Global Information Warfare, 2nd Edition

240 ◾ Global Information Warfare: The New Digital Battleeld

terrorist group, with the main dierence being the scale and the type of target. One

of the main aims of an activist is to achieve their goals by exerting pressure through

a route other than the government or a corporate process, although they may also

use this route. If they can exert this pressure on the targeted organization through

DoS or through propaganda, they will do so, but they will also use the Internet to

communicate with their colleagues and fellow activists and to gain information or

intelligence on their target to identify its weak points.

Activists were, historically, groups of people with a common cause who wanted

to bring pressure to bear on the establishment. e ...