Cablegate: When openness and privacy collide
At this week's IFA Berlin show, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange defended his decision to release more than 250,000 unredacted US State Department cables. I wonder what he'd say to the families of those who...
View ArticleWikiLeaks posts minute-by-minute tribute to emergency response to 9/11 attacks
WikiLeaks yesterday re-enacted the 9/11 terrorist attacks by re-posting in real time the pager text messages of Pentagon, FBI and FEMA responders that show the confusion, grief and horror as hardened...
View ArticleLeaking tomorrow: unauthorized bio of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange
Assange signed the deal, took the money, said too much, tried to quit. But he'd already spent the money. So the book comes out tomorrow on Kindle on Amazon. read more
View ArticleHow hackers get caught
Carelessness in concealing home IP addresses, servers and Twitter accounts puts the FBI on more hacker doorsteps than any mistake but the most obvious: don't tell people you did it.read more
View ArticleEven Julian Assange underestimates how great a 'surveillance machine' the...
The founder of WikiLeaks bemoaned the secretive practices of governments online and the fast-fading fading privacy of individuals yesterday. Assange said IT is the greatest benefit to transparency in...
View ArticleSecurity vendors help covert agencies spy on their own citizens: WikiLeaks
Intelligence agencies listen in on conversations, texts, tap location data, Internet postings, mostly to warehouse in the hope of finding something interesting, sometimes using 'inaccurate' location...
View ArticleNo. 1 tech story of 2011: The war for control of the Internet (and your data)
From net neutrality to CarrierIQ to Twitter subpoenas, the battle over digital rights and privacy rages on.read more
View ArticleWhich is worse: Leaking secret cables for a good cause or urinating on...
Bradley Manning is charged with one of the largest thefts of classified data ever, allegedly to oppose illegal killing, detention and torture of prisoners. Four Marines allegedly urinated on dead...
View ArticleBiggest sites extend SOPA protest to try to stop Senate's Internet-censoring...
Some of the web's largest sites plan dramatic displays to mark their opposition not to the just-shelved House SOPA bill, but to the still-viable, still dangerous Senate effort at Internet censorship,...
View ArticleWhy CISPA sucks and what you can do about it
Want to stop private companies from sharing your personal information with Uncle Sam? Better hope that CISPA doesn't pass. read more
View ArticleHow CISPA threatens our First Amendment rights
The latest 'cyber security' bill is less about protecting us from hackers and spies, and much more about using Facebook and Google to prosecute whistleblowers.read more
View ArticleThe Weekly Hash - August 24, 2012
A review of some of the top tech stories for the past week, with tongue planted firmly somewhere near cheek.read more
View ArticleExplaining the Anonymous and WikiLeaks split
Confused (and saddened) by the recent split between Anonymous and WikiLeaks? Allow us to help explain it all so even your mom will understandread more
View ArticleThe Weekly Hash - October 19, 2012
A review of this week's top tech stories, from the space shuttle to Red Lobsterread more
View ArticleIs Julian Assange worth protecting?
To some, the uber WikiLeaker is a hero. To others, he's just a raging egomaniac who's no longer relevant. read more
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