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Derived from combining the words "hack" and "activism", the term “hacktivism” was first coined in 1996 by Omega, a member of the hacker collective Cult of the Dead Cow.

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When researching into Hacktivists, I realised how much of a serious issue this is. The researched allowed me to understand the play and helped in the development of my character. For example, at the begin of the play, my character is just having fun, but then the seriousness of what the group had planned and understanding from research what damage can be done when  hacking I decided to take my character from being fun to more aggressive and serious.

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Ockrent is a award-winning writer who works on  films, television and directing theatre.

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In the US, he's currently developing a new scripted comedy for Lionsgate / Sacha Baron Cohen's 4 x 2 and another for BBC Worldwide. In the UK, he's developing a new scripted comedy with Martin Freeman's Dancing Ledge, a feature film for Nick Frost and a new stage musical for the Young Vic Theatre.

Previous TV work in the UK includes The Secrets (BBC1); Youngers (E4); Joe Mistry (ITV2 pilot); Waterloo Road (BBC1) and Material Girl (BBC1). Other non-broadcast commissioned work includes Genius (Tiger Aspect); Khoa San Road (BBC3) and Kidnapped (BBC3). In the US, he's sold comedy pilots to FX and TV Land and a drama pilot to Paramount Studios / Anonymous Content.

Previous theatre work includes More Than Words (Neal Street/Fiery Angel); Hacktivists (National Theatre Connections); Breeders (St. James Theatre, Planet London Award for Best New Play); Provenance (Manhattan Theatre Club performed reading); Carrot (Latitude Festival), The Pleasure Principle (Tristan Bates Theatre) and Honey, which was nominated for an Olivier Award as a part of the Tricycle Theatre's season, Afghanistan: The Great Game (which toured the US, including a one-off performance in the Pentagon).

For the radio, he's currently writing a new drama for BBC Radio 4. Other radio plays include Cordite For Breakfast (BBC Radio 4); Vital Statistics (BBC Radio 4) and Honey (BBC Radio 3).

Ben has also directed some of the world's most celebrated actors in his own short films. His first, Dust, starring Alan Rickman and the new Dr Who, Jodie Whittaker, was long- listed for the BAFTA for Best Short Film and nominated for a National Film Award for Best Short Film. His second, Edmund the Magnificent, was financed by Creative England / BFI, stars David Bradley (Game of Thrones, Harry Potter) and Sir Ian McKellen and was also long-listed for the BAFTA.

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In the US, he's currently developing a new scripted comedy for Lionsgate / Sacha Baron Cohen's 4 x 2 and another for BBC Worldwide. In the UK, he's developing a new scripted comedy with Martin Freeman's Dancing Ledge, a feature film for Nick Frost and a new stage musical for the Young Vic Theatre.

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In today’s lesson we was going through all the scenes and trying to do it without our scripts and getting prompt if we really needed it also we was giving each other ideas on what we should be doing and what characters should be acting and we also where given some ideas by Mandy on how to do the transitions for example using some  torches to add  dynamics

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Each scene started with discussion and improvisation.

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In today’s lesson  we all spoke in a group and put some ideas on what the we feel like the set should look like and then we came to having the stage the way we did also we read through our script a few more times before trying to stage our Sceen 1

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I feel like I’ve based my character on that friend that I feel like every Friendship group has where there kind of dumber then everyone else but no one has the heart to tell them

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Front Centre stage  red sofa

Top right corner 4 tables and 8 chairs 2 laptops

Top left 2 tables  4 chairs

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Adrian Lamo was named 'the homeless hacker' for his penchant for using coffee shops, libraries and internet cafés as his bases for hacking. Most of his illicit activities involved breaking into computer networks and then reporting on their vulnerabilities to the companies that owned them. Lamo's biggest claim to fame came when he broke into the intranet of the New York Times and added his name to their database of experts. He also used the paper's LexisNexis account to gain access to the confidential details of high-profile subjects. Lamo currently works as a journalist.

4. Stephen Wozniak

Famous for being the co-founder of Apple, Stephen "Woz" Wozniak began his 'white-hat' hacking career with 'phone phreaking' - slang for bypassing the phone system. While studying at the University of California he made devices for his friends called 'blue boxes' that allowed them to make free long distance phone calls. Wozniak allegedly used one such device to call the Pope. He later dropped out of university after he began work on an idea for a computer. He formed Apple Computer with his friend Steve Jobs and the rest, as they say, is history.

