Anonymous raises $54,798 through Indiegogo to kick-start its dedicated news site for Your Anon News from The Next Web by Nick Summers Who Really Opposes CISPA? from EFF.org Updates by Rainey Reitman In a hearing earlier today on the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), Representative Mike Rogers dismissed the opposition … Read more
Some Things Never Change: Governments Still Present Biggest Threat to Open Internet from EFF.org Updates by Jillian C. York Some things change, but others stay the same. While the types of threats facing Internet users worldwide have diversified over the past few years, from targeted malware to distributed denial of service attacks, one thing … Read more
Microsoft?s security team is killing it: Not one product on Kaspersky?s top 10 vulnerabilities list from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski EFF Launches New Transparency Project from EFF.org Updates by Jennifer Lynch IMAGiNE BitTorrent Piracy Group Members Jailed from TorrentFreak by Ernesto September last year IMAGiNE stopped distributing new films via their private BitTorrent … Read more
4 Simple Changes to Stop Online Tracking from EFF.org Updates by Dan Auerbach Whoa, you aren’t browsing with Javascript, congratulations! You probably don’t need this tutorial, which will look broken for you. Just install an adblocker with a privacy/tracking protection list, block third-party cookies, block referers, and install HTTPS Everywhere. ***** The Pirate Bay ditches … Read more
LEAKED! TPP: the Son of ACTA will oblige America and other countries to throw out privacy, free speech and due process for easier copyright enforcement from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow What Is Wrong With the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) from EFF.org Updates by Carolina Rossini and Maira Sutton EFF has been fighting against the … Read more
Twitter answers accusations of censorship for closing French anti-Sarkozy accounts from The Next Web by Anna Heim Did you know that the French President Nicolas Sarkozy had opened a Twitter account? Its opponents certainly do, as several parody and critical accounts have been suspended by Twitter over the last days, generatingaccusations of censorship. FCC: Cybersecurity … Read more
EFF Unveils New Project: Bloggers Under Fire from EFF.org Updates by jillian 2011 was by many accounts ?the year of the protester.? From Tunisia to Oakland, activists took to the streets?and to social networks?to express themselves and their grievances. But while many were successful in using online tools in their activism, others faced grave consequences. … Read more
The FBI’s Next Generation Identification: Bigger and Faster but Much Worse for Privacy from EFF.org Updates by jlynch This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and several other organizations released documents from a FOIA lawsuit that expose the concerted efforts of the FBI and DHS to build a massive database of personal and biometric … Read more
Julian Assange: Facebook Is a Spy Machine [VIDEO] by Stan Schroeder WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange touched on the subject of social networking in an interview with Russia Today, calling Facebook ?the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented.? Julian Assange: Facebook Is An Appalling Spy Machine from All Facebook by Nick O’Neill … Read more
Wikileaks Resources Wikileaks Resources 1. Wikileaks Events Calendar 2. Wikileaks Petitions 3. Support Wikileaks 4. Main Wikileaks Resources 5. Cablegate Resources 6. War Leaks 7. Frequent Falsehoods 8. Twitter Archive 9. Press Archive 10. Video Archive . . . Wikileaks Events Calendar (may take a minute to load) Please note, some events may be duplicated. … Read more
The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011 from Berkman Center Newsfeed by syoung The Berkman Center is pleased to share a new report from the OpenNet Initiative (ONI): West Censoring East: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011 The report analyzes the use of American and Canadian-made tools … Read more
WikiLeaks Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize from Mashable! by Lauren Indvik A member of the Parliament of Norway says he has nominated WikiLeaks for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Snorre Valen, a member of the Socialist Left party, announced his decision to nominate the whistle-blowing organization on his blog. A Nobel Peace Prize for Assange? … Read more
Online Censorship Grows in 2010, Showing Power of Netizens from MediaShift Despite some good PR for online freedom this year, online censorship grew and became more subtle in 2010. Online propaganda remains strong within countries like China and Iran, where media censorship is everywhere and the governments have mastered online censorship tools. These countries are … Read more
Bram Cohen Justin Frankel Jon Lech Johansen Shawn Fanning Four horsemen of the information apocalypse: Cohen, Fanning, Johansen and Frankel from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Time magazine’s Lev Grossman’s got a great profile of four authors of notorious software tools that formed the nexus of the last 12 years of copyright cold-wars: Bram Cohen … Read more
EFF’s Guide to Protecting Electronic Devices and Data at the U.S. Border from EFF.org Updates by marcia Amid recent reports that security researchers have experienced difficulties at the United States border after traveling abroad, we realized that it’s been awhile since we last discussed how to safeguard electronic devices and digital information during border searches. … Read more