单词 | hacktivist |
释义 | hacktivistn.adj. A. n. A person who attempts to gain unauthorized access to computer files or networks in order to further social or political ends. ΚΠ 1995 Village Voice (N.Y.) 27 June 34/1 About 300 queers descended on the park at the behest of a local computer hacktivist. 1999 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 10 Dec. 25/2 Crackers, hactivists, hackers. Whatever they're called, they spell frustration..for governments, corporations and computer users everywhere. 2004 J. C. Dvorak et al. Online! xi. 280 Be on guard against hoaxes, whether perpetrated by a hacktivist with a cause or a con man with an angle. 2015 Financial Express (New Delhi) (Nexis) 20 Aug. While monetisation of data on the black market remains the primary motivation, hacktivists steal data for numerous reasons. B. adj. Of or relating to hacktivism or hacktivists; that advocates or engages in hacktivism. ΚΠ 1998 U.S. News & World Rep. 28 Sept. 47/1 Members of the Hong Kong Blondes, a covert group, claim to have gotten into Chinese military computers and to have temporarily shut down a communications satellite last year in a ‘hacktivist’ protest. 2002 R. Dominguez in B. Shepard & R. Hayduk From ACT UP to WTO 289 In Melbourne..a hactivist group, SI 1,..did a digital hijack of Nike.com. 2016 Mirror (Nexis) 5 Jan. Vigilante hacktivist ‘operations’ always come with the risk of falsely identifying innocent people. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1995 |
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