A computer hacker who breaks into systems to further an activist agenda. Also: hactivist. Example Citation: Members of the Hong Kong Blondes, a covert group, claim to have gotten into Chinese military computers and to have temporarily shut down a communications satellite last year in a hacktivist protest. The ultimate aim is to use hacktivism to ameliorate human rights conditions, says Oxblood Ruffin, a member of the Toronto-based Cult of the Dead Cow (www.cultdeadcow.com), one of the oldest hacker groups in North America, who serves as unofficial spokesman for the having-more-fun Blondes. —Bay Fang, Chinese hacktivists spin a Web of trouble, U.S. News & World Report Earliest Citation: Ever since 1990, when about 300 queers descended on the park at the behest of a local computer hacktivist unfortunately named Doug Swallow, gays and lesbians have annually stormed the Magic Kingdom — with tacit encouragement from the management. —James Hannaham, Deep Disney: Gay Day In the Magic Kingdon, The Village Voice, June 27, 1995

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