Final ethics project

Final ethics project

            I have read the article about Hacktivist, there are a lot of story with people that people called “hacker” tried to use their expertise and skill with their believe and ambition in the desire to get attention from people that usually with bad action that result in making negative impact on the target, but indeed they just the people turn back to look at something or problem that people in the social overlook. Sometime people live their life without caring for another people in social, just caring about their own live or their benefit, and because of this sometime Hacktivist want to try to change people’s attitude and aspect that people have for the better social, I think Hacktivist is a powerful movement same like journalist that work with media to play their role for social, but Hacktivist, or known as a hacker that have motivation to do something as activist always use the bad action to get attention to people not like journalist do. So, why Hacktivist have been looked as the entity or group of people with dangerous more than to be looked as a good guy that tried to help for the better social. Many times that Hacktivist tried to hack into some system or cooperate or organize, they are just want to send the message or make it to the public and want people to look back and change in something, not intend to destroy data information, or steal sensitive information for a financial purpose. Nowadays Hacktivism has come to have a lot more impact on social.

            As I read the news about “Swagg Security or SwaggSec” the rising hacker group that hacked Foxconn, iPhone manufacturer on February 8, 2012 to gain access to the system resource and then releasing a sensitive massive amount of data including email logins, server logins, trade-secret document and even more alarming - bank account credentials of large companies like Apple, and distributing information data though public by Bittorrent, a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) protocol for file sharing in decentralize network that mean everyone have can share the content independently over the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system in the internet. Their intention of Swagg Security is to releasing them to the people and the international media in the world, in the ambition to have the large media organization reveal the fact and want them to put the pressure on Foxconn. Swagg Security stages the attack Foxconn to protest harsh working conditions.

            Because Swagg Security want Foxconn and partner to deal or change in employee’s life quality. As we saw in the news before about “The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws. When workers in the cafeteria ran outside, they saw black smoke pouring from shattered windows. It came from the area where employees polished thousands of iPad cases a day. Two people were killed immediately, and over a dozen others hurt. As the injured were rushed into ambulances, one in particular stood out. His features had been smeared by the blast, scrubbed by heat and violence until a mat of red and black had replaced his mouth and nose.”

            Swagg Security protesting harsh working conditions at iPhone manufacturer Foxconn dumped what they said were a lot of private data will belonging to the outsourcing big company, and the passwords inside these files could allow individuals to make fraudulent orders under big companies like Microsoft, Apple, IBM, and Swagg Security wrote in a message posted to Pastebin "Be careful." The purported contents were made available in a torrent file on The Pirate Bay, the large and popular torrent file hosting website. Several Foxconn servers were reported as offline over the past few day. The stunt coincided with protests planned at a half-dozen of Apple retail stores around the world by demonstrators opposing the conditions of workers who manufacture iPhones and other Apple hardware. A recent series carried by The New York Times documented long hours, low pay, and an explosion that killed several workers at Foxconn, which also makes hardware for Cisco, Dell, Sony, HP, and others.

             As in the end, this attack make Foxconn and partner have to announce to the public about environment in the workplace and try to solve the problem. As in Hacktivist role, this action is a bad activity, but it help the people aware of problem that around them.