Thoughts on civil disobedience in the digital realm — In the late 2000s and early 2010s, the hacker group Anonymous gained notoriety for executing a series of DDOS attacks against several high-profile targets, including the Church of Scientology, Amazon, Paypal, Mastercard, and Visa. For non-techies, DDOS stands for “distributed denial of service.” It’s a kind of cyber attack in…