Case study: Anonymous
While the motivation of terrorist acts remains the same, the rapid evolution of technique has provided to those that use terror as a method to attain their goals, new weapons with a potential that is not fully quantified. The database, the measures of protection and security, the equipments meant to reassure our safety are exposed to those new types of weapons, the traditional methods of fight becoming impractical.
The cyber-crimes are a supplement for cyber-terrorism in what concerns the methods used although the motivations are different from each person. Many of these attacks are made either to produce anarchy, for amusement, to reaffirm the hacker?s position, or from a political motivation.
When speaking of cyber-terrorism, the first thing to take into consideration is the geographic component that vanish and there is a slight chance on the terrestrial identification of the attacker due to the fact that internet offers us anonymity. Another point to reflect is that the distance from which it is the attack because in the lack of a clear legislation, any failure does not impose restrictions in the future and so …show more content…
The image of Fawkes from the protests of today has its origins in the comic series V for Vendetta from the '80s, written by the anarchist Alan Moore and illustrated along with the illustrator David Lloyd, both British. The action takes place in a dystopian UK in '97, under dictatorship, with a population depressed and helpless. the plot is centered around Evey, an orphan, and V, a rebel who lay eyes on her costume, an anti-hero who disturbs the authoritarian state through acts of violent resistance. Throughout the series, V wears a mask that never failed her out, the stylized face of Guy Fawkes: bleached skin and flushed cheeks, thin mustache and goatee quietly, eyes narrowed over an inscrutable
While the motivation of terrorist acts remains the same, the rapid evolution of technique has provided to those that use terror as a method to attain their goals, new weapons with a potential that is not fully quantified. The database, the measures of protection and security, the equipments meant to reassure our safety are exposed to those new types of weapons, the traditional methods of fight becoming impractical.
The cyber-crimes are a supplement for cyber-terrorism in what concerns the methods used although the motivations are different from each person. Many of these attacks are made either to produce anarchy, for amusement, to reaffirm the hacker?s position, or from a political motivation.
When speaking of cyber-terrorism, the first thing to take into consideration is the geographic component that vanish and there is a slight chance on the terrestrial identification of the attacker due to the fact that internet offers us anonymity. Another point to reflect is that the distance from which it is the attack because in the lack of a clear legislation, any failure does not impose restrictions in the future and so …show more content…
The image of Fawkes from the protests of today has its origins in the comic series V for Vendetta from the '80s, written by the anarchist Alan Moore and illustrated along with the illustrator David Lloyd, both British. The action takes place in a dystopian UK in '97, under dictatorship, with a population depressed and helpless. the plot is centered around Evey, an orphan, and V, a rebel who lay eyes on her costume, an anti-hero who disturbs the authoritarian state through acts of violent resistance. Throughout the series, V wears a mask that never failed her out, the stylized face of Guy Fawkes: bleached skin and flushed cheeks, thin mustache and goatee quietly, eyes narrowed over an inscrutable