The rights and wrongs of hacktivism.

The article discusses the morality of denial of service (DOS) attacks on Web sites. Some firms including payments company Paypal have become targets of such attacks for refusing to do business with the whistle-blowing organization Wikileaks. In the author's view these attacks don't deserve legal pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Economist Vol. 397; no. 8713; pp. 16 - 18
Format: Editorial
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 12/18/2010
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