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Strike on the Web

Raphael Cohen-Almagor (Hull) and Sharon Haleva-Amir (Haifa): Why Monitor Violent Websites? A Justification. David Ashaolu (Harvard): Combating Cybercrimes in Nigeria. David S. Wall (Durham): The Devil Drives a Lada: The Social Construction of Hackers as the Cybercriminal. For the hack of it: To LulzSec, the guilty and innocent alike are worthy targets. “Hello, I am Sabu”: From a housing project on Avenue D, a hacker mastermind of Anonymous and LulzSec was out to upend many worlds, including his own. Quinn Norton on how Anonymous picks targets, launches attacks, and takes powerful organizations down. This really shouldn’t be news to anyone: Facebook is not an experiment; it’s a jail. The curious case of Internet privacy: Free services in exchange for personal information — that's the "privacy bargain" we all strike on the Web, and it could be the worst deal ever. From Ctheory, Chad Scoville on Web 3.0/NanoWar: The Afterimage of the Surveillance State. The end of the world: David Eaves on the State vs. the Internet. David Eagleman on four ways the Internet could go down.