Patriot hacking

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Patriot hacking is a controversial term for computer hacking or system cracking in which a citizens or supporters of a country, traditionally industrialized Western countries but increasingly developing countries, attempts to perpetrate attacks on, or block attacks by, perceived enemies of the state. Recent media attention has focused on efforts related to Islamic terrorists and their own attempts to conduct an online or electronic Intifada. Articles on the subject collected at www.patriothacking.com[1]

Patriot hacking is illegal in countries such as the United States yet is on the rise elsewhere. "The FBI said that recent experience showed that an increase in international tension was mirrored in the online world with a rise in cyber activity such as web defacements and denial of service attacks," according to the BBC.[2]

At the onset of the War in Iraq in 2003, the FBI was concerned about the increase in hack attacks as the intensity of the conflict grew. Since then, it has been becoming increasingly popular in the North America, Western Europe and Israel. These are the countries which have the greatest threat to Islamic terrorism and its aforementioned digital version.

The People's Republic of China is allegedly making attacks upon the computer networks of the United States of America and the United Kingdom. MP Andrew MacKinlay claims that the recent attacks had at least the approval of the Chinese Government. President George W. Bush says he may bring up the issue with Chinese leader Hu Jintao. [http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070906/ttc-britain-china-intelligence-it-8b21ac8_1.html 1 [http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20070906/tuk-chinese-army-hackers-target-whitehal-dba1618_1.html 2