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?"
by Felix Stalder, Zurich University of the Arts and one of the moderators of the mailing list nettime. He lives in Vienna, travels abroad and archives his public output at http://felix.openflows.com
March 30th, 2019 By Whitney Webb The story behind the decision to shutter its Snowden archive suggests issues of cost were unlikely to have been behind the action.
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Amazon is the leading cloud provider for the United States intelligence community. In 2013, Amazon entered into a $600 million contract with the CIA to build a cloud for use by intelligence agencies working with information classified as Top Secret. Then, in 2017, Amazon announced the AWS Secret Region, which allows storage of data classified up to the Secret level by a broader range of agencies and companies. Amazon also operates a special GovCloud region for US Government agencies hosting unclassified information.
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
German Television does first Edward Snowden Interview (ENGLISH) German Television Channel NDR does an exclusive interview with Edward Snowden. Uploaded on LiveLeak cause German Television thinks the rest of the world isn't intereseted in Edward Snowden.
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Omidyar’s first editorial hire, responded to allegations from former FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds that the unpublished Snowden documents contain information about PayPal cooperation with the NSA, saying, “She made claims about what’s in NSA docs even though she has no idea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 18.4.: "The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act has been approved by the House of Representatives. One of the Congressman evoked Monday's deadly bombings in Boston as a reason to pass it. RT America's website producer, Andrew Blake is closely following the debates over the bill "
In the Censored News pick for the Best of the Best in 2011, Wikileaks claims first prize. Wikileaks exposed the US corporate schemes, espionage, promotion of mining and efforts globally to halt passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
afp/svd aug 2010: Den thailändska regeringen har tagit bort tiotusentals dokument från internet under de senaste åren – främst på grund av förolämpningar mot kungahuset. Ett brott som i Thailand kan resultera i 15 års fängelse. En speciell it-brottsenhet
The Guardian, 16 Oct 2010: "Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Austral