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11 Aug 2011

State Department Spent $1.2 Billion On An Asset Monitoring System… That Ignores All Non-Windows Equipment

We just wrote about a GAO report showing how the Defense Department is somewhat incompetent at dealing with online threats. Of course, it's not clear that anyone else in the government is any better. The GAO is back with yet another report, dinging the State Department for its dreadful computer security monitoring program. In this case, it's talking about threats to the State Department's network, rather than to third parties. And while the State Department spent a whopping $1.2 billion of taxpayer money on a fancy computer system, called iPost, to monitor everything, it turns out that it only works on Windows machines:
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28 Jun 2011

The End Of LulzSec Is Not The End Of Hactivism

Lots of news over the weekend concerning the surprise announcement that LulzSec -- the group of "hactivists-for-the-lulz" who were able to generate so much attention -- had announced plans to disband just a day or so after promising many more hacks.
Lots of news over the weekend concerning the surprise announcement that LulzSec -- the group of...
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7 May 2011

WSJ Launches Wikileaks Competitor… But Says It Can Reveal Your Info To Law Enforcement

With all the focus on Wikileaks recently, and the question of whether it is or is not "press" (not that it actually matters), one point that I've heard more than a few people raise is: why didn't any of the big news organizations create Wikileaks?
With all the focus on Wikileaks recently, and the question of whether it is or is not "press" (not that it actually...
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5 May 2011

Hillary Clinton: We Want Journalism Innovation That Makes Info Easier To Share… Unless It’s Wikileaks

Jeff Sonderman points us to the odd statement put out by Hilary Clinton and the State Department for World Press Freedom Day, in which she praises the internet for making info easier to share and for holding governments accountable:
Jeff Sonderman points us to the odd statement put out by Hilary Clinton and the State Department for World Press Freedom...
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12 Apr 2011

Even Mainstream Reporters Now Mocking US Bogus ‘Transparency’ On Human Rights Issues Concerning Bradley Manning

A number of folks have picked up on the near total lack of self-recognition by the US federal government in response to its annual release of a State Department report condemning China's human rights record.
A number of folks have picked up on the near total lack of self-recognition by the US federal government in response to...
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3 Mar 2011

Bradley Manning Hit With New Charges; Could Face Death Penalty

After being unable to convince Bradley Manning to lie about his "relationship" with Julian Assange, the government has decided to up the pressure on Manning by filing another 22 charges against him, including putting him at risk of facing the death penalty -- though, they insist that they will not ask for the death penalty
After being unable to convince Bradley Manning to lie about his "relationship" with Julian Assange, the government has...
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4 Feb 2011

Leaked State Department Cables Confirm That ACTA Was Designed To Pressure Developing Nations

The idea is to first do all of this with those "like-minded" (i.e., protectionist) countries, and then use the agreement to try to pressure those developing nations and other nations concerned about the expansive problems of intellectual property law into "joining." In other words, stack the deck first with those who benefit most, and then use international pressure to force the agreement on those who aren't comfortable with the end result of such laws.
The idea is to first do all of this with those "like-minded" (i.e., protectionist) countries, and then use the agreement...
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27 Jan 2011

The Background Story Of The NY Times’ Relationship With Julian Assange

If you haven't yet, set aside some time to read the NY Times' executive editor Bill Keller's account of the paper's association with Julian Assange. It gives some interesting (and not too surprising) background details about the relationship, Assange himself, and Keller's views on the overall impact of Wikileaks.
If you haven't yet, set aside some time to read the NY Times' executive editor Bill Keller's account of the paper's...
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21 Jan 2011

Wikia Owned Wikileaks.com Domain; Assange Ignored Attempts To Hand It Over

I had seen the BBC article from a week or so ago about Jimmy Wales talking about the complexity of Wikipedia and how it needs to improve, but hadn't read all the way to the end where there was a rather interesting tidbit. Copycense however alerted us to this little bit of trivia at the end about how Wikipedia's sorta sister company Wikia owns some Wikileaks domain names... including Wikileaks.com:
I had seen the BBC article from a week or so ago about Jimmy Wales talking about the complexity of Wikipedia and how it...
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15 Jan 2011

