Molly Sauter on “The Coming Swarm”
November 14th, 2014
What is the role of the internet in political activism and speech? Is there any room for nuance between hacking and “cyber-terrorism?”
Molly Sauter — research affiliate at the Berkman Center and author of “The Coming Swarm: DDoS, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet” — discusses the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism.
Also in ogg for download
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*Correction from Molly Sauter: “The plea deal of the PayPal14 stipulates that each defendant owes $5,600 in restitution payments to the PayPal corporation, not $1,600 as I state in the video.”
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