Oxblood Ruffin

Oxblood Ruffin is a Canadian hacker. He is a member of the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc), for which he serves as "Foreign Minister." He is also the founder and executive director of Hacktivismo, an offshoot of cDc. Ruffin is active in human rights causes and is a vocal proponent of hacktivism, a term which he has helped to define. He has participated in both technology and human rights conferences, both on his own and along with cDc. He also has written articles for The Register and .net. Ruffin is also an infrequent contributor to both the cDc blog and the Hacktivismo News blog.

External links

Archive.org snapshot of now defunct Oxblood Ruffin website
Cult of the Dead Cow website
Hacktivismo website
"Hacktivism: From Here to There" - a paper presented by Ruffin at Yale Law School's Conference on Cybercrime in 2004

Cult of the Dead Cow

People	Grandmaster Ratte' Oxblood Ruffin Dildog Mudge Lord Digital Mixter Sir Dystic

Tools	Back Orifice Back Orifice 2000 NBName SMBRelay xB Browser

Related articles	Hacktivismo Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement Demon Roach Underground HoHoCon

Associated organizations	L0pht Mindvox Legion of Doom Masters of Deception YIPL/TAP Sacrament of Transition ACiD Productions Soulz at Zero

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