Internet
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“The PirateBox”: WiFi + USB Drive = Your Own Mini-Internet (Freedom) By Tony Cartalucci
Worried about draconian Internet laws? Creeping surveillance? The inability to share with others without being criminalized? The Internet is still a tool of tremendous power, but a deep rot has set in. We have caught it early and we are fighting to stop this rot, but there are other options we can begin exploring to… Continue reading
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“The PirateBox”: WiFi + USB Drive = Your Own Mini-Internet (Freedom) By Tony Cartalucci
Worried about draconian Internet laws? Creeping surveillance? The inability to share with others without being criminalized? The Internet is still a tool of tremendous power, but a deep rot has set in. We have caught it early and we are fighting to stop this rot, but there are other options we can begin exploring to… Continue reading
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Internet Freedom and Copyright Reform: Aaron Swartz’s Suspicious Death By Stephen Lendman
He was an Internet folk hero. He supported online freedom and copyright reform. He advocated free and open web files. He championed a vital cause. He worked tirelessly for what’s right. Continue reading
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Video: Aaron Swartz – a Fighter Against the Privatization of Knowledge
Two colleagues and friends of Aaron Swartz talk about his activism and vision of technology in the service of a more democratic and just society Continue reading
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Cloud surfing: US surveilance act ‘grave threat’ to EU sovereignty
An intelligence bill has put the frighteners on EU citizens as it allows the US access to their personal data stored in internet clouds like those used on Facebook and Google. The law is a ‘grave risk’ to the rights of EU citizens, says an EU report. Continue reading
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Cuba, Socialism and Cybernetics By Ivet González
“It is not an option for our future development, it’s an imperative of our time,” economist Ricardo Torres told IPS. “Without the mass application of the New Information and Communications Technologies (NICT), to production processes and social life, there are no contemporary possibilities of development.” Continue reading
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Ireland copyright battle: Newspapers demand $400 for sharing links
The body representing Ireland’s main newspapers is demanding a minimum of $400 for third parties to directly link their articles, sparking an unprecedented copyright row which strikes at the very heart of sharing content on the World Wide Web. Continue reading
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Technological Servitude By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high tech devices, while driving, while walking, while shopping, while in groups of friends, while in restaurants, while waiting in doctor offices and hospitals, while sitting in toilets – everywhere. While connected electronically, they are inattentive to and disconnected in physical reality. Continue reading
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Global split over telecom treaty By Kevin Reed
The 2012 World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT-12) in Dubai collapsed on Friday, December 14 after the United States delegation walked out and refused to sign the new International Telecommunications Union (ITU) treaty. Western allies including the UK, France, Germany, Australia and Canada joined the US. Continue reading
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Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics’ Accounts
Prominent political critics confirmed to us that their accounts had been suspended or inactivated yesterday in a coordinated purge. Continue reading
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Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics’ Accounts
Prominent political critics confirmed to us that their accounts had been suspended or inactivated yesterday in a coordinated purge. Continue reading
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Wired’s Most Dangerous: Russia’s cyber-security mogul behind Flame virus downfall hits top 15
“If all he did in the last year was intercede in America’s efforts to short-circuit Iran’s nuclear ambitions – definitively unmasking a cyber-weapon for the first time – Kaspersky would’ve earned himself a spot on our list of the most dangerous people in the world.” Continue reading
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Google starts watching what you do off the Internet too
The most powerful company on the Internet just got a whole lot creepier: a new service from Google merges offline consumer info with online intelligence, allowing advertisers to target users based on what they do at the keyboard and at the mall. Continue reading
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Speak2Tweet: Google & Twitter Partner Up with US State Dept. to Monopolise Information Flow Out of Syria By Martin Iqbal
Amid Internet and telephone network outages in Syria, US-trained opposition activists use US-supplied satellite phones to contact Google & Twitter’s ‘Speak2Tweet‘ service. Despite these efforts, the service seems so far to be a resounding failure. Continue reading
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Orwellian “Eavesdropping on a Worldwide Scale”: United Nations asks for Control over the World’s Internet
Members of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) have agreed to work towards implementing a standard for the Internet that would allow for eavesdropping on a worldwide scale. Continue reading
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Orwellian “Eavesdropping on a Worldwide Scale”: United Nations asks for Control over the World’s Internet
Members of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) have agreed to work towards implementing a standard for the Internet that would allow for eavesdropping on a worldwide scale. Continue reading
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Video: Assange to RT: Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to totalitarian rule
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says all the necessary physical infrastructure for absolute totalitarianism through the internet is ready. He told RT that the question now is whether the turnkey process that already started will go all the way. Continue reading
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European Parliament votes to protect Wikileaks against financial blockade
In a landmark decision today the European Parliament initiated the drafting of legislation that would stop the arbitrary banking blockades against WikiLeaks and other organizations facing economic censorship. Continue reading
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“Anonymous” Winning Cyber-War Over Israel
When the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) this week began taking military action in the Gaza strip against Hamas (as the IDF announced on Twitter), Anonymous declared its own war as part of #OpIsrael. Among the casualties are thousands of email addresses and passwords, hundreds of Israeli Web sites, government-owned as well as privately owned pages,… Continue reading
