May 9, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Anonymous
What Is Coltan and Why Does It Matter? Columbite-tantalite — commonly known as coltan — is a dark, tar-like mineral found in enormous concentrations within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Congo holds approximately 80 percent of global coltan reserves....
May 8, 2012 | Activism, Government Agenda, Video
In his first television interview since he resigned from the National Security Agency over its domestic surveillance program, William Binney discusses the NSA’s massive power to spy on Americans and why the FBI raided his home after he became a whistleblower. Binney...
May 7, 2012 | Anonymous
In the spring of 2012, Bitcoin was still widely misunderstood. Many dismissed it as a vehicle for illicit transactions or a digital curiosity destined to fade. Yet beneath the sensational headlines, a fundamental experiment in decentralized currency was taking shape,...
May 5, 2012 | Anonymous
Security Researchers Call for a More Disciplined Anonymous At the 2012 SOURCE security conference in Boston, two prominent cybersecurity researchers presented a provocative argument: the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous needed to evolve. Josh Corman, then...
May 4, 2012 | Anonymous, News
From the very first release of ‘AntiSec’ related hashtags, Anonymous king-pin Sabu was under full control of the FBI. It is clear this was a red-herring to help promote the cyber-surveillance police state currently undergoing rapid deployment....
Apr 28, 2012 | Activism, Video
Jacob Appelbaum: WikiLeaks Volunteer Subjected to Persistent Government Surveillance Jacob Appelbaum, a computer security researcher and volunteer with the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, became one of the most visible examples of government surveillance targeting...
Apr 27, 2012 | Anonymous
The Anonymous collective has been one of the most debated phenomena of the digital age — a decentralized, leaderless network that defies conventional definitions of organization, activism, and protest. A satirical manifesto that circulated in early internet forums...
Apr 27, 2012 | Anonymous
Border Interrogations Over Encryption Software Nadim Kobeissi, the developer behind the open-source encrypted chat application Cryptocat, reported being detained and interrogated at the U.S.-Canadian border in mid-2012. According to Kobeissi, it was his fourth DHS...
Apr 27, 2012 | Anonymous
Bitcoin’s Anonymity Problem Bitcoin is frequently described as an anonymous digital currency, but this characterization is misleading. While it may be possible to conduct transactions in ways that obscure identity, the public nature of the blockchain means that...
Apr 26, 2012 | Leaks, News
In April 2012, Iran announced that its military engineers had successfully decoded the intelligence systems and memory hard discs of a captured American RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone — an aircraft previously considered one of the most advanced unmanned...
Apr 25, 2012 | Government Agenda, Leaks
The FBI and Department of Justice produced a series of 25 flyers under the “Communities Against Terrorism” initiative, designed to be distributed to businesses across a wide range of industries. These documents instructed employees and business owners on...
Apr 25, 2012 | Anonymous
The U.S. Government Framed Anonymous as a National Security Threat Beginning around 2011, U.S. government agencies began classifying Anonymous — the decentralized online protest movement — as a potential threat to national security. General Keith Alexander, who led...
Apr 24, 2012 | Anonymous
Greek Television Produced a Major Anonymous Documentary In March 2012, the Greek television program War Zone aired a two-part documentary titled “Soldiers With No Name,” offering one of the first in-depth television examinations of the Anonymous hacktivist...
Apr 10, 2012 | Anonymous
The purpose of Project PM’s wiki is to provide a centralized, actionable data set regarding the intelligence contracting industry, the PR industry’s interface with totalitarian regimes, the mushrooming infosec/”cybersecurity” industry, and...
Apr 10, 2012 | Activism, Secret Societies
The Testimony of an Alleged Illuminati Defector Among the most controversial claims to emerge from the world of conspiracy research are those attributed to a woman using the pseudonym “Svali,” who described herself as a former mind control programmer...
Apr 5, 2012 | Activism, Events & Assassinations
A Passenger’s Eyewitness Account From Delta Flight 253 On Christmas Day 2009, attorney Kurt Haskell and his wife were returning from an African safari with a connecting flight through Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. What Haskell says he witnessed in the...
Mar 13, 2012 | Leaks
Punch-drunk Belgium is reeling from a new shock after a senior police officer confirmed last week what has long been rumoured: that some of the country’s leaders indulge in sex parties, known ironically as “ballets roses”. Amusing and appalling in...
Mar 12, 2012 | Activism, Anonymous
Rise of the Hacktivist: From /b, to Scientology, to the Arab Spring, Through HBGary up to LulzXmas
Mar 12, 2012 | Activism
A Scholar Who Saw the Digital Copyright Crisis Coming Ithiel de Sola Pool was a political scientist and communications theorist at MIT whose work in the early 1980s anticipated with remarkable accuracy the copyright conflicts that would define the internet age. His...
Mar 6, 2012 | Anonymous, News
The Unmasking of Sabu: When Anonymous Met the FBI In March 2012, the hacking world was shaken by the revelation that Hector Xavier Monsegur — known online as “Sabu,” a prominent figure in the hacktivist collectives Anonymous and LulzSec — had been secretly...
Mar 1, 2012 | Anonymous, Leaks
Feb 28, 2012 | Anonymous, News
Privilege Against Self-Incrimination Applies to Act of Decrypting Data San Francisco – A federal appeals court has found a Florida man’s constitutional rights were violated when he was imprisoned for refusing to decrypt data on several devices. This is the...
Feb 27, 2012 | Activism, News
Nobel Nomination for the WikiLeaks Source In February 2012, U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Manning had been accused of orchestrating one of the largest leaks of classified information in American military history, providing...
Feb 27, 2012 | Anonymous, Leaks, News
WikiLeaks Publishes Millions of Stratfor Intelligence Emails On February 27, 2012, WikiLeaks launched the publication of The Global Intelligence Files — a massive trove of more than five million internal emails from Stratfor, a Texas-based private intelligence firm....
Feb 25, 2012 | Activism, Globalist Corporations, Video
http://youtu.be/eHatM1aeI-g Fox News whistle-blowers talk about their fight to simply share the TRUTH, and how it cost them their careers.
