Final report 'social hacking 101'
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Section1: Introducing Social hacking
The average person today here in the UK, has an overabundance of communication devices and systems in which they can use as tool, to saying something. People today can receive messages on their answering machine, at there home computer, at their email at work, or on their cell phone and land line . The subject content may vary depending on the device used, but the main idea here is that there are countless ways of ‘saying’ or implying something based upon the methods we use to say it. Social hacking is about the use of these methods to make a point.
Lets look at an example: In the late 1990’s the shoe company Nike was receiving a lot of bad press due to emerging stories that spoke of eye witness accounts of the deplorable work conditions in Nike’s outsourced shoe factories.
In this example of social hacking the use of email was chosen as a means to pressure Nike 1 One of the top sports shoe manufacturers on the planet into rethinking its health and safety practice standards used in its shoe factories in the 3rd world. An email was sent to NIKE enquiring about the their new shoe that was being a advertised as part of a new marketing campaign at the time. The shoe’s unique selling point was that it enabled customers to have their own name sown onto the shoe. One consumer saw a drastic flaw in this campaign, and exploited it via email. In the email the consumer asked that his shoe have ‘sweat shop’ stitched on. Seeing this campaign flaw Nike immediately refused the sale of the shoes to the customer. It wasn’t until the email dialogue was reported to the media that the story was accredited as clever demonstration in beating a corporation at its own game. Had the consumer placed the order in person from one of Nikes retail outlets it would have been a completely different story.
Section 2:Roots of social hacking
Activism has evolved with the times as much as fashion has evolved with designs. Social hacking is simply a new kind of popular activism. Picketing and peaceful protests are still as popular today as they have ever been. Yet only in the last 10 years or so have significant changes to activism really taken place. With the exception of the telephone, never before has technology in the home permitted households to voice their views and opinions to society in the wider world as the Internet has done. In the past Radio and TV have been only able to receive transmitted messages. Yet with the ever-increasing numbers of household’s going online, combined with the advent of web 2.0 which makes it quicker and easier then ever to share information and post article responses. Activism it self has been regenerated and reinvented. Today, in the information age Activism has teamed up with information technologies to created Hacktivism. A researched from thehacktivist.com defines activism as“ the fusion of hacking and activism; politics and technology. More specifically, hacktivism is described as hacking for a political cause.” 2
Section 3From Activism to Hacktivism:
Hacktivism is a mesh of hacking and activism. If one could understand a ‘hacker’ as a type of cyber-anarchist, and an activist as a person who demonstrates or protests for socio-political change, then activism would be the middle ground by which these two types of people would join together.
Hacktivists may use flawed web page security of a target as a canvas to rally for or against a political/public or social issue. Hacktivism carries many of the attitudes and ideas that Activism and Social hacking champion, how ever, it exists purely within cyberspace and the technologies used to access or interact within it. Activism in cyberspace enables ‘Hacktivists’ to reach out to millions of people around the world.
Cyberspace has many more advantages to picketing and peaceful protesting in public space. For a start it has a 24/hr a day 7days a week worldwide audience, this in itself makes it very favorable battleground for any one looking to get attention or raise awareness over an issue.
An example where activism and Hackitvism may overlap would be in raising money and awareness in cyberspace. One website in particular is www.thehungersite.com, enables individuals to help feed the hungry at no cost at all.
Since its launch in June 1999, the site has established itself as a leader in online activism, helping to feed the world's hungry. On average, over 220,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the yellow "Help Feed The Hungry" button. To date, more than 200 million visitors have given more than 300 million cups of staple food 3.
Section 4: How does Social hacking Work
‘Social Hacking’ engages individuals by means of passive aggressive action, where by it’s ‘target audience’ may not even know they are being targeted. A typical challenge of a ‘social hack’ would be to take a widely understood historic message or meaning and turn it on its head by using it in a provocatively controversial way. An example of this would be in ‘hacking’ corporate company logo’s. One such company McDonalds, known for its slogan ‘i’m lovin it’ has had its logo and slogan flipped on its head. In this example the golden arches that form to make a large M, were turned into a W, then substituted into the company’s slogan to say ‘we’re hating it’. Because McDonalds is so well known, this kind of statement could then be used as a web banner, printed or on T-shirts so that any one who saw it would ‘get’ the punch line.
