In todays society technology plays a crucial role and is used as a new cultural vehicle, and even aggregation element or carrier to express dissent against the policies of governments and private companies. Hacktivists use to attack systems and architectures with legal and illegal tools to manifest their dissent through cyber attacks such as denial-of-service attacks, information theft, data breach, web site defacement, typosquatting and other methods of digital sabotage. The ultimate context in which these people can freely exchange ideas and information is the DeepWeb.”]
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