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Barrett Brown Gets His Trial Postponed and Hacker-Enabling Journalists Get a Muzzle

Barrett Browning is not going to get as speedy a trial as some had hoped. But not his lawyers, who are deliberately trying to delay and postpone, citing all kinds of things -- because among other things they can have most of the sentence...

WikiLeas is a Dox Dump Even if Glenn Greenwald and Tom Blanton Don't Think It Is

WikiLeaks is still a dox dump, even if Glenn Greenwald of Salon doesn't think so and strenuously tries to persuade us that it is not, and even if Tom Blanton of the National Security Archives, a man who tries to de-classify documents ...

WikiLeaks is About War for Power, Not Rights or Freedom

St. Michael Trampling the Dragon (Raphael, 1518) There is war in heaven (cyberspace, or, as some of us call it, the Metaverse) -- and on earth too, with heaven. The WikiLeaks Revolution is about a war for power on the one hand betw...

Aaron Swartz Committed a Crime But Would Not Do the Time

Aaron Swartz in May 2012 evangelizing in Washington, DC at a conference about his anti-SOPA crusade. It involved an outright lie in claiming that there would be "Internet censorship" merely because the government legitimately prosecute...

Wiki-Lame

Oh! I wondered what this caper involving human rights groups petitioning Wikileaks to remove their mentioning of names from their unconsciounable Afghan war documents dump was really about. When I caught sight of the surprising joint sta...

GamerGate is Only Part of the Story of Extreme Nihilism Online

By Catherine A. Fitzpatrick Screenshot by Whirly Fizzle of a 4chan "particle attack" in the virtual world of Second Life. Five Years Since GamerGate So apparently it's the five-year anniversary of GamerGate, as we learn from a sh...