Section 5: Social Hacking in pop culture
The potential for ‘Social hacking’ is greater then ever when popular culture adopts ‘statements’ and symbols into fashion items or accessories. The most common of these would have to be the ‘ban for bombs sign’ (a.k.a. ‘peace sign’). The peace has been incorporated into nearly every type of fashion accessory that exists. The symbolism behind the ‘peace sign’ implies span’s a long history of ‘rebellious antiauthority’ significance which was popularized in the 1960’s civil rights movements, and the issues that they fought for. However though younger generations today may not know the specifics, there is perhaps a wider understanding of the ideal’s behind it. Thus the beauty of incorporating social hacking into pop culture is that popular signs, symbols or iconography can be used and misused in driving messages or change mind-sets to provoke pro-active attitudes.
Weapons of activism…. Knowledge A.k.a. The Truth!
The Knowledge of truth is the greatest weapon that social hackers and activists alike possess. Most kinds of Activism and social hacking aim to re-inform the public of ‘hidden truths’, by using their own channels of public communication and distribution. The information superhighway is simply just one of these channels, and if often known used as the main way to reach out to people. Demonstrations in public spaces are often carried out in flamboyant and unconventional fashion. You may be asking ‘why is the mode of appeal often flamboyant? Well look at it this way, activists and social hacking groups don’t have the luxury of using the same private ‘distribution channels’ that corporate business or advertisers dominate. Offering advertising space and time to the highest bidder has made steady Mainstream distribution campaigns very expensive. Using flamboyant outreach methods in public demonstrations means messages often hit home harder then a conventional public broadcasting message. Further more this mode of appeal is often more successful then conventional methods because it can be very crude and direct as can apply little or no censorship.
Section 7: Getting noticed and organized.
The more press coverage a demonstration gets the better! Its free and it can reaches millions in just a single day, whilst also targeting audiences that might not be ‘internet savvy’. The Internet has helped literally multiply the presence of activist groups. Through networking over the internet smaller groups have been brought together, whilst larger groups have been able to reorganize and split to form smaller more focused groups. Further more, planning protests on a large scale has been made quicker, easier and more effective thanks to the internet.
Section 8: The difference of the 3
v Activism… yes ….yes hello picketers and protesters J
v Social hacking, uses technology in a provocative means to bring to light controversial issues SOCIAL HACKING WEBSITES PROVIDE THE ‘SOCIAL HACK CONTENT’
v Hactivism takes place purely in cyberspace, whilst at the same time carries forward the core values of social hacking and activism. Ultimately all 3 do overlap in places, but it is where they do not over lap, where one will see the distinctions between each of them.
Hactivism in particular uses ‘social engineering’3. Social engineering employs social techniques and methods to get a person to divulge private or sensitive information unknowingly to an individual. In terms of ‘social hacking’ social engineering aims to ‘ethically trick’ or rearrange the intended original meaning of a slogan or symbol to bring about a new understanding.
Section 9 : Are these new types of activism working?
Success of these forms of activism shouldn’t be limited to a straightforward assertions of “well, did it change any thing?”, because in most cases you’ll find there was limited impact other then causing a public special. It would be undermining to base the total success of an Organized Cause in the events of a single day, because there is nearly always a trickle down effect that may motivate some one else to stand up and make a difference.
In Noam Chomsky’s DVD release “rebel with out a pause”, he pointed out that even the most basic liberties that we have to day whether its freedom of expression social security, or right to privacy, that we shouldn’t kid our selves that any of these we’re openly given or granted to any of us, they were pressured fought for and lobbied for.
There for Upon review, if one is looking for a way to measure the success of a demonstration or protest, one should think about, ‘what has come if it since then’, have there been changes or improvements in the issue or was there merely a wider awareness raised, in each case both would qualify as a success.
In essence whether it’s the political/social/ environmental or technologically motivated these forms of activism all try to ‘challenge’ and ‘oppose’ the view of the majority, in an attempt to have the ‘the view of the few’ heard.
Section 9 New activist battle grounds
Recently, activist and hacktivist groups as well as the media are jumping on the band wagon to condone china’s attempts to censor the internet to its citizens. Never before in the history of the internet has any one succeeded in the ways china has to purposely censor content. There censorship program is said to employ a team of 40,000, that work to filter out antiestablishment and subversive content. Though anonymous proxy servers website5 are able to provide user’s with wider internet access, Its been reported that “As a direct result of the government’s new policy and increased efforts to censor the internet, free, anonymous proxy servers that helped users to break through the national firewall have now an average lifespan of just 30 minutes.” Until they are filterd out again4
Section 10 : ThePirateBay case study
In the summer of 2006 the strength of the MPAA (check it) shocked the international file sharing community when the local police authorities in Sweden gave into intense pressure from MPAA lobbyists at the Whitehouse to raid and close down thepiratebay server’s, and hold its administrator’s for questioning. After thorough explanation about how Bittorent works and how thepiratebay operates, the authorities we’re forced to drop the charges against thepiratebay team because under Swedish Law no crime had been committed.