Rep. Darrell Issa — Who Says Investigating Wikileaks Is A Priority — Sets Up His Own Whistleblower Site

There seems to be a bit of confusion among the new leadership in the House concerning just what Wikileaks does. Just over a week ago or so, we noted that Rep. Darrell Issa, who is heading the "oversight committee" had declared that investigating Wikileaks was a major priority for Congress, because if the US government didn't attack back at Wikileaks, the world would "laugh" at how the US had become a "paper tiger."
There seems to be a bit of confusion among the new leadership in the House concerning just what Wikileaks does. Just...
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14 Jan 2011

So Who Else Did The Government Demand Info From In The Wikileaks Investigation

Singel (and some of our own commenters) also pointed out that Twitter was following in the footsteps of Nicholas Merrill, the head of Calyx Internet Access. Merrill, famously, fought a gag order on a National Security Letter he received from the FBI.
Singel (and some of our own commenters) also pointed out that Twitter was following in the footsteps of Nicholas...
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13 Jan 2011

Customs’ Hamfisted Attempts To Intimidate Wikileaks Volunteers

Computer security expert (and US citizen) Jacob Appelbaum, who is well known for his work on Tor, had been having some issues lately concerning his involvement as a volunteer with Wikileaks. He was among those who had their info requested by the Feds via Twitter.
Computer security expert (and US citizen) Jacob Appelbaum, who is well known for his work on Tor, had been having some...
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12 Jan 2011

Debunking The Myth That Wikileaks Cable Leaks Haven’t Been Important

Whatever you might think of Wikileaks -- and it's difficult to deny that it is a severely flawed operation in many ways -- one of the sillier critiques of the recent release of secure State Department cables is the claim that these cables didn't really reveal anything important.
Whatever you might think of Wikileaks -- and it's difficult to deny that it is a severely flawed operation in many ways...
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8 Jan 2011

Why Senator Lieberman’s Censorship Law Is Unconstitutional And A Danger To Free Speech

Senator Joe Lieberman has been the harshest critic of the Wikileaks cable leak, and has been very active in putting pressure on US companies to either block or cut ties with Wikileaks. Even if you support those actions and hate Wikileaks,
Senator Joe Lieberman has been the harshest critic of the Wikileaks cable leak, and has been very active in putting...
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7 Jan 2011

Feds Subpoena Twitter For Info On Wikileaks-Supporting Icelandic Politician

In the feds continued efforts to find something (anything!) to charge Wikileaks with, its latest fishing expedition apparently involves issuing a subpoena to Twitter asking for info on the account of Birgitta Jonsdottir, a Member of Iceland's Parliament, who had been instrumental in helping Wikileaks establish a strong free speech legal structure in Iceland.
In the feds continued efforts to find something (anything!) to charge Wikileaks with, its latest fishing expedition...
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4 Jan 2011

New Congressional Leadership Prioritizes Wikileaks Investigation

We had high hopes after a recent Congressional hearing about Wikileaks, which appeared to focus more on the problem of overly secretive government rather than just blaming Wikileaks, that perhaps the US wouldn't go too far in its overreaction to the site.
We had high hopes after a recent Congressional hearing about Wikileaks, which appeared to focus more on the problem of...
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3 Jan 2011

Wikileaks Reveals That The US Won’t Comply With Treaty Obligations Concerning Investigations Into CIA Rendition

Once again, this is hardly a surprise, but it's increasingly being confirmed by the various State Department cable leaks that the US Justice Department is failing to comply with its treaty obligations with other countries, in their investigations into US (mainly CIA) "rendition" operations, where they take people captured elsewhere and find some place to torture them.
Once again, this is hardly a surprise, but it's increasingly being confirmed by the various State Department cable leaks...
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31 Dec 2010

