bradley manning

A massive cyberculture roundup: EFF on Spotify; wired vs. wikileaks; social media friends turning into real life ones; on digital literacies…

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via How Social Media 'Friends' Translate Into Real-Life Friendships from MediaShift When social media first gained attention, I heard many people scoff that these online connections couldn't possibly be real friends. Some even used "Facebook friend" as a synonym for shallowness, fearing people might trade face-to-face interaction for a virtual life online.   France Tracks … Read more

Speaking of privacy, Murdoch’s daily shows old media is not better than new media… A cyberculture roundup…

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Advertisers Announce Boycott of UK Tabloid on Twitter by Todd Wasserman MAIN FOCUS: Hacking scandal compromises Murdoch | 08/07/2011 from euro|topics Rupert Murdoch’s US-based concern News Corp on Thursday announced the closure of the British tabloid News of the World. Journalists on the newspaper have been accused among other things of hacking into the telephones … Read more

Manning under harsh treatment… a Cyberculture roundup…

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  US military’s “gratuitously harsh treatment” of Manning condemned by NYT, WaPo, LAT, ACLU from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin A growing number of news organizations and civil liberties groups are condemning the Department of Defense’s “gratuitously harsh treatment” of Bradley Manning, a young Army intelligence specialist charged with downloading thousands of US government documents … Read more

Anonymous vs. HBGary. Al Jazeera piece on cyberwar. and a cyberculture roundup…

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  Lessons from Anonymous on cyberwar   A cyberwar is brewing, and Anonymous reprisal attacks on HBGary Federal shows how deep the war goes. Haroon Meer “Cyberwar” is a heavily loaded term, which conjures up Hollywood inspired images of hackers causing oil refineries to explode. Some security celebrities came out very strongly against the thought … Read more

Cablegate resources and more… A cyberculture roundup…

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Cablegate Resources from WL Central by x7o Contents 1. Introduction 2. Data Resources 3. Revelations 4. WL Central Coverage ***********************   On Air Live at 4 pm New York Time/9 pm United Kingdom Time   The next episode of “This Week in WikiLeaks” will air live at 4 pm New York Time/9 pm United Kingdom … Read more

from Global Guerrillas: “Cell Phone Coordination of Open Source Protests” and Cyberculture roundup

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JOURNAL: Cell Phone Coordination of Open Source Protests from Global Guerrillas by John Robb Here’s a cool little phone app called Sukey to help people navigate during a protest/riot.  Very useful in avoiding kettling (a slang term for police crowd containment).  Check out the tutorial. What Is Data Privacy Day? [INFOGRAPHIC] from Mashable! by Sarah … Read more

WikiLeaks fulfills pledge for Bradley Manning. Cablegate roundup

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2011-01-13 Bradley Manning Support Network: WikiLeaks fulfills pledge Jeff Paterson, speaking for the Bradley Manning Support Network, released this statement today about WikiLeaks’ contribution towards the defence of the accused whistleblower. What WikiLeaks reveals about the changing map of global power Reuters Blogs (blog) For instance, the 2010 Pew Global Attitudes Survey revealed that in … Read more

A Wikileaks documentery: WikiRebels

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WikiRebels – The Documentary (1/4) Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhTfOL… From the description: “Exclusive rough-cut of first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it! From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange. Reporters Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist have traveled to key countries … Read more

“Bradley Manning speaks about his conditions- Cablegate roundup

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Wikileaks: Bradley Manning speaks about his conditions from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin At Firedoglake, David House writes a lengthy and detailed report from visits with Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has been in military detention for months for being the presumed source of Wikileaks’ most damning US government leaks. Manning’s lawyer and others have written … Read more

Wikileaks’ next target is Bank of America- Cablegate roundup

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Confirmed: Wikileaks’ next target is Bank of America from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Buried in that Times of London article you didn’t read because it was behind a paywall was confirmation by Julian Assange that Wikileaks will release a very large cache of documents about Bank of America, to be released in early 2011. … Read more

Cablegate global roundup continues. WikiLeaks Distributed Data Graphic etc…

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WikiLeaks Distributed Data Graphic from Mavi Boncuk by M.A.M 2010-12-04: Cablegate: Roundtable discussions 2010-12-04: New York Times T Magazine: Julian Assange: The Gift of Information 2010-12-03: Rep. Ron Paul defends WikiLeaks 2010-12-03: TIME: Cover story WikiLeaks founder Assange ought to be hiding from America from washingtonpost.com – Op-Ed Columns by Charles Krauthammer Let the world … Read more