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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

Cyberculture roundup: Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison

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Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison After more than three years already spent in confinement while awaiting trial, former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison today for what has been described as the largest ever leak of classified government documents. Manning, who is 25 years old, had been … Read more

“Partner of NSA leaks journalist held for 9 hours… a Journalism roundup

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Partner of NSA leaks journalist held for 9 hours The partner of the Guardian journalist who worked with Edward Snowden to expose US surveillance tactics was detained for almost nine hours August 6, 2013 filed handout picture released by the Brazilian Senate showing Brazil-based Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who was among the first to release … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Thousands of NSA Privacy Violations exposed with New Snowden Documents… Blogger’s suicide site…

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On Day of Suicide, Blogger Launches Site About His Life and Death Yahoo has taken down “Martin Manley: My Life and Death.” “After careful review, our team determined that this site violated our Terms of Service and we took it down,” a Yahoo spokesperson told Mashable in an emailed statement. New Snowden Documents Expose Thousands … Read more

“Israel’s Latest (Mis)Adventure in Digital Diplomacy…Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass…Cyberculture roundup…

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Covert Twitter Ops: Israel’s Latest (Mis)Adventure in Digital Diplomacy There’s a new front in the social media wars: Israeli university campuses.   Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters People hold masks with the face of Edward J. Snowden at a hearing in Brazil on the N.S.A.’s surveillance programs. Meet the … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: http://piratebrowser.com/ Pirate Bay’s 10th year gift… NSA by the numbers…HTTPS Hackable In 30 Seconds

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The Pirate Bay launched its own PirateBrowser last week. Here?s how it works The Pirate Bay celebrated 10 years of managing to keep itself online (as much to its own surprise, as anyone else?s) on Friday, and to mark the occasion, it released a special Web browser based on Firefox that includes a bundled Tor … Read more

“5 Nastiest Things the White House Has Said About Snowden…Surveillance and American Liberty… Americana roundup

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  The 5 Nastiest Things the White House Has Said About Snowden If there were any doubts as to how President Obama feels about Edward Snowden, he laid them all to rest in a Friday news conference, dismissing the NSA whistleblower as no patriot. Obama denies bad relationship with ‘bored kid’ Putin President Barack Obama … Read more

The Pirate Bay: 10 years old…NSA firing 90% of its sysadmins to eliminate potential Snowdens… A cyberculture roundup…

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The Pirate Bay Turns 10 Years Old: The History   During the summer of 2003 The Pirate Bay was founded by Swedish pro-culture organization Piratbyrån. Piratbyrån, which translates to Bureau of Piracy, was formed by political activists and hackers in the early 2000s, many of whom had already launched other web projects challenging political, moral … Read more

“Information authoritarians vs. ?information anarchists?” A Cyberculture roundup…

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Information authoritarians vs. ?information anarchists?: the silent (cyber) war that affects us all NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden finally leaves Moscow airport Hacking attack on Tor allegedly linked to SAIC and NSA The IP address linked to the hacking of Tor bundle has been traced back to that of Science Applications International Corp (a company investigated … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Pew Report: 72% of Online Adults in US are Social Networking Site Users; On MIT?s report on Aaron Swartz?s prosecution..

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  72% of Online Adults are Social Networking Site Users   The Pew Research Center‘s Internet & American Life Project has been studying online adults? social networking site use since 2005, and has seen substantial growth since then. Today, 72% of online adults use social networking sites. Although younger adults continue to be the most likely … Read more

Tor network gets a major hit… A cyberculture roundup…

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A technical explanation here. Feds bring down Tor-hosted child porn site using suspected vulnerability in Firefox browser The US government has successfully taken down one of the Internet?s largest child porn sites, following a program that cracked security on a service that enables anonymous Internet browsing and site hosting. Twitter Reveals Data About the U.S. Government … Read more

A map of closed US embassies and consulates due to Al-Qaeda threat.. An Americana roundup…

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************** The Troubling Takeaway from Snowden’s Leaks: America Is Drowning in Secrets With his slow, steady stream of leaked NSA documents, Edward Snowden is offering a glimpse into what President Obama’s pledge of transparent government might have looked like — had he chosen to deliver on it. Members of Congress denied access to basic details … Read more

NSA Surveillance “legally” continues…while UK government thinks of ridiculous anti-porn proposals….

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Morning Brief: House Defeats Effort to Rein In NSA Surveillance House Defeats Effort to Rein In NSA Surveillance Top news: The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly defeated a bill that would have restricted how the National Security Agency (NSA) gathers phone records on millions of Americans. The 217-to-205 vote represented a victory for … Read more

Ahmet Sabancı: PRISM: Nedir, Neden Önemli, Neler Olacak?

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PRISM: Nedir, Neden Önemli, Neler Olacak?   Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning ve Wikileaks ekibinden sonra son yılların en büyük ve önemli sızıntılarından birisini gerçekleştirdi. Aslında sızdırdığı belgeler yeni bir şeyi ortaya çıkartmadı. Herkesin tahmin ettiği ve üzerine komplolar ürettiği bir konuda gerçekten neler olup bittiğini bize kanıtlarla gösterdi. Bir anlamda efsanenin gerçek olduğunu gösterdi.   … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: “Technology to Protect Against Mass Surveillance…”Google experimenting with spy-resistant encrypted Google Drive

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A huge coalition of tech companies unites to petition the US government for more NSA transparency Silicon Valley tech giants have united against a common cause: seeking greater transparency from the US?s National Security Agency and openness when it comes to surveillance activities. House Judiciary Committee Rails Against Domestic Spying The House Judiciary Committee’s hearing … Read more