CISPA replaces SOPA as Internet’s Enemy No. 1

CISPA replaces SOPA as Internet’s Enemy No. 1

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is quickly becoming the Internet’s new most-hated piece of legislation. But is it really “the new SOPA,” as critics are calling it? Here, a comprehensive rundown of what CISPA is, what it...

How to Spot an Online Spy (Cointelpro Agent)

One way to neutralize a potential activist is to get them to be in a group that does all the wrong things. Why? 1) The message doesn’t get out. 2) A lot of time is wasted 3) The activist is frustrated and discouraged 4) Nothing good is accomplished. FBI and...
ProjectPM.org – Exposing The Cyber Surveillance State

ProjectPM.org – Exposing The Cyber Surveillance State

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...
The Dark Side of Facebook

The Dark Side of Facebook

For most of us, our experience on Facebook is a benign – even banal – one. A status update about a colleague’s commute. A “friend” request from someone we haven’t seen for years (and hoped to avoid for several more). A picture of another friend’s baby, barely...
Line Noise: Electronic Device Search and Seizure

Line Noise: Electronic Device Search and Seizure

EFF activist Eva Galperin interviews EFF criminal defense attorney, Hanni Fakhoury, on the newest edition of Line Noise, the EFF podcast. Whether law enforcement wants to search your home computer, tries to browse through your smart phone at a traffic stop, or seeks...

1984: Coming To A Street Lamp Near You

Intellistreets is a wireless digital infrastructure that is designed to provide information, entertainment and safety notifications to passerby, all while controlling vehicular and pedestrian traffic, providing on-demand street lighting, and monitoring its surrounding...

INTERNET: Your Connection Is Tapped

Governments turn to hacking techniques for surveillance of citizens Surveillance firms that recently attended a US conference are accused of offering their services to repressive regimes Italy’s Hacking Team offers ‘an offensive solution for cyber...

User Guide: Online Anonymity

The act of keeping your identity hidden online by using connection methods and encryption methods, to make yourself untraceable to a person, website, company, school or whatever else you are doing/connecting to. Stay hidden when investigating a website, or scanning it...