Your body, your identity Jan Babiak says there is no question that in some cases companies have lost millions through cybercrime, not just through hacking in from the outside, but from employees working within an organisation and recognising the opportunities for siphoning off cash. But it is still necessary to anticipate the lengths that a determined cyber-criminal may go to. Electrohippies Real 56K Quicktime Campaigners on a whole range of issues have targeted the computer networks of their opponents to make their views heard. Sometimes such action takes the form of defacing a website. On other occasions, a company may receive thousands of e-mails from protestors all over the world, clogging up its system.
Some campaigners are prepared to use tactics that are illegal.
But others, like the group Electrohippies, say people can make a point online and stay within the law. Paul Mobbs from the group says people can use the internet as a democratic tool. It s not, as is often portrayed, just one crazed person on the internet. For a proper democratic action that is perfectly legal, that doesn t involve any cracking, it can take thousands, if not tens of thousands of people to make it work. If it is a well-supported campaign every person need only send one email to cause a company problems.