Dec 9, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, Extra-Dimensional, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Kerry Cassidy In 2006 Kerry ran across Bill Ryan, a dude with a nice line in broad-brimmed hats, and they shacked up for a while at the Camelot Castle Hotel in Tintagel. Project Camelot grew out of their post-coital conversations, conceived as an open-ended series of...
Dec 9, 2014 | Anonymous, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
The PayPal 14 are a group of defendants allegedly connected with the hacktivist group Anonymous, thirteen of whom pled guilty in a San Jose court in California, United States in December 2013, to charges of conspiring to disrupt access to the PayPal payment...
Dec 9, 2014 | Anonymous, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Christopher Doyon Chris Doyon (alias “Commander X”), a self-described leader ‘within’ Anonymous, was arrested in September 2011 for a cyberattack on the website of Santa Cruz County, California. He jumped bail in February 2012 and fled across...
Dec 9, 2014 | Anonymous, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Jake Davis Topiary, real name Jake Leslie Davis, born October 27, 1992, is a former hacker. He has worked with Anonymous, LulzSec, and similar hacktivist groups.Topiary, real name Jake Leslie Davis, born October 27, 1992, is a former hacker. He has worked with...
Dec 9, 2014 | Extra-Dimensional, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused in 2002 of perpetrating the “biggest military computer hack of all time,”[2] although McKinnon himself – who has a diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome –...
Dec 9, 2014 | Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Jesselyn Radack (born December 12, 1970) is a former ethics adviser to the United States Department of Justice who came to prominence as a whistleblower after she disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) committed what she believed to be an ethics...
Dec 9, 2014 | Leaks, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Thomas Drake is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency, a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, and a whistleblower.is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency, a decorated United States Air...
Dec 9, 2014 | Leaks, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
John Kiriakou is a former CIA analyst and case officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News, blogger for Huffington Post, and author.former CIA analyst and case officer, former...
Dec 9, 2014 | Anonymous, Leaks, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Jeremy Hammond is a political activist and computer hacker from Chicago. He was convicted and sentenced in November 2013 to 10 years in US Federal Prison for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor and releasing the leaks through the whistleblowing website...
Dec 9, 2014 | Leaks, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Chelsea “Bradley” Manning Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is a United States Army soldier who was convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after releasing the largest set of classified documents ever leaked to the...
Dec 9, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, Leaks, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Julian Assange Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher and journalist. He is known as the editor-in-chief of the website WikiLeaks, which he co-founded in 2006 after an earlier career in hacking and programming.Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher and...
Dec 9, 2014 | Leaks, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Edward Loomis worked as an NSA cryptologist from 1964 to 2001. Prior to the 9/11 attacks, Loomis unsuccessfully lobbied the agency to adopt a sophisticated data-collection program — nicknamed “ThinThread” — to monitor foreign Internet traffic...
Dec 9, 2014 | Black Technology, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Mehran Tavakoli Keshe is an Iranian-born (in 1958) nuclear engineer known for his research on plasma reactors and interests in free energy applications and for his claim that he pioneered a space technology that was, according to some, used by Iran and resulted in the...
Dec 9, 2014 | Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Kenneth O’Keefe Kenneth Nichols O’Keefe is an Irish-Palestinian citizen and activist and former United States Marine and Gulf War veteran who attempted to renounce US citizenship in 2001.is an Irish-Palestinian citizen and activist and former United States...
Dec 9, 2014 | Leaks, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Mordechai Vanunu, also known as John Crossman, is a former Israeli nuclear technician who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986.
Dec 9, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Robert David Steele Vivas is an American activist and a former Central Intelligence Agency clandestine services case officer known for his promotion of open source intelligence.Vivas is an American activist and a former Central Intelligence Agency clandestine services...
Dec 8, 2014 | Extra-Dimensional, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Edgar Dean “Ed” Mitchell, Sc.D., is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut who”walked on the moon” and says aliens have visited earth many times.
Dec 8, 2014 | Extra-Dimensional, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Alfred Lambremont Webre is an American author, lawyer, futurist, peace activist, environmental activist, and a space activist who promotes the ban of space weapons.