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by Paul Ducklin on August 9, 2011

I keep getting asked - by journalists, friends, colleagues, competitors, delegates at conferences, people on the bus - what my attitude is to hacktivism, hacking and hackers.

I usually answer by saying, "What do you mean by hacktivism?" And the answer is frequently, and impassably, circular. "Y'know - all that hacking that hacktivists are doing these days."

No! I don't know! And I'm not willing to guess what you mean just so I've got something to say!

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