More than 6,000 websites, including Reddit, Tumblr, Mozilla, are taking part in an online protest against government surveillance. The action…
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Whistleblowers, rejoice! The Freedom of the Press Foundation is taking the helm of a secure document-submission service co-created by late…
ecret ServiceSteven Musil CNET The U.S. Secret Service on Monday released the first 104 pages of agency documents related to…
The details surrounding the death of the young genius inventor Aaron Swartz get more bizarre by the day. Days before…
After Aaron Swartz’s suicide, Kevin Poulsen filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department of Homeland Security,…
Legislatures in Washington are being offered a proposal that could cause major changes to the federal computer law used to…
Documents pertaining to the federal investigation of Aaron Swartz will soon be made public, but first they’ll likely be redacted…
The former girlfriend of computer hacker Aaron Swartz is lashing out at the US Justice Department after Attorney General Eric…
United States Attorney General Eric Holder says that the Department of Justice never intended for computer hacker Aaron Swartz to…
By JacobSloan The decision to hound Swartz on flimsy charges with the possibility of decades in prison was in part…
Anonymous has announced it gained access to the State Department’s website, captured a database, and published it online. It also…
by Graham Cluley Hackers – operating under the flag of the Anonymous movement – have hacked various US government websites…
Hacktivist movement Anonymous has hijacked the US Sentencing Commission website as a personal vendetta to retaliate against the justice system…
In a series of tweets, WikiLeaks disclosed that deceased Internet activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz may have contributed to…
Let us start by dismissing the prosecution’s ludicrous charge that any programmer as talented as Aaron Swartz would dedicate his…
Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz was “killed by the government,” his father told mourners Tuesday during his son’s funeral in…
Just hours after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pledged an investigation into its role in events leading up to the…
By Mike Masnick Many have noted that the US Attorneys had made a new filing on the day that Aaron…