The word itself is a portmanteau of two different words. The kind of people this word describes actually took down a website, its ISP and DNS provider, just because the website was providing a security tool that would cause spammers to delete email addresses of those who joined a community for anti-spamming, and didn’t want to receive any more spam mails!
These people have assumed new ‘significance’ after MasterCard, PayPal and Amazon refused services to WikiLeaks. What one word describes these people?
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Sorry Krishnan and Karthike Ramesh. I was not looking for Anonymous or Phreakers. The other six got it right. these are all Hacktivists!
hacktivists!!!!!
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