Hacktivist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who engages in hacktivism.

    "One type of badvocate, sometimes identified as a troll, is a hacktivist.."

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"Tom moonlights as a hacktivist."

Etymology

Blend of hack + activist, a portmanteau coined in 1994 by a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective.

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