The Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond (1/28/85) from Chicago suburb is a prominent political activist and hacktivist. Jeremy got into computers at very young age. When he was 5 he was already coding games. He won a district-wide competition as a student in Glenbard East High School for a computer program he designed. While in high school he became a piece activist and organized walk-around protested against war in Iraq and started a school newspaper opposing war in Iraq. During the summer after his graduation from the high school Jeremy created the website www.hackthissite.org. It had 2.5 million hits during first two years, and gained 110,000 users and a volunteer staff of 34. As of 2013 number of users grew to 1,800,000. Hackthissite.org or HTS is an online hacking and security website. Website provides users with a way to learn and practice basic and advanced "hacking" skills through a series of challenges, called “missions” in a safe and legal environment. It also features articles on different topics, and forum. Jeremy Hammond, 17 years old back then, came under the lights of hacker’s community after he delivered the speech in 2004 at the annual Def Con Hackers conference. “Hammond …show more content…
He was prosecuted for hacking into the emails of private intelligence company Stratfor and sharing some of it via website WikiLeaks. The information he reveled was highly classified. Hammond came across the Stratford not by himself. He was pushed into that by other hacker, Sabu. Hammond stated, that he never heard about Stratford before Sabu introduced him to it. As it appeared later, when Hammond was already arrested, Sabu made a deal with the FBI and was working as an informant for the agency. Which, as some view, was just a setup to lock Hammond