Wired State

Should the Feds Get to See Jacob Appelbaum's E-mail?

I'm a huge critic of Jacob Appelbaum, whom I've documented as an open-source cultist and thuggish heckler of critics on Twitter. He's also a liar, claiming that US soldiers deliberately killed children in Iraq when they could not have po...

Tor Chickens Coming Home to Roost?

Flooded onion field in Oregon. Photo by StuSeeger. So as I noted yesterday, Tor has had to roll up reportedly half of its network because of the capture of a child pornographer in Ireland. The circumvention software Tor was originall...

New New Media: Pierre Omidyar and Glenn Greenwald Will Not Get Along and It Will Fail

Virtual Darfur. Screenshot by Ethan Zuckerman By Catherine A. Fitzpatrick Pierre Omidyar's new venture with the crypto gang of journalist activists -- Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill -- will fail, even though they h...

Snowed on Snowden

WikiLeaks (unqualified) "lawyer" Sarah Harrison puts her hand up to block reporters from taking pictures of her client Edward Snowden. Doesn't that say it all about the transparency set?! (C) Polona Frelih If there is any kind of majo...

Mighty Spin on "Spoiled Onion" of Tor -- From Several Quarters

I saw a huge propaganda piece in Business Week come out touting the suspect circumvention software Tor, about which I have written critically here, here and here. I thought perhaps this giant love pat with an interview even of Paul Syve...

Senate Definition of Journalism in Shield Law Sounds Like a Great Thing

There's a certain amount of howling on Twitter about the Senate defining who a journalist is *for the purpose of the shield law,* i.e. for occasions when a journalist will claim the right under law and precedent to protect his sources a...

Where Was Edward Snowden in March and April 2013?

A grinning Snowden answering a question about moles in the NSA in the film made by Laura Poitras released in May 2013. In continuing to contemplate my compendium of material on Edward Snowden and his WikiLeaks enablers Julian Assang...

Even if Greenwald Finally Does Name Names, It Will Not Persuade Me to Oppose the NSA

So Glenn Greenwald is now blustering that he will "name names" and this will be like the "finale" of the fireworks -- you save the best for last. Hey, does that mean he will stop leaking our national secrets?! I've been dogging this po...

Is Tor in Trouble?

Photo by kalavinka Tor is at the center of a huge crackdown on child-pornography out of Ireland. Could it be that Jacob Appelbaum will develop other reasons why he has to stay in Germany and not go to the United States and maybe not ...

Are We Turning a Corner on Snowden?

Perhaps, although actually, I actually don't think we are, just yet, because don't forget, Obama is trying to ram through "reforms" after brief consultations mainly engineered by Ron Wyden and other pro-Snowden congress people -- and the...