of hacking me one of the only ways to protect online civil liberties and apologise a professor dr dave coleman is an expert on hacker culture and particularly the hacktivist group anonymous she joined rake in a separate earlier talk about the group and the changing face of activism in the online world he started by asking what types of people comprise anonymous. i meant everything from you know last students to wealthy engineers to those who are. very poor or to people who are immigrants in the countries that they live and she kind of white middle class american so so it's quite a diverse bunch and i think the pseudo anonymity of it where you have a stable nickname but you don't reveal who your true you are helps to create conditions for remarkable diversity yeah it is amazing that they represent so many different ideas and so many different points of view within society but you did mention something very interesting anonymous has become almost synonymous with the word hacker which you mention which still has a very negative connotation in mainstream culture how would you define that word hack