Citations:digilante

Noun: "a person who engages in vigilantism on or through the Internet"

 * 1998 — David Brin, The Transparent Society: WIll Technology Force Use to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?, Perseus Books (1998), ISBN 9780738201443, page 164:
 * Other computer wizards have become cult figures after rushing to defend their idea of Internet purity, for example, when several hacker "digitantes" sabotaged Cyber Promotions, Inc., one of the most hated e-mail advertisers, or "spammers."
 * 2007 — Ruth Martin, "Digilante Justice," The New Atlantis, Number 16, Spring 2007:
 * Digilantes shoot cameras, not Colts, allowing almost anyone to fight even an offline wrong in cyberspace.
 * 2011 — Divina Frau-Meigs, Media Matters in the Cultural Contradictions of the "Information Society" — Towards a Human Rights-Based Governance, Council of Europe Publishing (2011), ISBN 9789287168344, page 170:
 * The American cultural bias is also visible in the solutions proposed, most of them based on "self-help": accountability in an interdependent world is promoted via market self-regulation as a first choice; PETs and security tools lead to the promotion of hackers and information crackers as "digilantes";
 * 2011 — Kevin Pereira, "Why Griefing is Good", Wired, 26 April 2011:
 * I certainly wouldn't diminish those with real talent and ability by calling myself a hacker; I was a cyberdouche at best. I say this only to illustrate that I know where the self-professed digilantes of our day—the kids who spam your chat rooms, flood your Minecraft worlds, and cripple your web servers for sport—are coming from.
 * 2011 — Kashmir Hill, "'London Riots Facial Recognition' Vigilantes Abandon Their Project", Forbes, 8 November 2011:
 * After a group of digilantes formed a Google Group this week dedicated to applying facial recognition technology to photos from the London riots to identify culprits, it caused quite a stir in the media.