The MPAA’s lead raid on foreign soil displayed to both the file sharing communities and other internet subcultures on how much influence Hollywood and the entertainment industry over the White House in United States. The effect of the raid caused minimal effect to thepiratebay and on a publicity scale actually managed to increase file sharing activity since.
Thepiratebay team and its community, stated in a video documentary about the raid called “steal this film”, that the constant pressure and threats exerted by the MPAA towards thepriatebay and the file share community as desperate attempt to make even more money in a declining market. This kind of argument was contrasted back to when the first VCR tape recorders were released into the consumer market. When this happened Copyright companies got worried and complained that massive revenue’s would be lost because people would end up recording films from there TV instead buying video tapes or going to watch films the theaters. Since this type of wild speculation never materialized to the forecasted loss that was predicted, today with CD or DVD recorders freely available on the market there is little reason to think that Hollywood as we know it could go bust due to the actions of the fileshare community alone
The widespread condemnation that the entertainment industry has placed on file share communities has labeled its very user’s as a kind of ‘cyber-outlaw’ a title historically reserved for hackers. How ever today the file share communities represent a movement for free access to information. With their aims set for free access to any kind of information as their non-negotiable demands, the community went about developing the technology that would enable them to do so. The result was and opensource developed piece of software that succeed in allowing the file community to easily and freely share information amongst themselves. Elements of this developed technology can be found in the numerous psudo named file share applications around today.
Thinking back to as early as 1999 when Napster only allowed its users could only access one kind of media but relied solely on every one being connected to a single server. The difference today is phenomenal, Bittorrent is the technology that the fileshare community embraces. Bittorent enables any kind of media to be transferred across it at tremendously high speeds, as its early design took into account limited bandwidth abilities of the period, as a result pooling bandwidth became one of its core features. This feature enables the very people who download a torrent a files to simultaneously act as server seed for other users to access parts of the same file. Thus allowing backbone search websites like thepiratebay to re-rout bandwidth traffic into providing more quality search results to a bigger audience at an extremely efficient rate.
This case is a testament to how a pro-active community came together to create their own solution to a small problem that the free market couldn’t not supply with out a price tag.
EXTRAS : Using Technologies speaking out
With all the electronic devices available to us today, this provides each of us with more then one way’ mean what we say… because the very method we choose to transmit a message may in itself say something a little extra. There’s nothing more personal then receiving a phone call from a friend of a special some one who called just to say hi, but, On the other hand there’s nothing worse then receiving a phone call or a message from some one wanting to say “Im not in love with you any more”. Some things are just better saved to be said in person.
The way in which we receive these messages, speaks to use personally as people, social hacking utilizes the particular information technology equally on par if not as the main Driver of the message being conveyed.
Fun stuff:
The way a message is shared and/or told can mean the difference between being heard or not being heard at all. Lets take the example of clothing use along side of social hacking. The website redmolotov.com sells everyday clothing items with provocative signs and logo’s printed on them. One of these is a variation of a “peace” t-shirt.. but instead its implied meaning is simply a cleverly written piece of code that only coders would understand.
Essentially the shirt just says Hate, but with the HTML code prefixes on either side of it, it actually means END HATE in HTML. The idea that some one who does not know any better would be forced to interpret the message for its opposite meaning is utter genius. Eg: ‘’ which is a HTML expression that means “end hate”.
References
Blog reference
1 http://www.mysocialnetwork.net/blog/410/g31/2006/12/friends_and_foes_important_imp.html
The hactivist homepage
2: http://www.thehacktivist.com/?page_id=97
The Hunger Site
3: http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1
Film influences
Noam chomsy’s ‘Rebel with out a pause’ (2003)
4. http://imdb.com/title/tt0368083
‘Steal this film’(2006) a movie about thepiratebay.org
4.2 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4116387786400792905
China case study
5 http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-edemocracy/internet_china_2945.jsp#
Hacking clothing
6 RedMolotov.com
visit www.pirate-university.org for more information
Section1: Introducing Social hacking
The average person today here in the UK, has an overabundance of communication devices and systems in which they can use as tool, to saying something. People today can receive messages on their answering machine, at there home computer, at their email at work, or on their cell phone and land line . The subject content may vary depending on the device used, but the main idea here is that there are countless ways of ‘saying’ or implying something based upon the methods we use to say it. Social hacking is about the use of these methods to make a point.
