Hacktivist

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, storkrn wrote:

> >From an article out of Geneva today on the WTO protest:
>
> The term "hacktivist" was first applied to supporters of the Zapatista
> rebels in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, who have sabotaged
> Mexican government Web sites since 1998 and held "virtual sit-ins"
> designed to overload servers.
>
> Is this correct?

No, the citations on Nexis go back to 1995 and none of the early citations
have anything to do with Mexico.

Fred Shapiro


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