Sunday, April 1, 2012

The Future is Now - The Dark Side and Hacktivism

The Future is Now - The Dark Side and Hacktivism


The Future is Now - The Dark Side and Hacktivism

Posted: 31 Mar 2012 05:00 AM PDT

We live in times when technology is exceeding the understanding of educational institutions and corporations. A highly social Web and a bad economy is making the Dark Side -- the Internet underworld where cybercrime and hacking run rampant -- overwhelming. Hacktivism is the new, hip thing; it has become a hobby for people with higher-than-average computer knowledge. The movement is led by an elite few who have a deep, lifelong knowledge of computers, and it includes senior Fortune 100 corporate executives and highly placed governmental employees, as well as the ranks of the unemployed.

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