Lets look at an example: In the late 1990’s the shoe company Nike was receiving a lot of bad press due to emerging stories that spoke of eye witness accounts of the deplorable work conditions in Nike’s outsourced shoe factories.
In this example of social hacking the use of email was chosen as a means to pressure Nike 1 One of the top sports shoe manufacturers on the planet into rethinking its health and safety practice standards used in its shoe factories in the 3rd world. An email was sent to NIKE enquiring about the their new shoe that was being a advertised as part of a new marketing campaign at the time. The shoe’s unique selling point was that it enabled customers to have their own name sown onto the shoe. One consumer saw a drastic flaw in this campaign, and exploited it via email. In the email the consumer asked that his shoe have ‘sweat shop’ stitched on. Seeing this campaign flaw Nike immediately refused the sale of the shoes to the customer. It wasn’t until the email dialogue was reported to the media that the story was accredited as clever demonstration in beating a corporation at its own game. Had the consumer placed the order in person from one of Nikes retail outlets it would have been a completely different story.
Section 2:Roots of social hacking
Activism has evolved with the times as much as fashion has evolved with designs. Social hacking is simply a new kind of popular activism. Picketing and peaceful protests are still as popular today as they have ever been. Yet only in the last 10 years or so have significant changes to activism really taken place. With the exception of the telephone, never before has technology in the home permitted households to voice their views and opinions to society in the wider world as the Internet has done. In the past Radio and TV have been only able to receive transmitted messages. Yet with the ever-increasing numbers of household’s going online, combined with the advent of web 2.0 which makes it quicker and easier then ever to share information and post article responses. Activism it self has been regenerated and reinvented. Today, in the information age Activism has teamed up with information technologies to created Hacktivism. A researched from thehacktivist.com defines activism as“ the fusion of hacking and activism; politics and technology. More specifically, hacktivism is described as hacking for a political cause.” 2
Section 3From Activism to Hacktivism:
Hacktivism is a mesh of hacking and activism. If one could understand a ‘hacker’ as a type of cyber-anarchist, and an activist as a person who demonstrates or protests for socio-political change, then activism would be the middle ground by which these two types of people would join together.
Hacktivists may use flawed web page security of a target as a canvas to rally for or against a political/public or social issue. Hacktivism carries many of the attitudes and ideas that Activism and Social hacking champion, how ever, it exists purely within cyberspace and the technologies used to access or interact within it. Activism in cyberspace enables ‘Hacktivists’ to reach out to millions of people around the world.
Cyberspace has many more advantages to picketing and peaceful protesting in public space. For a start it has a 24/hr a day 7days a week worldwide audience, this in itself makes it very favorable battleground for any one looking to get attention or raise awareness over an issue.
An example where activism and Hackitvism may overlap would be in raising money and awareness in cyberspace. One website in particular is www.thehungersite.com, enables individuals to help feed the hungry at no cost at all.
Since its launch in June 1999, the site has established itself as a leader in online activism, helping to feed the world's hungry. On average, over 220,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the yellow "Help Feed The Hungry" button. To date, more than 200 million visitors have given more than 300 million cups of staple food 3.
Section 4: How does Social hacking Work
‘Social Hacking’ engages individuals by means of passive aggressive action, where by it’s ‘target audience’ may not even know they are being targeted. A typical challenge of a ‘social hack’ would be to take a widely understood historic message or meaning and turn it on its head by using it in a provocatively controversial way. An example of this would be in ‘hacking’ corporate company logo’s. One such company McDonalds, known for its slogan ‘i’m lovin it’ has had its logo and slogan flipped on its head. In this example the golden arches that form to make a large M, were turned into a W, then substituted into the company’s slogan to say ‘we’re hating it’. Because McDonalds is so well known, this kind of statement could then be used as a web banner, printed or on T-shirts so that any one who saw it would ‘get’ the punch line.