5. Loyd Blankenship

Also known as The Mentor, Blankenship was a member of a couple of hacker elite groups in the 1980s - notably the Legion Of Doom, who battled for supremacy online against the Masters Of Deception. However, his biggest claim to fame is that he is the author of the Hacker Manifesto (The Conscience of a Hacker), which he wrote after he was arrested in 1986. The Manifesto states that a hacker's only crime is curiosity and is looked at as not only a moral guide by hackers up to today, but also a cornerstone of hacker philosophy. It was reprinted in Phrack magazine and even made its way into the 1995 film Hackers, which starred Angelina Jolie.

6. Michael Calce

Calce gained notoriety when he was just 15 years old by hacking into some of the largest commercial websites in the world. On Valentine's Day in 2000, using the hacker alias MafiaBoy, Calce launched a series of denial-of-service attacks across 75 computers in 52 networks, which affected sites such as eBay, Amazon and Yahoo. He was arrested after he was noticed boasting about his hack in online chat rooms. He was received a sentence of eight months of "open custody," one year of probation, restricted use of the internet, and a small fine.

7. Robert Tappan Morris

In November of 1988 a computer virus, which was later traced to Cornell University, infected around 6,000 major Unix machines, slowing them down to the point of being unusable and causing millions of dollars in damage. Whether this virus was the first of its type is debatable. What is public record, however, is that its creator, Robert Tappan Morris, became the first person to be convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Morris said his 'worm' virus wasn't intended to damage anything and was instead released to gauge the size of the internet. This assertion didn't help him, however, and he was sentenced to three years probation, 4000 hours of community service and a hefty fine. A computer disk containing the source code for the Morris Worm remains on display at the Boston Museum of Science to this day.

8. The Masters Of Deception

The Masters Of Deception (MoD) were a New York-based group of elite hackers who targeted US phone systems in the mid to late 80s. A splinter group from the Legion Of Doom (LoD), they became a target for the authorities after they broke into AT&T's computer system. The group was eventually brought to heel in 1992 with many of its members receiving jail or suspended sentences.

9. David L. Smith

Smith is the author of the notorious Melissa worm virus, which was the first successful email-aware virus distributed in the Usenet discussion group alt. sex. The virus original form was sent via email. Smith was arrested and later sentenced to jail for causing over $80 million worth of damage.

10. Sven Jaschan

Jaschan was found guilty of writing the Netsky and Sasser worms in 2004 while he was still a teenager. The viruses were found to be responsible for 70 per cent of all the malware seen spreading over the internet at the time. Jaschan received a suspended sentence and three years probation for his crimes. He was also hired by a security company.

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Adrian Lamo was named 'the homeless hacker' for his penchant for using coffee shops, libraries and internet cafés as his bases for hacking. Most of his illicit activities involved breaking into computer networks and then reporting on their vulnerabilities to the companies that owned them.

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In todays lesson we where all given what play we was going to be performing Which is obviously hacktivivists  and what characters we was and from this we had one sit down read through and then we sat down with some computers and done some in-depth research to get more of an understanding what the play was and stuff

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Operation Olympic Games was a covert and still unacknowledged campaign of sabotage by means of cyber disruption, directed at Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States and likely Israel. As reported, it is one of the first known uses of offensive cyber weapons. Started under the administration of George W.

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I based my character on my cousin as I see alot  of things they both could relate on for example  they  absolutely dedicated to computers and how they work and everything to do with the hole concept  they also love going to school even if it means them getting bullied in a way she has a small friendship group but that doesn’t stop her being the miss know is all

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the gaining of unauthorized access to data in a system or computer.
The three types of hackers are the white hat hacker, the grey hat hacker, and the black hat hacker. Each type of hacker hacks for a different reason, a cause, or both

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Hacktivist attacks dropped by 95% since 2015

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Threat intelligence analysts have long said that hacktivism was dead but new data published by IBM X-Force today confirms the complete collapse of hacktivism scene, with activity levels going down by 95% since 2015.

