The imposing European pirate ship John Taylor crosses the waters of Indian Ocean mid-seventeenth century. On his neck, stands a black flag with a grinning skull and crossbones X-shaped. From other vessels, who saw a boat approaching with this symbol, known as a Jolly Roger- put on full alert to the crew, it meant that sea \u200b\u200bbandits come, without mercy, to take the cash.
Centuries later, the pirates sail freely in digital format. The Web has enabled hundreds of small vessels with goods made under the mask of the pixels and binary code. For example, attacks on the pages of digital stores like Amazon and GuitarCenter . It is an open secret that, right here in the Zulia, cyber gangs get the credit card numbers from unsuspecting users and, at home, buy electronics, clothes and even sex toys.
They call this down. Whoever gets to a page you download items using the codes of credit cards, send them to foreign-registered lockers under false names, and then has them delivered to Venezuela. Thanks to crimes carried out from an internet cafe , 17 year old little boys go around giving away condoms because in the last download were so many no longer even know what to do with them.
With website Save Darfur, the pirates made cyber party. It is a coalition of some 180 charities that fight against genocide in the African region. In its online store, obviously full of security flaws, sell bracelets, sweatshirts and caps to raise funds and awareness. Mysteriously, dozens of these items to sell in the tables of street vendors in our markets popular.
Others seek recognition rather than stolen merchandise. Taken by assault web portals to put their signatures on the sites involved, by way of marking territory. Official portals like the old Onidex Cicpc and have been victims of pirates and, in mid-2010, a guy who called himself J4IB3R, lay the site of the Universidad Rafael Urdaneta , saying it had executed operation total cleaning the data banks of the URU. The next day everything was normal.
However, the anonymity and does not look attractive to some rebels. In Sweden, a different group of pirates has grown up since 2006 in a political party with all of the law: Piratpartiet (Pirate Party), a coalition of individuals interested in the free exchange of digital content, such as themselves out in his statement, ( click to read English ) seeking "a comprehensive legislative change to help the emerging information society."
In European Parliament elections in June 2009, Piratpartiet negligible figure obtained 200,000 votes, which assured them of the 18 seats to which Sweden is eligible. The organization succeeded in 19% of the vote among voters under 30 years and has about 50,000 members in its ranks and several initiatives Pirate Parties around the world. We are not talking about thirty boys making noise in a square.
is said that only want to continue downloading free movies and albums without paying for it, "party leaders are founders of giant downloads per torrent The Pirate Bay - but beyond the patch, hook and pirate ship, there is a strong ideological proposal on privacy, freedom of knowledge, and relevance of the use of patents in our time.
rightly in the Swedish Pirate Party, the skull is replaced by a cassette as a symbol of that, today, the real prize is in the information.
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