How beholden are tech companies to protect their users’ rights? Are they obligated to protect human rights, democracy, Read More
Tech firms: prioritizing human rights or bottom line?
WikiLeaks is back in the news with a project that’s more than eight times the size of Cablegate. Read More
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Assange loses fight against extradition to Sweden
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief, has lost his battle against extradition and must return to Sweden to face Read More
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Assange brands Facebook as a “spy machine”
Hey, remember Julian Assange? Almost half a year ago, the WikiLeaks founder had captivated news outlets and social Read More
Prolexic Technologies, a cyber defense solutions provider, on Monday announced the close of a $13.9 million round of Read More
Amazon released a statement reporting the third-generation Kindle is the best-selling product in Amazon’s history. It beat the Read More
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What you need to know – Tuesday 12/21/2010
Berlin Germany-based 6Wunderkinder raised $660,000 in the company’s second round of funding. The round was funded by Gründerfonds, Read More
WikiLeaks took another hit recently when it lost the support of the domain name system provider that had Read More
I’m flying home from beautiful Paris, with its exquisite architecture, glorious cuisine, amazing shopping, its plethora of art Read More
Following the failed attempt to hit Amazon with a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack Thursday, the hacker group that Read More
The organized cyber attacks on Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal this week, along the looming threat of an attack Read More
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Openleaks: A more democratic WikiLeaks
Julian Assange (left), founder of WikiLeaks, and former associate Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Based only on conversations I’ve shared with Read More
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4Chan-supported Anonymous takes down PayPal
In retaliation for suspending payments made to whistleblower WikiLeaks’ account, Operation Payback directed three successive distributed denial of Read More
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Anonymous compromises MasterCard accounts?
[Updated at 15:15 PST Dec 8: Operation Payback’s Twitter account has been deleted.] Both of the main websites Read More
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WikiLeaks stays alive despite Assange arrest
Founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks Julian Assange, after a voluntary meeting with police, has been refused bail by Read More