Why Does The Myth Persist That Wikileaks Is Indiscriminately Leaking Thousands Of Documents

A few weeks ago, we called out the fact that many in the press continued to falsely report that Wikileaks had indiscriminately released all 250,000+ State Department cables that it had in its possession. In fact, this was the key claim that many have used to condemn Wikileaks and to suggest that it's neither a journalistic entity nor a whistleblowing entity.
A few weeks ago, we called out the fact that many in the press continued to falsely report that Wikileaks had...
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30 Dec 2010

Just Weeks After Cutting Off Wikileaks, Amazon Brags About How US Federal Gov’t Is One Of Its Biggest AWS Customers

While Senator Joe Lieberman took credit for pressuring Amazon to stop hosting Wikileaks content via its Amazon Web Services infrastructure, Amazon insisted that government pressure had nothing to do with it. Still, it seems rather odd that just weeks after booting Wikileaks, Amazon sent out a press release bragging about how the US federal government is one of its biggest customers (found via Slashdot).
While Senator Joe Lieberman took credit for pressuring Amazon to stop hosting Wikileaks content via its Amazon Web...
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28 Dec 2010

Once Again, More State Dept. Cables Show Swedish Copyright Enforcement At The Behest Of US

There's absolutely nothing surprising at all about the following, but Christian Engstrom (one of the two European Parliament Members from The Pirate Party*) highlights yet another leaked State Department cable that shows that many of the copyright enforcement efforts of the Swedish government were in response to a six point checklist given to the Swedish government by the US Embassy
There's absolutely nothing surprising at all about the following, but Christian Engstrom (one of the two European...
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28 Dec 2010

NY Times Finally Speaks Out Against Financial Firms Blocking Wikileaks

One of the more annoying things about watching the major news publications discussing the Wikileaks controversy is how infrequently they seem to realize that many of the attacks they themselves have been directing (or redirecting) at Wikileaks could come back to haunt them as well, as many could apply to them when they do things such as publish information about leaked documents.
One of the more annoying things about watching the major news publications discussing the Wikileaks controversy is how...
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28 Dec 2010

Wikileaks, Intermediary Chokepoints And The Dissent Tax

What the Wikileaks furor shows us is that a dissent tax is emerging on the Internet. As a dissident content provider, you might have to fight your DNS provider. You might need to fund large-scale hosting resources while others can use similar capacity on commercial servers for a few hundred dollars a year. Fund-raising infrastructure that is open to pretty much everyone else, including the KKK, may not be available. This does not mean that Wikileaks cannot get hosted, as it is already well-known and big, but what about smaller, less-famous, less established, less well-off efforts? Will they even get off the ground?
What the Wikileaks furor shows us is that a dissent tax is emerging on the Internet. As a dissident content provider,...
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23 Dec 2010

Now Random Webhosts Are Demanding Wikileaks Mirrors Be Taken Down Over Possibility Of DDoS

With all the attempts by corporations to distance themselves from Wikileaks -- often claiming dubious legal issues or terms of use violations that don't seem to really exist -- the EFF is pointing out that one of the (many, many) Wikileaks mirror sites was told by his hosting company he had to remove it or he'd lose his account. The reasoning was quite bizarre. The host claimed that its upstream provider was worried about potential DDoS attacks
With all the attempts by corporations to distance themselves from Wikileaks -- often claiming dubious legal issues or...
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23 Dec 2010

JFK On Secrecy And Censorship

Glyn Moody points us to a blog post that has a video/audio clip of a John F. Kennedy speech to the press about secrecy and censorship, which is getting some attention for the contrast to the way our government is responding to the Wikileaks controversy.
Glyn Moody points us to a blog post that has a video/audio clip of a John F. Kennedy speech to the press about secrecy...
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22 Dec 2010

So WikiLeaks Is Evil For Releasing Documents… But DynCorp Gets A Pass For Pimping Young Boys To Afghan Cops

