This week independent media and grassroots activists will descend upon New York City for the trial of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder of Silk Road, the darkweb bitcoin marketplace.
This week independent media and grassroots activists will descend upon New York City for the trial of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder of Silk Road, the darkweb bitcoin marketplace.
Hoping to capitalize on the recent Sony breach, President Obama unveiled legislation that would create a friendlier environment for companies and government to share information about cyberthreats and security vulnerabilities.
It has the potential to anonymize a greater range of applications and services as it gains adoption, and its architecture is theoretically less vulnerable to the sorts of de-anonymizing attacks researchers claim have been able to use against Tor.
"CISPA would encourage the open sharing of personal data with nearly no privacy protections--a profound abuse of users' rights," said a lawyer. "It would create yet another surveillance regime, giving the NSA new sources of user data,
Ross Ulbricht is finally getting his day in court, 15 months after plainclothes FBI agents grabbed him in the science fiction section of a San Francisco library and accused him of running the billion-dollar online drug bazaar known as the Silk Road.
As for Tor Ekeland, Weev Auernheimer offers his highest praise. Tor, he says, "is a very competent legal scholar and theorist [and] also a relentless motherfucker that takes no bullshit and can hold his own in a street fight."
By 2022, there will be 1.1 billion smart meters installed in homes, reporting real-time usage to utility companies and other interested parties, like your local Fusion Center or SWAT Team.
Ladar Levison is most well-known as the founder of the secure e-mail service Lavabit, which he shut down in mid-2013 in an effort to avoid being forced to comply with a US government demand to turn over users' e-mails.
When former Google employee Will Scott had the chance to visit the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, he also purchased a copy of North Korea's "Red Star 3" operating system before returning to America.
Government censorship of the Internet is a cat-and-mouse game. And despite more aggressive tactics in recent months, the cats have been largely frustrated while the mice wriggle away.
Under the new rules the tax rate on digital services like cloud storage and movie streaming will be determined by where consumers live, and not where the company selling the product has its European headquarters.
It's not easy to be truly anonymous online. Sure, there are plenty of chat apps and secret-sharing sites that claim to offer you privacy, but it's tricky to know whether US intelligence agencies have a backdoor to access them.
Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system will debut with an entirely new web browser code-named Spartan, according to a report citing anonymous sources.
The mysterious corner of the Internet known as the Dark Web is designed to defy all attempts to identify its inhabitants. But one group of researchers has attempted to shed new light on what those users are doing under the cover of anonymity.
US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication. The cloud, it seems, is full of holes. The good news: New Snowden documents show that some forms of encryption still cause
Google released information about the government requests it receives to take down its content, revealing attempts in the US to scrub content related to alleged prisoner abuse, sex crimes with a minor, and fraudulent business dealings.
But it's also filled with wonderful people. And those folks have been so moved by Thomas, a kind-hearted homeless man, they are going to give him more than $103,000 -- probably a lot more.
Some residents of Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a holiday gift this December – the fastest home internet speed available just about anywhere in the world.
A prominent Tibetan writer says Facebook deleted her post on the self-immolation of a monk in Sichuan Province, raising concerns about politically motivated censorship.
In addition to all of our wars in the Middle East and the war that has erupted on the streets of America, we are now engaged in a cyber war with North Korea and an economic war with Russia.
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