Hactivist report from the liberterrain…
Any time hackers attack corrupt governments (a redundancy) and government-connected entities they're heroes.
Any time hackers spill the beans about anyone who uses and abuses us against our will, looting our just incomes through taxes and inflation, stealing our legitimate property with eminent domain and asset forfeiture, robbing our freedoms via victimless crime laws, destroying us economically by bailing out toadies and contriving protectionist regulations for corporatist cronies that destroys honest laissez-faire capitalism, they're heroes.
Libertarians know about Wikileaks and the martyrs-in-waiting Julian Assange and Bradley Manning and their valiant efforts to tell us the truth about the vicious clandestine activities of our sociopathic rulers.
But other whistleblowers like Anonymous and the now-disbanded LulzSec and multiple Wikileaks spin-off groups and literally thousands of hackers pop up and disappear overnight.
Some will be caught, and governments will loudly propagandize it when they are, but not all will or can be caught.
For example, ZeroPaid recently reported that Abhaxas hacked details of Florida's internal voting database and dumped the info online.
The hacker then tweeted, "Here is inside details of florida voting systems. Now.. who still believes voting isn’t rigged? If the United States Government can’t even keep their ballot systems secure, why trust them at all?"
The same website reported that hackers poached and posted internal data from the Orange County FL Democrats.
Still picking on the Sunshine State, Anonymous hactivists have promised to take down Orlando city websites if they don't stop arresting members of the non-profit Food Not Bombs for feeding homeless people in a park without a permit.
Antisec, which calls for resistance to governments and corporations, hacked the Arizona Police for a third time, outing anti-immigrant emails and others that joke about torturing "ragheads," identifies a 2009 potential Tucson police chief as a "stalker," and a Springerville Chief who praises torture.
These are our "protectors."
Happily for freedom the hacking is happening all around the world.
A hacker stole the entire 2011 UK census database, the result of a compulsory national survey "of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government" collected by US defense contractor Lockheed Martin, and promised to release it all online, while F1Esc dumped Australian 2011 election data to popular data dumpsite ThePirateBay.
If you're confused about this being "unpatriotic," see "The 4th of July Candlelight Vigil."
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