After Stratfor, hactivists decried as new breed of censor

Global affairs website Stratfor relaunched Jan 11, three weeks after hacktivists put it in the dark. The Statfor caper serves notice about a troublesome new strain of unpredictable censorship arising on the Internet, Stratfor CEO George Friedman says. Hackers claiming responsibility for the Stratfor attack accused the company of being a propaganda arm for corporate and government interests. Hacking technology has becomes so accessible, and social networking so prevalent, that hacktivists can now lash out indiscriminately — and cause crushing damage, security experts and technologists say.