One refrain we keep hearing against Wikileaks is that the cable releases aren't really "whistleblowing," because they're not really revealing anything. However, it seems like each day there's another big revelation of rather horrible things being done (and covered up) by the US government
One refrain we keep hearing against Wikileaks is that the cable releases aren't really "whistleblowing," because they're...
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22 Dec 2010

Why Are US Publications Downplaying The Significance Of Some Of Wikileaks’ Leaks

We still can't quite figure out why the story of US contractors in Afghanistan pimping little boys to law enforcement officials doesn't seem to get nearly the sort of attention in the press that Wikileaks itself gets, even though Wikileaks is what revealed the actions by Dyncorp.
We still can't quite figure out why the story of US contractors in Afghanistan pimping little boys to law enforcement...
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20 Dec 2010

Will The Journalists Who Outed CIA’s Pakistan Chief Be Treated Like Julian Assange

Richard Kulawiec pointed us to the news that got a lot of attention last week concerning how the CIA had recalled its chief in Pakistan back to the US after his name was outed in a lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by a guy who blames the CIA for his relatives being killed in a drone attack. Apparently, two Pakistani journalists gave him the name of the CIA chief, and the guy included it in his lawsuit, leading to the recall. While the American press is not reporting the guy's name, it's widely available in foreign coverage.
Richard Kulawiec pointed us to the news that got a lot of attention last week concerning how the CIA had recalled its...
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17 Dec 2010

So After Torturing Bradley Manning For Months, US Officials Offer Him A Deal If He Says Assange ‘Conspired’ With Him

This is hardly a surprise, but after locking up Bradley Manning in solitary confinement for seven months -- a condition that much of the world has deemed to be torture -- and looking for ways to use a computer hacking law to charge Julian Assange, rumors are that officials have offered Bradley Manning a plea deal, in which he would claim that Assange "conspired" with him to get and leak the documents.
This is hardly a surprise, but after locking up Bradley Manning in solitary confinement for seven months -- a condition...
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17 Dec 2010

How Wikileaks and Operation Payback Have Exposed Infrastructure That Should Be Decentralized, But Isn’t

The classic line about how "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it," is certainly being proven true yet again these days, but there is an interesting corollary that might be worth considering in this as well: which is that sometimes these attempts at censorship expose the need for new routes, and those routes are quickly created.
The classic line about how "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it," is certainly being...
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17 Dec 2010

Congressional Hearing On Wikileaks Surprisingly Focuses More On Gov’t Overly Secretive Actions

Earlier today, Congress held hearings about Wikileaks and, given how the government has been reacting so far, I fully expected pure grandstanding about how "evil" Wikileaks is and how Julian Assange must be brought to justice.
Earlier today, Congress held hearings about Wikileaks and, given how the government has been reacting so far, I fully...
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17 Dec 2010

Interesting Timing Senate Passes Federal Whistleblower Protection Bill

We were just highlighting how the government is terrible at protecting whistleblowers -- with particular attention to the horrific treatment of Bradley Manning. As all of this is going on, it's worth pointing out that the Senate (apparently without much sense of irony) has passed a "Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act," which would seek to grant greater protections to government employees who blow the whistle on government wrongdoing.
We were just highlighting how the government is terrible at protecting whistleblowers -- with particular attention to...
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15 Dec 2010

Congressional Research Service Analysts Complaining About Blocked Access To Wikileaks

With the Library of Congress blocking access to Wikileaks over some misguided notion of what its legal responsibilities are, Copycense points us to a report about how librarians across the nation are now arguing over whether or not this was the right move, with many feeling that it was decidedly a bad move.
With the Library of Congress blocking access to Wikileaks over some misguided notion of what its legal responsibilities...
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15 Dec 2010

