But questions of legality emerge with the application of more sophisticated techniques that automate multiple dispersion of electronic signals that cause an electronic disturbance. The higher one is on the tactical scale the more crucial it is to mask identities and to not leave traces of actions. Having several different free email accounts under assumed names is one way to accomplish this goal. A number of web sites now offer free email accounts where anonymity is possible. Ultimately, though, the most sophisticated computer tactics must be left to the politicized hackers.
Serious hacks are their domain.
While these types of computerized tactics come out of people's experience within the context of the global pro-Zapatista movement, other radical social movements are also showing signs of being receptive to these new cybernetic direct action tactics. Urbanized environmental movements, like the efforts of the Lower East Side Collective in Manhattan to save community gardens from city encroachment, have started to go on-line using their computers and modems to send fax jams to New York City government offices. T here must be now thousands of activists throughout the world who are autonomously and independently coming to similar conclusions about how we can use computers to take political action that goes beyond political communication. While valid arguments can be raised against the computer, and against the technological society that the computer engenders, it is foolish to turn ones back on that machine, when that machine offers possibilities for resistance to the very society which created it. Those already convinced of the efficacy of computers for political action should continue.