Hacktivism as the future of activism?

Forwarded from the labs of Dr.Dos, Zombie Master:

http://www.grc.com/dos/drdos.htm
http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/distributed/
http://thehacktivist.com/ecd.php
http://www.obn.org/reading_room/writings/html/notevery.html
http://www.hackaday.com/
http://thetechdomain.com/?p=27

Does anybody understand this insanity?!
Could these technical processes be better utilized by activists?