Cracking qua Civil Disobedience

I'm generally against malicious or vandalistic cracking because it just gives geeks a bad name; and because I fear it will eventually somehow get used against free software.

One exception I'm willing to make is cracking as a kind of principled civil disobedience. The Federation on Random Action has made a call for Electronic Civil Disobedience around May Day. Not only do they have a communique (hmm, I haven't decided yet, but I think I'm tired of the pseudo-revolutionary lingo; manifestos, communiques, revolutionary blocs, oh my!), but they are distributing cracking tools. I'm a lot more comfortable doing CD in real life, since that typically doesn't mean federal charges, and my guess is that any electronic CD is going to mean federal felonies and the FBI.

Expect arrests.