anonymous vs. FBI

Cyberculture roundup: LSE research shows piracy isn’t killing big content…Twitter IPO… Anonymous members indicted…

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  London School of Economics: piracy isn’t killing big content; government needs to be skeptical of entertainment industry claims Copyright and Creation, a policy brief from a collection of respected scholars at the rock-ribbed London School of Economics, argues that the evidence shows that piracy isn’t causing any grave harm to the entertainment industry, and that anti-piracy … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: “Turkey bans gay dating website, app Grindr… “Foursquare continues to focus on the little details…

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  Turkey bans gay dating website, app Grindr Gay and bisexual male dating website Grindr has been banned by Turkey’s Directorate of Telecommunication   Foursquare continues to focus on the little details. Now tells you where the action is on any given day of the week. Someone must have given Foursquare a kick up the … Read more

‘Syrian Electronic Army’ claims to have attacked NYT, Twitter, Huffington Post… Facebook reports of government requests… Cyberculture roundup…

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Facebook says 74 governments, including USA, demanded data on 38K users In the first half of 2013, agents of 74 different governments including our own demanded the personal data related to about 38,000 Facebook users. About half of these demands came from authorities in the United States. Facebook “is the latest technology company to release … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: “Rich Get Richer Effect Observed in BitCoin Digital Currency Network..Top Tech Companies Join Forces for Global Connectivity…

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Rich Get Richer Effect Observed in BitCoin Digital Currency Network Econophysicists studying the way people accumulate a new form of digital currency say they have observed the famous rich-get-richer effect for the first time Lawrence Lessig Strikes Back Against Bogus Copyright Takedown EFF Sues Liberation Music for Forcing Harvard Professor?s Video Off YouTube San Francisco … Read more

for the record, LulzSec frontman Sabu was probably an informant.. more on LulzSec crackdown and a cyberculture roundup…

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LulzSec frontman Sabu was FBI informant, fed Stratfor docs to Wikileaks from an FBI-owned computer by Xeni Jardin The Guardian has more on the big hacking news which Fox News broke yesterday (as noted in a post by Rob). “Sabu,” the trash-talking, self-appointed leader of LulzSec, has been working for the FBI for the last … Read more

In the mean time, Anonymous takes on the offensive against FBI

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Anonymous Unleashes Coordinated Attack Against Governments, Law Enforcement from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Anonymous is on the move. The hacker group has claimed credit for coordinated attacks and leaks against the U.S. government and international law enforcement agencies Friday. According to Twitter accounts associated with the group of ?hacktivists,? more activity can be expected throughout … Read more