Bugged Bears, Spy Irons, and the Pope: Global Spying Went Nuts Today The Pope is being targeted by U.S. eavesdroppers. Julian Assange is sending packageswith video cameras and GPS trackers. The Russians are using teddy bears to snoop on G-20 officials. Spy chips are popping up in electric irons. Oh, and the NSA, it turns out, has broken into Google and Yahoo’s datacenters. … Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK6DDC4CV0s For the first time ever, audiences get a behind-the-scenes insight into the world’s first truly global media event: “Operation Cablerun” : the 2011 operation during which WikiLeaks ran hundreds of thousands of secret US government cables to media outlets around the world. In Mediastan, an undercover team of journalists drives across the central … Read more
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, has issued three new studies that may be of interest: Is there still a place for public service television? Effects of the changing economics of broadcasting, edited by Robert G. Picard and Paolo Siciliani https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/Publications/Working_Papers/Is_There_Still_a_Place_for_Public_Service_Television.pdf Women and journalism, Suzanne Franks https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/publications/risj-challenges/women-and-journalism.html Climate change and … Read more
European Commission accepts Penguin?s proposals to scrap Apple ebook agency agreements The European Commission has accepted book publisher Penguin?s proposals to scrap all of its existing ebook agency agreements ? including its deal with Apple, most importantly ? and refrain from adopting any similar partnerships for the next five years. Journalists at Bradley Manning … Read more
NSA leaks: US bugged EU offices & networks in DC An article in Der Speigel expands on the descriptions we’ve had of the Snowden/NSA leaks, and claims that the US planted bugs in the EU’s Washington offices and took over their internal computer network, intercepting its traffic. Fresh intelligence row over US ‘bugging’ … Read more
Morning Brief: Diplomatic Row Over Snowden Continues as Putin Refuses Extradition Diplomatic Row Over Snowden Continues as Putin Refuses Extradition White House urges Russia to expel Snowden without delay The White House urged Russia to expel former government contractor Edward Snowden ‘without delay,’ as Kremlin opted out handing him over to the U.S. … Read more
Snowden’s passport revoked A “US Government official” has told the Associated Press‘s Matthew V. Lee that the State Department has revoked NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s passport. Snowden’s Destination Ranks 119th in Global Press Freedom Edward Snowden’s exact status is unclear, but his final destination is believed to be Ecuador. Where in the World … Read more
Snowden seeks asylum in Ecuador Ecuador’s foreign ministry has confirmed that Edward Snowden has officially applied for asylum in Ecuador. He left Hong Kong this morning, landed in Moscow, and is said to be heading for Cuba next. MAIN FOCUS: Informer Snowden on the run | 24/06/2013 Edward Snowden, the whistleblower wanted by the US, … Read more
Wikileaks Documentary Attacks Assange, Excuses Manning Julian Assange is a villain, Bradley Manning is a hero: That is the message of We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, a new documentary now showing in theaters nationwide. REPORT: Google Battling Facebook For Waze Facebook?s talks to potentially acquire satellite navigation startup Waze may have hit a … Read more
Eric Schmidt: Money is the only reason Julian Assange redacted WikiLeaks files from FP Passport by John Hudson Back in 2011, Google executive Eric Schmidt conducted a secret interview with Julian Assange while the WikiLeaks founder was under house arrest in Britain. The nature of the interview has not been revealed until now, a week … Read more
Turkish court recognizes insult over Twitter as criminal offense from Hurriyet Daily News An Istanbul court has judged a Twitter user?s insult toward a Turkish model to be a criminal offense. Russia’s #1 Netizen Heads to Trial from Global Voices Online by Kevin Rothrock Pussy Riot, eat your heart out. Later this week, on … Read more
CISPA is back: worst Internet law since SOPA needs you to fight it! from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Join Namecheap and EFF in Stopping CISPA from EFF.org Updates by Adi Kamdar Thoughts on Chinese Hacking and America’s Response from Stanford Center for Internet and Society by Richard Forno The release of Mandiant’s report … Read more
Cypherpunks: a conversation that both articulates and challenges the case for Internet freedom by Cory Doctorow Download Walter Kaufmann?s Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre & Modern Thought (1960) from Open Culture by Dan Colman Walter Kaufmann spent 33 years (1947-1980) teaching philosophy at Princeton. And more than anyone else, Kaufmann introduced Nietzsche?s philosophy to the … Read more
This video was made in an attempt to try an explain some of the specifics relating to the accusations against Julian Assange. It was also made in the hope of shedding some light on the circumstances that have led to the current diplomatic standoff involving the Wikileaks founder.
New research: Most top torrents are monitored, your IP address can be logged within three hours from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski If you?ve downloaded a popular torrent in the last three years, you may have had your IP address logged and your activities monitored, according to new research. Computer scientists from the University … Read more