This article was first written in 2011 by currently imprisoned journalist Barrett Brown. It offers a view into surveillance programs and operations that were being used in the pre-Snowden era. [...]
Guardian We may have hacked Sony back in the day, but we are still a social justice movement, from economic inequality to police brutality. Hacktivism is still the future Here in prison, I am [...]
ACLU We are the founders of PubPeer.com, an online forum for scientific discussion of research scholarship. We and many of the users of our website are anonymous. That anonymity is important for [...]
Wired Growing up in Soviet Ukraine in the 1980s, Whatsapp founder Jan Koum learned to distrust the government and detest its surveillance. After he emigrated to the U.S. and created his [...]
BBC Hungary has decided to shelve a proposed tax on internet data traffic after mass protests against the plan. “This tax in its current form cannot be introduced,” Prime Minister [...]
Wired The National Security Agency has some of the brightest minds working on its sophisticated surveillance programs, including its metadata collection efforts. But a new chat program designed [...]
McClatchy WASHINGTON — A nonprofit watchdog group is suing an obscure Defense Department unit over its failure for three years to disclose the results of testing on the security safeguards of [...]
Time Advancements in technology have fueled this White House’s obsession with controlling the message. Jay Carney is free. But not loose – at least so far. After resigning as the press [...]
The Intercept The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, [...]
Whistleblower urges consumers to adopt more secure file storage systems which are less susceptible to government surveillance Guardian Edward Snowden has warned against the cloud storage service [...]