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Radical Pirate Party Ahead in The Polls Days Before Icelandic Election
Nov 3, 2016As Iceland prepares to go to the polls for its Parliamentary elections on Saturday, a radical pirate party, made up of hackers and activists, is ahead in the polls. The country's once-fringe Pirate Party is led by a former WikiLeaks ...
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Was Apple CEO Tim Cook Really Considered as Hillary's Running Mate?
Oct 25, 2016The latest release of emails obtained by Wikileaks shows Hillary Clinton’s campaign had considered a couple of tech luminaries as potential vice presidential candidates. Apple CEO Tim Cook as well as Microsoft’s Bill and ...
Tags: Apple, rough food
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Edward Snowden Has Finally Left The Transit Area of The Moscow Airport
Aug 5, 2013National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has finally left the transit area of the Moscow airport, after Russia granted him temporary asylum, his lawyer told The Wall Street Journal. Wikileaks, the whistleblowing website that has ...
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Edward Snowden Has Formally Applied for Political Asylum in Russia
Jul 1, 2013Fugitive document leaker Edward Snowden has formally applied for political asylum in Russia after spending eight days in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. The Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed Russian immigration ...
Tags: NSA, Edward Snowden, Russia
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Google Handed Wikileaks Volunteers' Gmail Accounts to NSA
Jun 27, 2013Earlier this year, I wrote about how I considered the ICO's meagre £250,000 fine handed out to Sony for losing control of its servers and risking the theft of every man, woman and child's data on there as "a slap on the wrist". ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Google Released Data From Their Gmail Accounts to The US Government
Jun 24, 2013Two Wikileaks volunteers have revealed that Google released data from their Gmail accounts to the US government under the secret, legally enforced information seizures being made by the Prism security group. Since Prism, and the secret, ...
Tags: Google, Wikileaks, Gmail Account, NSA
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US Justice Department Charged Former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden
Jun 22, 2013Edward Snowden says he leaked information to show the extent to which citizens were spied on in the US. Picture: AP / The Guardian Source: AP The US Justice Department has charged former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden ...
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Manning Accused of Sharing Thousands of Classified Government Documents with Wikileaks
Jun 3, 2013U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning accused of sharing thousands of classified government documents with WikiLeaks, knew that the information would aid enemies of the U.S., a prosecutor argued Monday. Manning, facing a court ...
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Jeremy Hammond Pleaded Guilty to The Charges and Now Faces 10 Years in Jail
May 30, 2013Jeremy Hammond, the hacker accused of breaking into global foreign-intelligence company Stratfor's systems and stealing information later posted to Wikileaks, has pleaded guilty to the charges and now faces 10 years in jail. Caught in ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Donations Have Been Declining Substantially Over The Last Two Years
May 24, 2013Donations to WikiLeaks since January have only been enough to cover expenditures in essential infrastructure, such as servers, according to a transparency report. Donations have been declining substantially over the last two years, the ...
Tags: Computer Products
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Most People Would Put Jeff Garzik in The Former Camp
May 22, 2013With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinion. Most people would put Jeff Garzik in the former camp. A Bitcoin core developer for ...
Tags: Bitcoin, Jeff Garzik, Computer Products
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NSW Emerged as Supposed Target of Alleged Computer Hacker Matthew Flannery
May 16, 2013A local council in regional NSW has emerged as the supposed target of alleged computer hacker Matthew Flannery, the self-proclaimed leader of the international cyber-crime syndicate Lulzsec, police say. Mr Flannery, 24, known by the ...
Tags: Hacker, Computer Products
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The Three-Year Blockade Against Donations to Wikileaks May Have Just Been Chiseled Away
Apr 27, 2013The three-year blockade against donations to WikiLeaks may have just been chiseled away, in Iceland, by a ruling handed down by the European country's Supreme Court. The verdict, handed down Wednesday, says that the Visa subcontractor ...
Tags: Wikileaks, Computer Products
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Wikileaks' Latest Release Is Billed as a Transcript of a "Secret Meeting"
Apr 23, 2013Wikileaks' latest release is billed as a transcript of a "secret meeting," but it may more accurately be termed a promotion. The site on Friday released a five-hour transcript of a June 2011 meeting between Julian Assange, one of the ...
Tags: google, Computer Products
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The House Voted 288-127 to Approve The CISPA
Apr 22, 2013The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, despite opposition from the White House and several privacy and digital rights groups. The House on Thursday voted 288-127 to ...
Tags: CISPA, Privacy Objections