Section 5: Social Hacking in pop culture
The potential for ‘Social hacking’ is greater then ever when popular culture adopts ‘statements’ and symbols into fashion items or accessories. The most common of these would have to be the ‘ban for bombs sign’ (a.k.a. ‘peace sign’). The peace has been incorporated into nearly every type of fashion accessory that exists. The symbolism behind the ‘peace sign’ implies span’s a long history of ‘rebellious antiauthority’ significance which was popularized in the 1960’s civil rights movements, and the issues that they fought for. However though younger generations today may not know the specifics, there is perhaps a wider understanding of the ideal’s behind it. Thus the beauty of incorporating social hacking into pop culture is that popular signs, symbols or iconography can be used and misused in driving messages or change mind-sets to provoke pro-active attitudes.
Weapons of activism…. Knowledge A.k.a. The Truth!
The Knowledge of truth is the greatest weapon that social hackers and activists alike possess. Most kinds of Activism and social hacking aim to re-inform the public of ‘hidden truths’, by using their own channels of public communication and distribution. The information superhighway is simply just one of these channels, and if often known used as the main way to reach out to people. Demonstrations in public spaces are often carried out in flamboyant and unconventional fashion. You may be asking ‘why is the mode of appeal often flamboyant? Well look at it this way, activists and social hacking groups don’t have the luxury of using the same private ‘distribution channels’ that corporate business or advertisers dominate. Offering advertising space and time to the highest bidder has made steady Mainstream distribution campaigns very expensive. Using flamboyant outreach methods in public demonstrations means messages often hit home harder then a conventional public broadcasting message. Further more this mode of appeal is often more successful then conventional methods because it can be very crude and direct as can apply little or no censorship.
Section 7: Getting noticed and organized.
The more press coverage a demonstration gets the better! Its free and it can reaches millions in just a single day, whilst also targeting audiences that might not be ‘internet savvy’. The Internet has helped literally multiply the presence of activist groups. Through networking over the internet smaller groups have been brought together, whilst larger groups have been able to reorganize and split to form smaller more focused groups. Further more, planning protests on a large scale has been made quicker, easier and more effective thanks to the internet.
Section 8: The difference of the 3
v Activism… yes ….yes hello picketers and protesters J
v Social hacking, uses technology in a provocative means to bring to light controversial issues SOCIAL HACKING WEBSITES PROVIDE THE ‘SOCIAL HACK CONTENT’
v Hactivism takes place purely in cyberspace, whilst at the same time carries forward the core values of social hacking and activism. Ultimately all 3 do overlap in places, but it is where they do not over lap, where one will see the distinctions between each of them.
Hactivism in particular uses ‘social engineering’3. Social engineering employs social techniques and methods to get a person to divulge private or sensitive information unknowingly to an individual. In terms of ‘social hacking’ social engineering aims to ‘ethically trick’ or rearrange the intended original meaning of a slogan or symbol to bring about a new understanding.
Section 9 : Are these new types of activism working?
Success of these forms of activism shouldn’t be limited to a straightforward assertions of “well, did it change any thing?”, because in most cases you’ll find there was limited impact other then causing a public special. It would be undermining to base the total success of an Organized Cause in the events of a single day, because there is nearly always a trickle down effect that may motivate some one else to stand up and make a difference.
In Noam Chomsky’s DVD release “rebel with out a pause”, he pointed out that even the most basic liberties that we have to day whether its freedom of expression social security, or right to privacy, that we shouldn’t kid our selves that any of these we’re openly given or granted to any of us, they were pressured fought for and lobbied for.
There for Upon review, if one is looking for a way to measure the success of a demonstration or protest, one should think about, ‘what has come if it since then’, have there been changes or improvements in the issue or was there merely a wider awareness raised, in each case both would qualify as a success.
In essence whether it’s the political/social/ environmental or technologically motivated these forms of activism all try to ‘challenge’ and ‘oppose’ the view of the majority, in an attempt to have the ‘the view of the few’ heard.
Section 9 New activist battle grounds
Recently, activist and hacktivist groups as well as the media are jumping on the band wagon to condone china’s attempts to censor the internet to its citizens. Never before in the history of the internet has any one succeeded in the ways china has to purposely censor content. There censorship program is said to employ a team of 40,000, that work to filter out antiestablishment and subversive content. Though anonymous proxy servers website5 are able to provide user’s with wider internet access, Its been reported that “As a direct result of the government’s new policy and increased efforts to censor the internet, free, anonymous proxy servers that helped users to break through the national firewall have now an average lifespan of just 30 minutes.” Until they are filterd out again4
Section 10 : ThePirateBay case study
In the summer of 2006 the strength of the MPAA (check it) shocked the international file sharing community when the local police authorities in Sweden gave into intense pressure from MPAA lobbyists at the Whitehouse to raid and close down thepiratebay server’s, and hold its administrator’s for questioning. After thorough explanation about how Bittorent works and how thepiratebay operates, the authorities we’re forced to drop the charges against thepiratebay team because under Swedish Law no crime had been committed.
