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great coinage, and i love the concept... it's at least a relatively harmless form of activism, at least in this case. it's hard not to chuckle at a virus that puts a marijuana leaf in your systray =) beats a suicide bombing by a long shot. (so do pot legalization activists perform suicide bonging??
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Activists in general, and hacktivists in particular are arrogant idiots. Remember the activists of the sixties who had all the answers to everything. How come they accomplished so little? The bottom of the URL site had a dictum that viruses are the new graffiti. My favorite uncle had a saying: "His ambition is very small who writes his name on the s... house wall." And the malicious hackers are not brave enough to append their names to their creations.They hurt a lot of people and accomplish nothing.They are in the same class as drive-by shooters.
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Activists in general...are arrogant idiots
Of course we'll never really know if we (US'ns) would have gotten out of Viet Nam alive without the hippies of the 1960s and 1970s or whether we (US'ns) would have achieved some sort of independent political existence (see Canada) from England without the activists of the 1770s and 1780s.
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Undoubtedly there were activists who were well informed and well motivated, and did not commit stupid excesses. Unfortunately the idiots made the most noise and caused the most trouble and got all the headllines. But too few were willing to take the trouble of becoming involved in the slow process of acquiring qualifications and backing for public office where they could help shape legislation.
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Right, Max. I think Faldage was alluding to that act in his elliptical way  . In any case, I agree with y'all that without "activists" we wouldn't have much change. (lemme see... there was Lilith, Noah, Buddha, Solomon, Jesus, the Crusaders, Martin Luther, the Luddites, the 1960s activists [of whom I was one, thankyouverymuch Dr Bill], Amnesty International, Bill Gates). OK, that works for me. Y'all please fill in the missing personages/groups. (now to check out that 'hacktivist' link...)
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"And don't forget those arrogant idiot activists back in Dec. '73, who thought that dumping tea in Boston Harbour
would change anything."
It seems possible that some of the solid citizens were involved in the Tea Party. But in the Boston Massacre, there were a lot of less commendable agitators. Boston really had some unadmirable hoodlums more interested in having some excitement than doing anything constructive.
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arrogant idiot activistsAnd don't forget that lowlife agitator, Thomas Paine, and all those upstart underground pamphlets he was publishing and distributing like "Common Sense"...pure pond scum, he was! And damn those abolitionists in the 19th century!...Imagine wanting to free the slaves!...Who did these ingrate rabble-rousers think they were? (And John Brown was a nut by anybody's standards, so don't bring him up as the poster boy for the abolition movement). And let us not forget those utterly obnoxious Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)!...Imagine having the unmitigated gall to try to save peoples' lives just because you lost a child in a drunk driving accident? What creeps, huh? To paraphrase Jackson Browne..."Doctor, my eyes..." I always want to give everybody the benefit of the doubt, but here I'm doubting your benefit. What gives? 
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AnnaS may i call you AsP, in tsuwm's absence? confesses: "the 1960s activists [of whom I was one, thankyouverymuch"Ohhhhh, *do* share photos, would you dear?
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