Four LulzSec hackers have been jailed for up to 32 months each by a UK court
Four members of the notorious LulzSec hacker group have been sentenced in London today following a number of high-profile hacks and DDoS attacks affecting companies such as Sony Pictures, PBS and Fox.com in 2011 and 2012.
Lulzsec’s Topiary: The Internet is a world devoid of empathy
For the first time, Lulzsec hacker Jake Davis, better known as “Topiary,” has agreed to a public interview. Speaking about his experience with the Anonymous off-shoot and its two month-long hacking spree, Topiary described the Internet as “a world devoid of empathy.”
LulzSec Hackers Sentenced to Prison
Four members of the infamous hacking group LulzSec, which carried out a series of high-profile attacks in May and June of 2011, were sentenced to prison on Thursday in London. Two years after what the group dubbed the “50 days of lulz,” the four hackers received a collective sentence of seven years in prison
2013-05-14 Statement of Lisa L Williams on Bradley Manning
“News reports yesterday indicated that Bradley Manning, widely known to be gay, had been selected to be one of the Grand Marshals of the annual San Francisco gay pride parade, named by the LGBT Pride Celebration Committee”, wrote Glenn Greenwald. “When the predictable backlash instantly ensued, the president of the Board of SF Pride, Lisa L Williams, quickly capitulated, issuing a cowardly, imperious statement that has to be read to be believed.
Pirate Bay Co-Founder to Run For European Parliament
Ever since the guilty verdict in the Pirate Bay case was made final last year, Peter Sunde has been fighting his looming incarceration. However, this hasn’t stopped him from looking ahead.
The Rise and Fall of Anonymous Bitcoins
U.S. News & World Report
It’s the digital currency that claims to be completely anonymous, non-inflationary and more secure than Fort Knox. Its largest backer, Bitcoin Foundation, says the virtual money “cannot be manipulated by any government, bank, organization or individua
The Rise and Fall of Anonymous Bitcoins
New York Daily News
Is there a bitcoin in your future? It’s the digital currency that claims to be completely anonymous, non-inflationary and more secure than Fort Knox. Its largest backer, Bitcoin Foundation, says the virtual money “cannot be manipulated by any
The New Yorker takes a page from WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks may have launched as a venue for publishing sensitive leaked information, but it eventually began working more closely with established media outlets to showcase its scoops.
Disappointing Unsealing Decision in Aaron Swartz Case
The public lost another battle in the U.S. v. Aaron Swartz case, this one over transparency. On May 13, 2013, the U.S. District Court judge handling the prosecution sided with the government, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR and refused to make public any information in the case that any of these three entities wished to keep under seal. The ruling effectively grants the Department of Justice, MIT and JSTOR a veto over what the public gets to know about the investigation.
The 5 Coolest Things From the Google I/O Keynote
As expected, there was nothing revolutionary about the boatload of upgrades introduced at today?s Google I/O conference, but that doesn?t mean there wasn?t a whole lot of very cool stuff announced.
New Yorker launches new leak submission system, written by Aaron Swartz
The New Yorker today launched ‘Strongbox,’ a whistleblower submission system designed to allow anonymous leakers to digitally transmit important information to journalists.
Realtime map of anonymous edits to Wikipedia
Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi’s “Wikipedia Recent Changes Map” plots anonymous edits to Wikipedia on a world-map in realtime, based on the location of the user (only anonymous users are identified by IP address, so they’re the only ones whose locations can be estimated). It’s a hypnotic view into Wikipedia’s casual users and vandals, as well as unobservant users like (I often forget that I’m logged out until after my edit, and have to go back and add an attribution).
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