Hacktivism emerged as a new frontier in the fight for transparency

Evidence

WikiLeaks gained its first support from the anti-war left for releasing classified documents about US actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2010, it made global headlines by publishing top-secret war documents provided by intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. This leak, and Manning’s subsequent imprisonment, cemented Assange’s status as the face of “hacktivism”—a controversial new frontier in the fight for transparency. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 266

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader ‘transparency as ideology’ critique and data-privacy debates adjacent to the reader’s previous reading on FOIA and freedom of information. — connects to: Openness and transparency form the stated political core of hacker philosophy — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 69