Lauri Love is a 30-year-old hacktivist from Stradishall, UK who was indicted in July of 2014 on charges of conspiracy, causing damage to a protected computer, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. In that case he and his unnamed crewmates are… Read More ›
Anonymous, that group of masked “terrorists” who have taken on everything from ISIS to tiger hunters to high school bullies to the credit card industry has a new target this week. That would be Daniel Rosen, the US State Department’s Director… Read More ›
American Matt DeHart, former Anon, former US soldier, former refugee claimant, is facing a new and very involuntary life back in The Land of the Free, having been denied refugee status in Canada, the country to which he fled after… Read More ›
TG to the IF, kittens! We made it through the first full week of 2015 and so far, so … so … so much like last year, actually. It gets better, right? It gets better! That’s what the Youtube videos… Read More ›
Well, if you want to be technical it’s set for January 22. For now. The reason Barrett Brown’s sentencing is set for January 22, 2015 instead of December 16, 2014 as it was originally, is that on December 16 the… Read More ›
And by “full” we mean with several minutes of post-arrest porn cut out of it. Yes, this is what happens when you get busted and manhandled by the Federal Bureau of Investigations: people in your chat session upload porn while… Read More ›
There are hundreds of pages of information here, thoughtfully collated by the court transcriptionist and uploaded by St. Louis Public Radio. Surely there are by now tens of thousands of analysis and recapping pieces on the internet, but here is… Read More ›
We’re back from our wireless vacay, pirating the wifi in a pirate radio station off the Left Coast. There’s a big, hairy dog on the floor, a discussion of minimum wage on the air, and while there is no picture… Read More ›
For the past seven years, Yahoo has been fighting the NSA in court. Why haven’t you heard about this till now? Because they were secret courts, secret proceedings, and secret terms. And Edward Snowden hadn’t been invented yet. Yahoo lost…. Read More ›
Oh joy, it’s Schadenfreude Day! IMF head Christine Lagarde is being investigated in connection with possible fraud for her role, as Finance Minister, in a convoluted series of events stemming from a €400 lawsuit which was decided in favour of… Read More ›
Today’s links are all about war, war, cyberwar, protests, militarization, war, Bitcoin, and war. Make that latte a double; you’re gonna need it! The Americans are coming! The Americans are coming! To wipe out your pirate sites! (Torrentfreak) The Electronic… Read More ›
Matt DeHart, a former American drone pilot and soldier and past participant in Anonymous actions, is in prison in Canada, awaiting extradition to the US, which seeks him on child pornography charges, charges he and his family claim are a… Read More ›
A classic police sting known as “Mr. Big” has been cut off at the knees by the Supreme Court of Canada, as they threw out murder confession obtained by a Mr. Big sting. The venerable technique so beloved of television… Read More ›
Matt DeHart is an American, a former soldier, former drone pilot, former Anon, former World of Warcraft guild master, former would-be defector, and, according to the FBI, a former child porn producer. No child porn has ever been found on… Read More ›
As we get over hump day and stagger desperately towards the weekend which shimmers in the distance like the promise of redemption, the international news comes faster and faster, as aides-de-camp (des-camps?) shove press release after press release under the… Read More ›
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