User:Abovfold/Sandbox/Cyber militia
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Cyber militias are groups of volunteers who are willing and able use cyberattacks in order to achieve a political objective. Distinct from hacktivists and trolls, they
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Sometimes quietly, in the background, being encouraged by governments, but they are not really government operations. These are civilian operations
Scott Borg, director and chief economist of the nonprofit US Cyber Consequences Unit has suggested many cyber militias have been animated by ethnonationalism.[1]
However, even an ad-hoc cyber militia that is not under direct state control can be a useful extension of a state’s cyber power.
Cyber militias have been purported to have been used as covers for covert activities by employees of the governments of China, Russia, and Ukraine.[2]