Cyberculture roundup: John Cusack hangs around with EFF people… PEW: Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online

Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online 86% of online adults have taken steps to avoid surveillance by other people or organizations when using the internet. Despite precautions, 21% have had an email or social media account hijacked and 11% have had vital information stolen. John Cusack in hacker-land How I spent the weekend: I flew to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and … Read more

an interview with David Harvey… Academies of hatred… A literati roundup…

Preoccupying: an interview with David Harvey David Harvey highlights the importance of challenging the state and addresses the everchanging ideal of the city and the social groups that sustain and contest it. Academies of hatred A series of public events in Wroc?aw, Poland?s European Capital of Culture in 2016, have been disrupted by radicals. Those … Read more

In the mean time in US, PRISM scandal, Bradley Manning trial and more… Cyberculture roundup…

The PRISM spin war has begun The war over how to spin revelations of the National Security Agency’s latest spying program has officially begun.   Anonymous lays out plan for its independent news site, funded by $55,000 from Indiegogo It?s been some six weeks since ?hacktivist? group Anonymous raised $55,000 from Indiegogo to build its … Read more