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Hacktivismo is an international group of hackers, human rights workers,
lawyers and artists that evolved out of CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc), a
publishing and computer security group. We believe that privacy and
access to information are basic human rights. Hacktivismo assumes as an
ethical point of departure the principles enshrined in the Universal
Declaration on Human Rights and the International Convention on Civil
and Political Rights. We also support the Free Software and open-source
movements.
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To conduct and publish scientific research in the areas of information
technology, communications and electronic media; and, to assist (where
possible) non-governmental organizations, social justice groups and
human rights entities in the use of advanced information technologies
for the furtherance of their works. We also intend to have fun doing
this. Turn it up. Way up.
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One so-called Internet intelligence group [surely not those morons at
iDefense? - Ed.] referred to us as "Black hat" hackers attempting to
upgrade our public image. If we were Black hats we wouldn't need spin
doctors, we'd need criminal attorneys. The cDc and Hacktivismo aren't
to everyone's taste. But attempting to vilify us because we defy simple
categories is judgmental at best, and irresponsible at worst.
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What do you call a software company that does business with the world's
largest sponsors of terrorism and human rights abuse? Profitable.
We created the Hacktivismo Declaration then we created the HESSLA in the
spirit of these documents:
* International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
* Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Oxblood Ruffin | Executive Director and Founder
The Mixter | Lederhosen Enthusiast and Charter Member
MiB | Spiritual Dissident
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Hacktivismo Hall of Fame
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Partick Ball, Ph.D
Patrick is Deputy Director, American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Program. Since 1991
Patrick has designed information management systems and conducted
quantitative analysis for large-scale human rights data projects for
truth commissions, non-governmental organizations, tribunals and
United Nations missions in El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti,
South Africa, and Kosovo.
His 1997 Ph.D. dissertation "Liberal Hyposcrisy and Totalitarian
Sincerity" examined the roots of the non-governmental human rights
movements in Ethiopia, Pakistan, and El Savador. Patrick is the
author of _Policy or Panic: The Flight of Ethnic Albanians from
Kosovo_; _Who Did What to Whom? Planning and Implementing a Large
Scale Human Rights Data Project_; and _State Violence in Guatemala,
1960-1996: a Qantituative Relflection_ with Paul Kobrak and Herbert
F. Spirer.
Cindy Cohn
Cindy is legal Director & Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. She is a lawyer who specializes in civil
litigation, including Internet-related cases, commerical, real
estate and general business lititgation. In 1997 she was named one
of the California Lawyers of the Year by _California Lawyer_
magazine for her work on internet issues.
She is a member of the San Mateo County Bar Association and of its
legal technology section. Ms. Cohn graduated with honors from the
University of Iowa and received her law degree from the University
of Michingan Law School in 1989. Before entering private practice,
Cindy clerked for the United Nations Centre for Human Rights in
Geneva, Switzerland.
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2006-09-19 - "Torpark" by Arrakis
2006-07-21 - "ScatterChat" by J. Salvatore Testa II
2003-03-01 - "The Six/Four System" by Mixter
2002-11-26 - "The Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License
Agreement" by Oxblood Ruffin and Eric Grimm
2002-07-13 - "Camera/Shy" by The Pull
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2026-04-21 - TWENTY FIVE YEARS LATER, STILL BURNING ("The Hacktivismo
Declaration: Rebooted")
2006-09-19 - HACKTIVISMO RELEASES TORPARK FOR ANONYMOUS, PORTABLE WEB
BROWSING
2006-07-21 - ScatterChat Press Release
2002-11-26 - License To Chill -- Hackers Hamstring Rights Violators
2002-07-04 - CAMERA/SHY ANNOUNCEMENT
2002-02-15 - Announcement of the Six/Four System
2002-02-07 - PEEKABOOTY UPDATE
2001-07-04 - INTERNATIONAL BOOKBURNING IN PROGRESS ("The Hacktivismo
Declaration")
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