PressRelease here WikiLeaks releases a trove of U.S. diplomatic cables from 1978 Mashable! by Stan Schroeder WikiLeaks has released more than half a million U.S. diplomatic cables from 1978, the whistleblower website has announced. Despite NSA leaks, many Americans haven’t changed their privacy settings Mashable! by Louise Roug Contrary to the view that people have “nothing … Read more
Worst passwords (click to embiggen) Mark Burnett, whose work has been featured here before, has used lists of leaked passwords to compile a master list of the 10,000 worst passwords (with accompanying wordcloud, see above); an astonishing 91 percent of all passwords used appear in the top 1000. Here’s the top 100, with their relative frequency: NSA tracks … Read more
Freedom of the Press Foundation Launches SecureDrop, an Open-Source Submission Platform for Whistleblowers Freedom of the Press Foundation has taken charge of the DeadDrop project, an open-source whistleblower submission system originally coded by the late transparency advocate Aaron Swartz. In the coming months, the Foundation will also provide on-site installationand technical support to news organizations that wish to run the … Read more
Record Labels Threaten the Open Internet, isoHunt Tells Court from TorrentFreak by Ernesto In 2010 a conglomerate of record labels ? including the ?Big Four? of Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal ? went after BitTorrent site isoHunt. 25 Alleged Anons Arrested in International Crackdown from Wired Top Stories by Quinn Norton Police in four … Read more
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
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated “rms“,[1] is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[2] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software … Read more