Steal This Modem
Nuno Andrade, May 21, 2002
On Tuesday, April 15, 2002 at exactly 12:00 AM GMT, the Israeli government was attacked, not by Palestinian suicide bombers or Hezbollah fighters wielding rifles, but by activists armed with nothing but computers and Internet connections.
The attacks, conducted on Israeli government information systems, were organized by the Electrohippie Collective, a group of activists and computer experts intent on using the Internet to further their political agenda. In a mass e-mail sent the day of the cyber-attacks, the Collective stated, "In response to...the recent Israeli military incursions into the major settlements of the West Bank, the Electrohippie Collective is mounting an online 'electronic civil disobedience action' against the information systems of the Israeli government."
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