In the following paper I will discuss the creative process behind our character, Gary Lamo. There is much significance of the people that were chosen to base our character off of. I will follow with what specific significance this character has in society and how he relates specifically to this course. The main idea that most of the discussion will revolve around the ideas of hacktivism.
Our character was specifically based off of two different individuals. The first was Gary McKinnon. Gary McKinnon is known to be one of the most notorious hackers in history. He had been interested in computers since he was very young and grew up learning how to hack/code programs. Much of the hacking that he did was entirely done based on curiosity and the …show more content…
As discussed in class hacktivism is the idea of using computer technology and programs to address a political agenda or facilitate a social change. According the article by Paul Taylor titled From hackers to hacktivist: speed bumps on the global superhighway? he describes hacktivism as “the manipulation of any radical action by those seeking to redirect the social impact of hacking for their own purposes” (Taylor 633). If you look at the multitude of different post that our character made in his blog or in his social media page. Much of it calls for individuals to go against government and learn more about these aliens. Much of what our character stands for is getting information to the people. So any event that occurs involving the government hiding information he believes that its his job to get all that information and share it with his readers. He is a strong believer that the government is hiding a lot of information due to greed and that the government knows that if the people found out about this information they would rebel. I would say that our character wouldn’t be considered a cyberterrorist because there are no threats being made when he goes into the systems of big corporations or the government. Something that we talked about in the reading discussion is the fact that where can we draw the line between doing some for the sake of getting information and something that involves
Our character was specifically based off of two different individuals. The first was Gary McKinnon. Gary McKinnon is known to be one of the most notorious hackers in history. He had been interested in computers since he was very young and grew up learning how to hack/code programs. Much of the hacking that he did was entirely done based on curiosity and the …show more content…
As discussed in class hacktivism is the idea of using computer technology and programs to address a political agenda or facilitate a social change. According the article by Paul Taylor titled From hackers to hacktivist: speed bumps on the global superhighway? he describes hacktivism as “the manipulation of any radical action by those seeking to redirect the social impact of hacking for their own purposes” (Taylor 633). If you look at the multitude of different post that our character made in his blog or in his social media page. Much of it calls for individuals to go against government and learn more about these aliens. Much of what our character stands for is getting information to the people. So any event that occurs involving the government hiding information he believes that its his job to get all that information and share it with his readers. He is a strong believer that the government is hiding a lot of information due to greed and that the government knows that if the people found out about this information they would rebel. I would say that our character wouldn’t be considered a cyberterrorist because there are no threats being made when he goes into the systems of big corporations or the government. Something that we talked about in the reading discussion is the fact that where can we draw the line between doing some for the sake of getting information and something that involves