Hackers against terrorism

In the weeks after the terrorist attacks in my home country Belgium, the hacker community Anonymous declared war by hacking to Daesh, or as they say in Amercia, ISIS.

While reading the Hacker: manifesto from 2004, written by McKenzie Wark, this video gets more context. Anonymous wants to transform the actual power of ISIS by touching their virtual reach. By breaking into the "behind of the scenes" of the terrorism group, they can engineer and take away the control and reach of the virtual potential connections of ISIS, trying to harm and destruct them in any way they can.

Their goals are clear:

"We will not rest as long as terrorists continue their actions around the world. We will strike back against them. We will keep hacking their websites, shutting down their Twitter accounts and stealing their bitcoins. We defend the rights of freedom and tolerance," - Anonymous

Criminals fighting criminals

Anonymous does not want to give freedom or open up commodification of information, not at all. It is the paradox that by doing the opposite for ISIS, they say they do enable freedom on a bigger real not virtual level. .

Normally this type of hacking and knotting the freedom by targetting a group is considered a criminal act and even against hacker rules. Because they do it to fight bigger criminals and even terrorists, people do not want to stop them. Hacking steps out from the virtual world of freedom to the actual world of freedom to stop attacks with their own attacks.

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