(ICYMI: Our recent open letter to Twitter concerning @JackalAnon’s attempt to claim ownership of @YourAnonNews: http://bit.ly/1uM4eKX ) You may have noticed some chaos taking place on this account lately. A lot has happened in the...
Dear Twitter: Over the past few years, we’ve become very close. We know it’s been weird. But, hey, it’s worked out pretty well for the both of us. The masses have flooded in just for the opportunity to observe our battles unfold. In the...
Cecily McMillan Found Guilty Official statement from the Justice4Cecily team: We are devastated by the Jury’s verdict today. It has been clear from day one that Cecily has not received a fair and open trial. The job of a judge during a...
Snowden: “I, an as NSA analyst, sitting at my desk, had the technically authority to wiretap anyone…” NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden recorded this video message especially for today’s Munk Debate on America’s surveillance state...
Press freedom around the world has declined to its lowest level in over a decade, with major setbacks in several Middle Eastern states, Turkey and Ukraine Source: The Guardian
Snowden Leaks Reveal Ghost In The Machine A top secret memo leaked by Snowden reveals how the NSA made an agreement with the UK’s GCHQ to share data on an “unsupervised” basis as part of a program called Olympic Option, which utilized a...
How The New Internet Rules Could Undermine Net Neutrality Igor Volsky of ThinkProgress report: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will release proposed draft rules on Thursday that will “allow content companies to pay Internet...
F.B.I. Informant [Sabu] Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad Mark Mazzetti of the NY Times reports: Shortly after the Stratfor incident, Mr. Monsegur, 30, began supplying Mr. Hammond with lists of foreign websites that might be vulnerable to...
City Will Pay $55,000 To Settle Case of Occupy Livestreamer Josh Boss, Tackled By High-Ranking NYPD Chief Anna Merlan of The Village Voice Reports the city agreed to pay $55,000 in the case of Josh Boss, who was livestreaming a December...
Gag order lifted, documents unsealed in USA v. Barrett Brown : freebarrettbrown : Today district court judge Sam Lindsay issued an order unsealing documents and vacating the September 4, 2013 gag order in Barrett Brown’s case. A veil of...
Dorian Nakamoto thanks Bitcoin community for $23,000 donation by Kevin Collier | DailyDot Dorian Nakamoto, who has said he suffered enormously when Newsweek claimed he is mysterious Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, just got a 48 BTC...
Private Spies Deserve More Scrutiny : It turns out being the only imprisoned journalist in the United States doesn’t get you on CNN or MSNBC. If you’re Barrett Brown, a firebrand with an outlandish style, a penchant for insulting those...
Weev: I Went to Prison Because Ronald Reagan Was Senile Abby Martin speaks with hacker and notorious internet troll Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer, discussing the overturning of his prison sentence after being charged with conspiracy under...
Judge Dismisses Auernheimer’s (weev’s) Indictment and Lifts Release Conditions Today, Judge Wigenton issued an order dismissing Andrew Auernheimer’s indictment in the District of New Jersey and releasing Auernheimer from the conditions...
Bitcoin Creator ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ Unmasked–Again? by Pail Vigna | WSJ A month after a firestorm erupted over Newsweek’s claim that it “unmasked” the creator of bitcoin , a U.K. university has released a new study that points to a...