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The federal trial against alleged computer criminal Barrett Brown has been delayed by six months. Now the activist once called the “spokesperson” of the Anonymous hacker movement will wait in prison for one full year before being tried. Brown, 31, was scheduled to stand trial later this month for a slew of charges that have handed ...

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Anonymity is great! Except when it’s not. It shields the whistleblower from blowback and the deep-background source from getting deep-sixed. It helped women publish novels way back when . . . when that was a pretty novel idea. But it can also embolden th http://m.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/online-and-anonymous-a-key-facet-of-web-culture-is-a-double-edged-sword/2013/03/05/48e9832c-85d2-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.htmlRelated PostsNational Security Agency: Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research (2007) [...]

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Anonymous claims Bank of America spied on activists

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http://m.now.msn.com/anonymous-claims-bank-of-america-spied-on-activistsRelated PostsIn memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 25c3: OnionCat — A Tor-based Anonymous VPN E. Gabriella Coleman: Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (2012)

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I Can Haz Internet Freedom?

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The U.S. government and the government of the U.K., along with almost every corporation and governing body ever targeted by Anonymous, have unsurprisingly treated the banner and its users as a criminal, terrorist group. Our government, as well as law enforcement across the pond, has charged dozens of anons, threatening decade-long prison terms—or worse. Anonymous [...]

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Daniel Malone, Ralph Paine: Autonomous Anonymous: On Becoming Whatever (2008)

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FBI Opens Fresh Criminal Investigation Into Anonymous Following Hack

Bankers affected say it’s no big deal Jo David Cummins, president and CEO of Community First Bank of the Heartland in Illinois, laughs off Anonymous’ mid-January “hack” of a U.S. Federal Reserve database, which scooped up his record and over 4,000 others.  He tells Reuters, “It hasn’t been much of a hassle.  The information that was on the contact system was [...]

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Scientology published private data of Anonymous Activists

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Why Is Barrett Brown Facing 100 Years in Prison?

It was announced on Wednesday morning that Barrett Brown, a man who became a very public talking head for AnonOps (the brain trust that is arguably the cortex of the hacktivist group Anonymous, even though there technically isn’t one) is facing up to 100 years in jail for three separate indictments. The most recent two [...]

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Pentagon Announces Cyber Force Expansion As Anonymous Hacks Government Websites

The Pentagon plans to expand its cybersecurity force from 900 personnel to 4,900 troops and civilians over the new several years, Ellen Nakashima of The Washington Post reports.  The expansion reflects the need to address vulnerabilities in U.S. cyber infrastructure as well as the desire of the Defense Department’s Cyber Command to build its offensive capabilities. From The Post: The plan [...]

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Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown faces new charges

Barrett Brown, a self-proclaimed spokesman for Anonymous, has been hit with new charges by authorities in Texas for concealing evidence. It’s the third round of charges in a case that his former attorney describes as an attempt to silence the outspoken and provocative activist. “Clearly they’re more worried about what they perceive as his egging [...]

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Mega Launches: Brilliantly Secure, But Not Anonymous

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Today a few dozen people were invited to try Mega, the new and improved version of the defunct Megaupload file-hosting service. With “The Privacy Company” as Mega’s slogan, Kim Dotcom and his team are making it clear that they are doing their best to secure the files of their users. Our first impression confirms that the encryption indeed works brilliantly, but those who are looking for complete anonymity might be a bit disappointed.

Source: Mega Launches: Brilliantly Secure, But Not Anonymous

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Anonymous, 4chan, and how Cut for Bieber pushes trolling to the limit of lulz (whatever that means)

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Part of me finds Operation Cut for Bieber pretty droll. At least the concept of it – encouraging ‘Beliebers’ to cut themselves and post the results on social media in protest against their hero’s alleged weed-smoking – is so disproportionate, it makes the stomach drop a bit like something out of Fight Club, or any [...]

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Public Influence: The Immortalization of an Anonymous Death

Some people look on silently, hands over mouths. A teenage girl in a sundress wipes tears from her eyes. A circle of high school-age kids debate whether a fall from that height would be fatal. A woman in a pantsuit talks into her phone, excitedly describing the scene. Others peck away at keypads. More phones [...]

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Anonymous reflects on a “frantic and historic” year

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Anons talks about their cyberactivist highlights of 2012, the impact of arrests and who can speak for Anonymous Perhaps no tech story was bigger this year than the growth of the crusading hacker collective Anonymous. In a Best of 2012 package, Andrew Leonard considers the group’s mission and popularity. Natasha Lennard discusses the group’s biggest [...]

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Andy Greenberg’s ‘This Machine Kills Secrets’ reveals WikiLeaks, Anonymous and other document leakers as either heroes or anarchists — or both

Forbes magazine journalist Andy Greenberg takes readers on a terrific and revealing — if considerably unsettling — investigation into the shadowy war rooms behind our computer screens in “This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World’s Information.” What we find can be idealistic, anarchistic and futuristic. Sometimes all at [...]

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How Anonymous got political

Quinn Norton looks behind the mask of the hacker network, charting its evolution into a global activist force. It was 26 January 2012 in Poland, and the kids had been protesting in the streets against an intellectual property treaty in sub-freezing temperatures. Already, Anonymous hackers had taken Polish government servers offline for more than 36 hours to [...]

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Twitter Briefly Suspends Anonymous’ Account After Hacker Group Targets Westboro Baptist Church

Twitter briefly suspended the main mouthpiece belonging to the hacker collective Anonymous after the group posted personal data belonging to members of Westboro Baptist Church, the hacker group said Wednesday. But more than an hour after its main Twitter account — @YourAnonNews — was shut down, Anonymous announced the account had been re-activated in a [...]

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Markus Beckedahl, Andre Meister (eds.): Jahrbuch Netzpolitik 2012: Von A wie ACTA bis Z wie Zensur (2012) [German]

Netzpolitik betrifft alle, jede und jeden. Was im Jahr 2012 wichtig war, was vielleicht auch zu kurz kam, darauf blickt dieses Jahrbuch zurück. Die Autorinnen und Autoren waren Beobachter und Akteur zugleich. Ihre Berichte in diesem Buch fassen die wichtigsten Themen des Jahres zusammen, ordnen ein und reflektieren. Von A wie ACTA und Anonymous über [...]

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