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Court Rules Government Can Get Your Online Personal Data Without Warrant
A new legal precedent was set yesterday with the decision by a U.S. District Court Judge that the government can, in fact, collect information about you through your internet use without a warrant.
The ruling by Judge Liam …
WikiLeaks Releases 250,000+ Searchable Embassy Cables
“Given that the full database file is downloadable from hundreds of sites there is only one internally rational action.”
That’s one of the updates from WikiLeaks’ Twitter account this week, alluding to the organization’s recent spat with U.K. newspaper the Guardian, which published a WikiLeaks-related book back in February that …
WikiLeaks, ‘The Guardian’ Trade Barbs over Unredacted Cables
FOLLOW-UP: WikiLeaks has published 250,000+ U.S. Embassy cables to a searchable online database…
As the story goes, some 100,000 or more secret U.S. diplomatic cables found their way onto the internet recently—the cables had been rounded up by none other than WikiLeaks, the non-profit, secret-leaking organization with the simple
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Piles of Pivotal WikiLeaks Data May Have Been Obliterated
Ever have one of those days, where you accidentally expunge half your hard drive’s contents, then realize, shattered, that you don’t have a backup? Me too, and we can add WikiLeaks—the nonprofit private industry and state secret bean-spiller—to the brotherhood of the crushed and traumatized.
Or at least add in part. It depends …
Twitter Promises to ‘Protect the Safety of Any Person,’ but Will It Hand Over Taliban Info?
In January, Wired noted that “Twitter beta-tested a spine.”
During the height of the WikiLeaks bruhaha, the U.S. government slapped the company with a court order, demanding user information of a few of the key WikiLeaks conspirators, including Pfc. Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. Instead of coughing up the information (mainly …
The Wall Street Journal’s Version of Wikileaks is Now Open For Secrets
The Wall Street Journal appears to be the first major news outlet to get their own Wikileaks-style portal up and running. They’re calling it The SafeHouse, a haven where tippers can submit various forms of documentation anonymously.
The site states they’re looking for “newsworthy contracts, correspondence, emails, financial records or …
Julian Assange Calls Facebook an ‘Appalling Spy Machine’
Let the privacy blowups commence again. What does WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange think of Facebook? He interviewed with Russia Today, saying that Mark Zuckerberg’s creation is “the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented.”
Assange believes that it is “…the world’s most comprehensive database about people, their …
WikiLeaks Hactivists Released on Bail. Next Target: The UK Government?
The five suspects linked to the Anonymous Hactivist group have been released on bail Friday, reports The Guardian. The five males were arrested by London Metropolitan Police Thursday in connection with online DDoS attacks in support of WikiLeaks last December. Meanwhile, the FBI also issued 40 search warrants across the U.S. in their …
Will The New York Times Set Up Its Own WikiLeaks Portal?
What if it was easier to leak documents to news organizations? The New York Times is pondering that very question and considering how worthwhile it would be to create an online portal allowing leakers to cut out controversial middlemen like Wikileaks’ Julian Assange, allowing the paper to grab some more glory for itself in the …
4Chan Taken Down By Hackers For 24 Hours
You may not have noticed, but the landscape of the internet underwent a surprising – and potentially dangerous – change yesterday with the news that 4Chan had been temporarily taken down by hackers.
The site was slow-to-impossible to load for around 24 hours, with the DDoS seemingly confirmed via 4Chan’s twitter yesterday
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Bank Of America Tries To Avoid Internet Backlash By Buying Abusive Domains
This is a definition of pro-active that I’ve never seen before: In preparation for being the subject of a future round of WikiLeaks, Bank of America has been buying up domain names that insult its CEO, Brian Moynihan. So far, URLs registered include BrianMoynihanBlows.com, BrianMoynihanSucks.com, BrianTMoynihanBlows.com, and …