According to IBM, security incidents caused by hacker groups operating under hacktivism causes has been on a decline since 2015, when the company recorded a peak, with 35 publicly reported incidents.

Since then, incidents have gone down at a steady pace, with only five reported in 2017, two in 2018, and zero during the first months of the year.

Attacks from hacktivist groups have continued to happen, but the number of actual incidents (successful breaches) has gone down at a constant pace.

Researchers blame two factors for this decline -- the death of the Anonymous hacker collective and a sustained crackdown by law enforcement officials that have thinned out hacktivist ranks.

The death of Anonymous

Probably the biggest role in the collapse of hacktivist activity had the disintegration of the Anonymous hacker collective, which according to IBM, was responsible for nearly 45% of all hacktivist-attributed security breaches.

Image: IBM X-Force

Anonymous hackers were once breaching companies and government networks for various humanitarian or social causes, but according to IBM, the group's name has now been tarnished by its involvement with politically-themed campaigns, which started around 2016, and which IBM says has turned away many of its members.

From campaigns like #OpKKK (exposing KKK members), #OpParis (exposing ISIS members), #OpISIS (exposing ISIS members/sites), #OpWhale (breaching sites of Japanese and Icelandic authorities involved in unauthorized whaling), or #OpIcarus (attacking banks and financial institutions), the group has been seen in recent years dumping data stolen from political organizations, which in some cases was proven to have been tampered with.

This has led to the rise of the term "fake Anons" to describe Anonymous members either not associated with the group, or acting on personal agendas -- seeing to promote various social or political propaganda, or profit from the Anonymous community financially.

Fake Anons have split the larger group, once acting on common beliefs, into smaller splinter cells operating on their own creeds, sometimes in a complete opposition with other Anonymous factions, causing confusion among the wider public and other members as well. With a lack of leadership and with a confusing agenda, members have slowly peeled off, disavowing the Anonymous name.

"Any attempt to decrease the number of fake Anons may have led to a decrease in the number of true Anonymous actors overall," said IBM threat analyst Camille Singleton.

Further, the involvement of nation-state groups has also tarnished the Anonymous name. These nation-state groups, often operated by elite intelligence agencies, have masqueraded as Anonymous to push political propaganda or advance public influence campaigns.

Their actions have caused many Anonymous members to distrust the group as a whole, and focus their efforts on something else other than hacktivism.

But nothing has led to the group's demise more than the inefficiency of most of its attacks. Defacing websites and launching DDoS attacks rarely gets anything done.

Neither does stealing data from websites that are completely unrelated to a specific topic. In many cases, Anonymous hackers ended up dumping personal user information into the public domain and hurting innocent people for ridiculous causes, attracting both scorn and ridicule.

This, in turn, has led to increased attention from law enforcement agencies, which cracked down on both members of the bigger Anonymous and LulzSec groups, but also the smaller ones.

Arrests, arrests, arrests

"X-Force IRIS internal tracking of related arrests revealed that law enforcement agencies in the U.S., U.K. and Turkey have arrested at least 62 hacktivists since 2011," Singleton said. "We suspect the actual number is greater than those publicly announced."

Some of the most high-profile arrests include Martin Gottesfeld, the Anonymous hacker who DDoSed Boston Children's Hospital; James Robinson, who protested police abuse in Ohio; and Deric Lostutter, an Anonymous member who exposed a rape case in Kentucky.

But many more other arrests have also taken place [ 1, 2, 3]. Despite this, Singleton doesn't see hacktivism going away for good.

"Acute social justice issues, greater organizational capabilities among hacktivist groups and a stronger shift to areas that lay beyond the reach of law enforcement all have the potential to dramatically change the face of hacktivism in a relatively short period of time. More likely than not, we are experiencing a lull in hacktivist activity rather than a conclusion," the IBM researcher said.

However, some would disagree with Singleton's conclusion. For many, hacktivism is dead.

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Threat intelligence analysts have long said that hacktivism was dead but new data published by IBM X-Force today confirms the complete collapse of hacktivism scene, with activity levels going down by 95% since 2015. According to IBM, security incidents caused by hacker groups operating under hacktivism causes has been on a decline since 2015, when the company recorded a peak, with 35 publicly reported incidents.

