2011: The year of the hack

As I mentioned earlier this week the Internet is mired down in a bajillion ‘best of’ lists. There are lists for everything: books, music, tv shows, commercials, recipes, liars, blog posts, you name it, there’s a list for it. Most of the lists are mind-numbingly boring and utterly predictable. Unless, of course, you’re talking about a list of the best hacks of the year (and we’re talking real hacking here and not lifehacks or IKEA hacks or updating someone else’s Facebook status about how rad you are when they left their computer unguarded).

Okay, The Atlantic doesn’t call them the best, but The Hacks That Mattered in the Year of the Hack. It’s worth a read, if you’re at all interested in the Anonymous wing of 4chan and the off shoots, or how hacking may (or may not) have been behind the Occupy Movement.

Also, can we all agree that hacktivist might be one of the better made-up words of the year?