Battling Wikileaks And The Art Of War

Anyone who has studied tactics, for battle or otherwise, knows Sun Tzu's legendary work, The Art Of War. Or at least they should. In reviewing what the first chapter of that work teaches about the five factors a battling faction must consider when endeavoring to battle, you have to scratch your head and wonder if the United States government might need a refresher course. Take a look at some excerpts from this summary of the Giles translation:
Anyone who has studied tactics, for battle or otherwise, knows Sun Tzu's legendary work, The Art Of War. Or at least...
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15 Dec 2010

Air Force In Super Denial Mode Blocks Access To News Sites Covering Wikileaks

And we thought the Library of Congress was in denial mode for blocking access to Wikileaks. It appears the Air Force has gone a step further into denial, as it's now blocking access to over 25 sites, including major news publications covering Wikileaks, such as the NY Times and The Guardian. Apparently, anyone on an Air Force computer who goes to the NY Times is being told: "ACCESS DENIED. Internet Usage is Logged & Monitored," Along with a notice warning people that anyone accessing an "unauthorized" site may be punished. Apparently none of the other branches of the military have the same thing in place, though we've heard from others in the military that Defense Department computers are blocking websites with "Wikileaks" in the title.
And we thought the Library of Congress was in denial mode for blocking access to Wikileaks. It appears the Air Force has...
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15 Dec 2010

Columbia Journalism School Staff Warns Obama That Prosecuting Wikileaks Will ‘Set A Dangerous Precedent’

While it's been unfortunate watching the traditional press attack Wikileaks for doing the job it refused to do itself, it's nice to see the staff of Columbia's journalism school (still considered one of the top journalism schools) come out and warn the Obama administration that prosecuting Wikileaks will set a dangerous precedent for freedom of the press, even for those who disagree with Wikileaks' methods:
While it's been unfortunate watching the traditional press attack Wikileaks for doing the job it refused to do itself,...
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15 Dec 2010

US Is Apparently Torturing Bradley Manning, Despite No Trial And No Conviction

While there's been a ton of attention paid to Julian Assange's arrest and situation, much less attention has been paid to Bradley Manning, the Army Private who has been accused of being the source of many of Wikileaks' more recent leaks concerning the US government and military. It seemed like a reasonable question to ask, upon his arrest, whether or not he was simply whistleblowing or breaking the law. Certainly this is a question that is open for debate. What is pretty clear is that his intentions were absolutely to be a whistleblower.
While there's been a ton of attention paid to Julian Assange's arrest and situation, much less attention has been paid...
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14 Dec 2010

Is The US Response To Wikileaks Really About Overhyping Online Threats To Pass New Laws

Okay, this post is going to take the extreme cynical view, which I don't believe is true, but since it's being suggested, we might as well flesh it out. In my post about how the US government's response to Wikileaks has caused more harm than anything actually in the leaks so far, one of the commenters pointed to a Larry Lessig talk from a few years back, where he mentioned a conversation with Richard Clarke -- the former anti-terrorism government official, who, more recently, has been selling his book on "Cyberwar" -- where he said that the US government has had an "iPatriot Act" sitting in a drawer, ready to go at a moment's notice whenever there was "an i-9/11 event."
Okay, this post is going to take the extreme cynical view, which I don't believe is true, but since it's being...
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13 Dec 2010

Is The CIA Hosting A Wikileaks Mirror

Whatis42? points us to an interesting post on Reddit, which is initially just highlighting a Google heatmap showing the locations from which people are searching for the term "wikileaks." Not surprisingly, the hottest spot on the heatmap is the Northern Virginia, Washington DC area. Shocking, I know.
Whatis42? points us to an interesting post on Reddit, which is initially just highlighting a Google heatmap showing the...
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10 Dec 2010

New Competition For Wikileaks Shows Up — Say Hello To OpenLeaks

Like many folks, I'm somewhat conflicted about Wikileaks as an organization. It's been clear for quite some time that it has some organizational issues, to put it mildly. However, as we've pointed out the concept behind Wikileaks is inevitable, and we fully expected that even if Wikileaks itself went away, others would quickly step up to take its place. Last month, we noted that some former Wikileakers (who were not at all happy with Assange's leadership) were planning a new competitor.
Like many folks, I'm somewhat conflicted about Wikileaks as an organization. It's been clear for quite some time that it...
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10 Dec 2010