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The head of props and/or furnishings is responsible to the designers for achieving their designs. I enjoy creating the scene and designing of the set, I feel this would be my production role as I enjoy organising and finding props that help the scene came alive.

Duties:

- Collaborates with set designer

- Researches time period to ensure period accuracy to the extent possible

- In accordance with the director’s vision, builds, borrows, rents props or furnishings

- Attends production meetings

- Supplies rehearsal props and/or furnishings

- Attends rehearsals as available

- Attends load- in and set- up, dress rehearsals, etc.

- Arranges to replenish or repair props and/or furnishings during the run

Skills:

- Ability to build, repair props and/or furnishings

- Talent for scrounging and getting great bargains

- Strong interpersonal skills

- Strong communication skills

- Strong organizational skills

- Strong supervisory skills

- Financially responsible

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Hacktivism is usually directed at corporate or government targets. Hacktivists' targets include religious organizations, terrorists, drug dealers, and pedophiles. An example of hacktivism is denial of service attacks (DoS) which shut down a system to prevent customer access.

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Hacktivists by Ben Ockrent **Academy of Creative Training Youth Theatre** When Eloise is tasked with showing new girl, Beth, around ...

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National Theatre connections commission ten new plays for young people to perform, Hacktivists was commissioned in 2015.

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Each year the National Theatre commissions ten new plays for young people to perform, bringing together some of the UK's most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow.

Every year, 300 youth theatre companies and over 6,000 young people from every corner of the UK are producing a Connections play this year.

The National Theatre's Partner for Learning is Bank of America.

Connections is supported by The Mohn Westlake Foundation, The Buffini Chao Foundation, Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, Delta Air Lines, The Peter Cundill Foundation, Mactaggart Third Fund, The EBM Charitable Trust, Samantha and Richard Campbell-Breeden, Susan Miller and Byron Grote, The Broughton Family Charitable Trust and Katie Bradford.
Photograph by The Other Richard

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Each year the National Theatre commissions ten new plays for young people to perform, bringing together some of the UK's most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow. Every year, 300 youth theatre companies and over 6,000 young people from every corner of the UK are producing a Connections play this year.

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Black jeans or leggings
Boots or trainers

School uniform
White top
Red and yellow tie
Skirt or school trousers
Long socks
Boots
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A gray hat hacker is someone who may violate ethical standards or principles, but without the malicious intent ascribed to black hat hackers. Gray hat hackers may engage in practices that seem less than completely above board, but are often operating for the common good. Gray hat hackers represent the middle ground between white hat hackers, who operate on behalf of those maintaining secure systems, and black hat hackers who act maliciously to exploit vulnerabilities in systems.

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Black hat refers to a hacker who breaks into a computer system or network with malicious intent. A black hat hacker may exploit security vulnerabilities for monetary gain; to steal or destroy private data; or to alter, disrupt or shut down websites and networks.

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A white hat hacker is a computer security specialist who breaks into protected systems and networks to test and asses their security. White hat hackers use their skills to improve security by exposing vulnerabilities before malicious hackers (known as black hat hackers) can detect and exploit them.

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Computer
Pens
Pencils
Walter bottles
Spanner’s
Hammers
Screwdriver
Sweets

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My characters name is Jenny she’s 15 years old and her nationality is white British she is the only Child and lives with both parents and her nan next door  she is in the higher middle class she’s a student with no personal income other then her parents giving her 20 pounds a week for things she might want but she saves most of it for a rainy day she is 4ft11inch she tends to be quite shy she’s got social anxiety Which makes her not  like big crowds but when she’s in her small friends she’s quite sarcastic and big headed she tends to get bullied so does her hole friendship group she tends to be dressed really smart  while at school but on the weekends she wears really girly stuff

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While we have been studying This play I’ve come to realise there’s quite about it themes.For example, Greed
Hacking
Betrayal
Loyalty
Friendship
Manipulation

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Archie -Jess
Beth-Emily
Steve-Blake
Mark&seb-James
Hugs-Becca
Eloise-Lydia
Tania-Annabelle
Cath-Karma
Jenny-me
Drew-Chelsea key
Per-Tyler
Nisha- Bethany