers-target-whitehal-dba1618_1.html2
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