Lieberman Praises Companies Helping Him Try To Censor Wikileaks

This should hardly comes as a surprise, but Senator Joe Lieberman has apparently put out a statement, along with Senator Sue Collins, praising companies for following through on their political pressure to try to censor Wikileaks, calling them "good corporate citizens," and saying that people should support those companies for their willingness to bow down to government pressure. Yeah, okay. Even the press reporting on this seem to think Lieberman is simply making stuff up. Witness this paragraph from Wired:
This should hardly comes as a surprise, but Senator Joe Lieberman has apparently put out a statement, along with Senator...
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9 Dec 2010

What Would Happen If Wikileaks Got Its Own Top Level Domain?

With all the talk about how the whole Wikileaks/domain name seizures issue is about a centralized vs. decentralized internet and even talk of a more decentralized DNS system, IP Watch raises an interesting question. With ICANN's plans to allow just about any TLD, what would happen if Wikileaks were to apply for its very own TLD?
With all the talk about how the whole Wikileaks/domain name seizures issue is about a centralized vs. decentralized...
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9 Dec 2010

Wikileaks Payment Company Plans To Sue Visa and Mastercard Over Cutoff

With Visa and Mastercard refusing to take payments for Wikileaks, the company that was providing payment services to Wikileaks, Datacell, has announced plans to sue both credit card companies to try to get them to go back to accepting payments.
With Visa and Mastercard refusing to take payments for Wikileaks, the company that was providing payment services to...
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9 Dec 2010

If Assange Were In China, US Politicians Would Be Cheering Him On

We've pointed out the general hypocrisy of US politicians calling for an end to internet censorship, while threatening Wikileaks at the same time. If you want to see some real irony, check out the fact that Senator Joe Lieberman, who has been the loudest voice in pushing for censorship of Wikileaks and of others in the press, just so happens to be a member of the "Global Internet Freedom Caucus." Yeah, except here in the US.
We've pointed out the general hypocrisy of US politicians calling for an end to internet censorship, while threatening...
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9 Dec 2010

Is Operation Payback A Crime… Or Just The Modern Equivalent Of A Sit In?

With the news coming out that Dutch officials have supposedly arrested someone involved in "Operation Payback," the Anonymous-driven DDoSing of certain websites (first those in favor of stronger copyright, and now those working against Wikileaks), Evgeny Morozov raises an interesting question: is this just the modern digital equivalent of staging a sit-in?
With the news coming out that Dutch officials have supposedly arrested someone involved in "Operation Payback," the...
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9 Dec 2010

Amazon Won’t Host Wikileaks… But Will Sell The Leaked Cables For Your Kindle?

This is making the rounds on Twitter, but cc was the first to submit it here. When Amazon kicked Wikileaks off of their S3 hosting service, we noted how it had (just weeks earlier) tried to defend a pro-pedophilia book by stating:
This is making the rounds on Twitter, but cc was the first to submit it here. When Amazon kicked Wikileaks off of their...
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9 Dec 2010

Operation Payback And Wikileaks Show The Battle Lines Are About Distributed and Open vs. Centralized and Closed

Back in October, I wrote a thought-piece on how "the revolution will be distributed," comparing Wikileaks to Anonymous' "Operation Payback" (whose tactics I disagree with). I noted that the two were very different, and were focused on very different issues, but that both were essentially about distributed and open systems taking on systems that were centralized and closed -- and that the folks in those centralized and closed systems didn't seem to understand this. Thus, all of their reactions did little to fix the challenges they were facing.
Back in October, I wrote a thought-piece on how "the revolution will be distributed," comparing Wikileaks to Anonymous'...
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