That notion represents a shift from the cypherpunk views of Marquis-Boire’s youth. Once, cypherpunks were mainly interested in seizing privacy for themselves. Now, he says, that’s no longer enough. “When we discovered that we could create private and anonymous communications with math, that was super cool,” he says. “But then after a while I think it dawned on us as a movement that the only conversations you cou
The US House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA) Should CISPA earn the president’s autograph, private businesses will be encouraged to voluntarily share cyberthreat information with the US government. Another lawmaker, Rep. Dan Maffei (D-New York), said CISPA was necessary to protect the US against “independent groups like WikiLeaks,” adding unfounded claims that the whistleblower website is “taking very aggressive measures to hack into” US computer networks.
Series: Glenn Greenwald on security and liberty XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' • XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches • Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history • NSA's XKeyscore program – read one of the presentations Wednesday 31 July 2013
LONDON—Today, Monday 27 February,[2012] WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods
Hundreds of letters defending Jeremy Hammond, who is facing 10 years in prison for email leaks, call for lenient sentence Ed Pilkington in New York theguardian.com, Monday 4 November 2013
Guardian 15 Nov 2013 Ed Pilkington Jeremy Hammond: "The government celebrates my conviction and imprisonment, hoping that it will close the door on the full story. I took responsibility for my actions, by pleading guilty, but when will the government be made to answer for its crimes?"
rawstory 14.12.13: "Omidyar’s dual role as billionaire titan of the Big Data industry and outraged champion of anti-government whistleblowers means that secrets that rightfully belong to The People are now are controlled by a man whose wealth and power are directly dependent on profitable relationships with global law enforcement." "Earlier this past week, Glenn Greenwald, Omidyar’s first editorial hire, responded to allegations from former FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds that the unpublished Snowden documents contain information about PayPal cooperation with the NSA, saying, “She made claims about what’s in NSA docs even though she has no idea what’s in them.” He also described Sibel as “crazy” and “stupid” before clarifying, “I don’t doubt PayPal cooperates with NSA.”
RT December 29, 2013 Assange’s comments were made during a panel discussion of the documentary film ‘Mediastan’ on RT. The panel also included director Johannes Wahlstrom and Afghan journalist Enayat Najafizada, who participated in the movie. The film depicts different stages in undercover WikiLeaks journalists’ trips across Central Asia