The MPAA’s lead raid on foreign soil displayed to both the file sharing communities and other internet subcultures on how much influence Hollywood and the entertainment industry over the White House in United States. The effect of the raid caused minimal effect to thepiratebay and on a publicity scale actually managed to increase file sharing activity since.
Thepiratebay team and its community, stated in a video documentary about the raid called “steal this film”, that the constant pressure and threats exerted by the MPAA towards thepriatebay and the file share community as desperate attempt to make even more money in a declining market. This kind of argument was contrasted back to when the first VCR tape recorders were released into the consumer market. When this happened Copyright companies got worried and complained that massive revenue’s would be lost because people would end up recording films from there TV instead buying video tapes or going to watch films the theaters. Since this type of wild speculation never materialized to the forecasted loss that was predicted, today with CD or DVD recorders freely available on the market there is little reason to think that Hollywood as we know it could go bust due to the actions of the fileshare community alone
The widespread condemnation that the entertainment industry has placed on file share communities has labeled its very user’s as a kind of ‘cyber-outlaw’ a title historically reserved for hackers. How ever today the file share communities represent a movement for free access to information. With their aims set for free access to any kind of information as their non-negotiable demands, the community went about developing the technology that would enable them to do so. The result was and opensource developed piece of software that succeed in allowing the file community to easily and freely share information amongst themselves. Elements of this developed technology can be found in the numerous psudo named file share applications around today.
Thinking back to as early as 1999 when Napster only allowed its users could only access one kind of media but relied solely on every one being connected to a single server. The difference today is phenomenal, Bittorrent is the technology that the fileshare community embraces. Bittorent enables any kind of media to be transferred across it at tremendously high speeds, as its early design took into account limited bandwidth abilities of the period, as a result pooling bandwidth became one of its core features. This feature enables the very people who download a torrent a files to simultaneously act as server seed for other users to access parts of the same file. Thus allowing backbone search websites like thepiratebay to re-rout bandwidth traffic into providing more quality search results to a bigger audience at an extremely efficient rate.
This case is a testament to how a pro-active community came together to create their own solution to a small problem that the free market couldn’t not supply with out a price tag.
EXTRAS : Using Technologies speaking out
With all the electronic devices available to us today, this provides each of us with more then one way’ mean what we say… because the very method we choose to transmit a message may in itself say something a little extra. There’s nothing more personal then receiving a phone call from a friend of a special some one who called just to say hi, but, On the other hand there’s nothing worse then receiving a phone call or a message from some one wanting to say “Im not in love with you any more”. Some things are just better saved to be said in person.
The way in which we receive these messages, speaks to use personally as people, social hacking utilizes the particular information technology equally on par if not as the main Driver of the message being conveyed.
Fun stuff:
The way a message is shared and/or told can mean the difference between being heard or not being heard at all. Lets take the example of clothing use along side of social hacking. The website redmolotov.com sells everyday clothing items with provocative signs and logo’s printed on them. One of these is a variation of a “peace” t-shirt.. but instead its implied meaning is simply a cleverly written piece of code that only coders would understand.
Essentially the shirt just says Hate, but with the HTML code prefixes on either side of it, it actually means END HATE in HTML. The idea that some one who does not know any better would be forced to interpret the message for its opposite meaning is utter genius. Eg: ‘’ which is a HTML expression that means “end hate”.
References
Blog reference
1 http://www.mysocialnetwork.net/blog/410/g31/2006/12/friends_and_foes_important_imp.html
The hactivist homepage
2: http://www.thehacktivist.com/?page_id=97
The Hunger Site
3: http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1
Film influences
Noam chomsy’s ‘Rebel with out a pause’ (2003)
4. http://imdb.com/title/tt0368083
‘Steal this film’(2006) a movie about thepiratebay.org
4.2 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4116387786400792905
China case study
5 http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-edemocracy/internet_china_2945.jsp#
Hacking clothing
6 RedMolotov.com
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