Hacking

Hacking
Interest of	• Joseph Felter • Guccifer • Rogue Media Labs • Dragos Ruiu
Breaking and entering computer systems

Hacking means gaining access to a computer system, or any other electronic system, for example via malware or zero day exploits.

As a tool of statecraft

Millie Weaver's documentary ShadowGate explains how The Deep State uses "hacks" as cover for illegal disclosure of information.

By intelligence agencies

The difficulty of proving (or even of detecting) hacking by intelligence agencies has given them a more or less free hand in their hacking. Recently, however, they have sought to consolidate this de facto ability by claiming the legal right. The 2016 Investigatory Powers Act awarded GCHQ the legal right to hack anyone it chose to.

Hackers

Full article: hacker

"Hacker" is a contested term.

 

An example

Page name	Description
"Advanced persistent threat"	A computer attack in which a person or group gains unauthorized access to a computer network and remains undetected for an extended period.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:CyberGuardian Cyber Security Education Programme for Children and Young People	brainwashing concept paper	30 January 2016	Integrity Initiative	II puts lots of thought into how the military can train British children for cyberwarfare.
Document:Executive Summary Cyber Security Education Programme for Children and Young People	brainwashing concept paper executive summary	26 February 2016	Integrity Initiative	II sums up its thought on how the military can train British children for cyberwarfare
Document:Hacker Generations	article	23 August 2011	Richard Thieme	On the origins and real meaning of "Hacker"; a term which, in company with "conspiracy-theory", "Holocaust-denial" and many others has been co-opted/invented by Establishments to marginalise research deemed most threatening to the Official Narratives that define "Consensus trance" reality.
Document:Hacking on a Scale you can Barely Imagine	article	6 December 2012	John Pilger	On the glaring omissions and hypocrisies of the Leveson Inquiry into Press standards, noting especially the vast covert programs of interception and permanent storage of every item of electronic communication on the planet for later data-mining wherever the state might deem it expedient to re-construct the life and movements of targetted individuals.
File:ICA 2017 01.pdf	Report	6 January 2017	Director of National Intelligence	A 25 page report on joint US intelligence agencies assessment of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election.
File:JAR 16-20296.pdf	Report	29 December 2016	FBI	Joint analysis report on alleged efforts by the Russian state to affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential election by means of computer hacking.

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