CyberArmy
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Mission Statement
From the CyberArmy.net Wikibase:
CyberArmy stands for freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and freedom of information on the Internet. We support the free creation, development and proliferation of ideas and knowledge through such forums as the open-source community. We recognize that in order for these ideas to flow freely, people must also possess the right to their own privacy. We further recognize that to preserve these freedoms and rights, they must be exercised responsibly. We seek to educate people about privacy and things that threaten it, and we seek to promote the responsible use of the Internet as a medium for the sharing of thoughts, ideas, and information. We believe that the people best qualified to regulate the Internet are its users, and we seek to empower them to remove or mitigate influences which are subversive to these freedoms and rights.
Membership
CyberArmy currently maintains an active membership of around 3,500 members, though at one time claimed more than 60,000. ZDNet Australia reports CyberArmy's membership in 2001 was 35,000 members. CyberArmy claims the reduction in numbers is attributed to the organization's evolution from a hacktivist community in the late 1990s to a more proactive and responsible organization today. It should be noted that the organizational changes included the removal of the popular Zebulun games from the CyberArmy website.
Zebulun
Zebulun was a series of games intended to teach people about computer security by leading them through a series of challenges to hack into a ficticious computer system, located on a lunar base. It was one of the most well-known hacking challenges on the web at one point. Zebulun was available until late 2003, when CyberArmy began to focus entirely on other projects, which were managed via its system of brigades.
Brigades
CyberArmy has a unique, hierarchical system of project organization, where a "brigade" responsible for each aspect of the organization's mission statement is formed from a group of members, who each hold a particular rank and set of priviledges. Successive promotions through the ranks and membership of brigades determine the resources afforded to each member. Brigades have been created, removed and combined regularly throughout the organization's history, but in general exist for each of the various projects it is undertaking.
In the News
CyberArmy has been featured on MSNBC, CNN, and ZDNet, and appears regularly in smaller publications, online and in print.
- InfoWorld – "Tricks of the trade obscure hacker tracks and make anonymity easily attainable", 18 January, 1999
- CNN – "How hackers cover their tracks", 25 January, 1999 (Mirror of InfoWorld Article)
- ZDNet Australia – "John C. Dvorak: taking on hackers", 13 October 2000
- ZDNet Australia – "CyberArmy declares war", 22 January 2001
- ZDNet Australia – " You said it--Classic industry quotes from 2001", 20 December 2001
- PC Pro Article – "Hack the Hackers", 27 January 2005
External Links
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