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| Oct 11, 2026 | Justice Department investigates TV networks as White House press-access fight escalates | The Justice Department is investigating whether ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC violated antitrust law by jointly suspending pooled television coverage of Trump.
The networks paused pooled video coverage after the White House barred CNN, MS NOW,... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | The world’s largest oat milk producer has joined an unusual climate journalism campaign | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ANTON L. DELGADO
NEW YORK (AP) — Oatly, the world’s largest producer of oat milk, is sending a new message to its consumers: Most people want their governments to take action on climate change.
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| Sep 18, 2026 | Trump targets more news outlets, saying he will ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he was barring CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage... |
| Aug 26, 2026 | How AI Watermark Mandates Could Unmask Journalists Who Never Touched AI | Imagine a scenario where a documentary filmmaker, in the course of making the documentary, captures some damning footage of corporate malfeasance, which she wishes to share with an investigative reporting organization anonymously. Should we... |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Trump is selling early access to his Truth Social posts – and, of course, there are no investigators in sight (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
President Donald Trump continues to enrich himself through rampant self-dealing while everyone else pays the cost of his failed policies — including the war in Iran, tariffs and mass deportations.
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| Aug 13, 2026 | Truth Social Suit Argues Trump Sold Government Property for $100,000 Monthly | By Kyle Belmonte
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| Aug 12, 2026 | Trump's Financial Shield: Court Temporarily Blocks BBC Access in $10 Billion Defamation Case | A federal court temporarily blocked the BBC from accessing Donald Trump's private business records. This offers a crucial, though temporary, reprieve in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster. Trump claims a... |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Plaintiff Trump gets reprieve from an order to disclose his finances in BBC case — but only for now | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer
President Donald J. Trump, Plaintiff, got a welcome break this week in one of his battles with the media — but for the moment, only a temporary one.
As his $10... |
| Jun 24, 2026 | He Moved A Box Of Leftist Zines. MAGA’s Favorite Judge Just Gave Him 30 Years. | In Trump’s America, the First Amendment is a dead letter. If you’re seen as anti-Trump, you apparently no longer have any rights at all. We’ll get to the man who moved a box of zines and got thirty years — he wasn’t even at the protest, but... |
| May 11, 2026 | Share-Owning Journalism Orgs Press Paramount For Company Docs On Corrupt Trump Merger Dealings | More than 4,000 Hollywood insiders recently signed a letter blasting Paramount’s planned $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers, noting that the massive consolidation will be very historically harmful to labor, consumers, and creatives. T... |
| Jan 26, 2026 | The FBI Raided A Reporter’s Home, Ignoring Laws Designed To Prevent Exactly That | If you want to understand how little the current administration cares about the First Amendment, look no further than a pre-dawn FBI raid on a journalist’s home—conducted in apparent violation of a federal law specifically designed to preve... |
| Jan 9, 2026 | Rep. Luna Threatens Journalist With Prison For Posting… Public University Bio | If you want to understand how far MAGA Republicans have strayed from any actual “free speech” principles, look no further than this: Congress issued a subpoena to Rolling Stone journalist Seth Harp, because he posted on X a publicly availab... |
| Jul 31, 2025 | Google Patches Vulnerability That Let Anyone Hide Search Results | Image: ASPhotography/Pixabay
A feature of Google’s web indexing system was exploited to remove web pages from the search engine, independent journalist Jack Poulson and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation revealed on Wednesday. Th... |
| Jul 31, 2025 | Инструмент Google использовали для удаления из поиска информации о гендиректоре одной компании | Генеральный директор технологической компании из Сан-Франциско последние несколько лет пытался удалить нелестную информацию о себе из поисковой выдачи Google. Как выяснила некоммерческая организация Freedom of the Press Foundation, недавно ... |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Paramount to pay $16 million in settlement with Trump over ’60 Minutes’ interview | A spokesman for Trump’s legal team said that with the settlement, Trump “delivers another win for the American people.” Paramount agreed that ‘60 Minutes’ transcripts will be released
In early February, “60 Minutes” released a full, unedite... |
| May 8, 2025 | Intelligence Community Demolishes Trump’s Venezuelan ‘Invasion’ Claims In Record Time… Almost Like They Want Us To Know He’s Lying | The Intelligence Community just demonstrated, in spectacular fashion, exactly how badly Donald Trump and his ODNI chief Tulsi Gabbard misrepresented the laughable supposed “invasion” of the US by Venezuelan gangs. And they did it by respond... |
| May 7, 2025 | Shadows of Justice: The Evolving Landscape of Intelligence and Privacy | In the ever-shifting sands of American governance, two recent developments shine a light on the delicate balance between national security and individual rights. The first involves a declassified intelligence memo that challenges the narrat... |
| May 7, 2025 | The Shadows of Cyber Warfare: A Deep Dive into the NSO Case and Its Implications | The recent legal battle between Meta and Israel's NSO Group shines a glaring light on the murky waters of cyber espionage. This case is not just about a hefty fine; it reveals the intricate web of surveillance, government dealings, and... |
| May 6, 2025 | Declassified intelligence memo contradicts Trump’s claims linking gang to Venezuelan government | The National Intelligence Council helps to coordinate the work of the nation’s intelligence services and its conclusions reflect the findings of individual agencies.
While the assessment found no evidence of significant coordination between... |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Musk Promised Government Transparency, DOGE Delivers Maximum Secrecy | Before the election, Elon Musk declared:
When one of his fanboys tweeted that quote, Elon responded by making an even bigger claim, saying: “There should be no need for FOIA requests. All government data should be default public for maximum... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Meta retreats from fact-checking content: what it means for businesses | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Facebook creator and Meta CEO Mark “Zuck” Zuckerberg shook the world again today when he announced sweeping chang... |
| Aug 19, 2024 | Judge O’Connor Says It’s Crazy To Think Tesla Is Connected To ExTwitter; Forces Media Matters To Pay Elon’s Fees | Apparently, Judge Reed O’Connor doesn’t think that owning a massive amount of Tesla stock constitutes a conflict of interest when it comes to judging Elon Musk’s legal battles.
Last week, we were briefly surprised when infamously partisan J... |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Success Kid Says Transformative Use Lives | The recent publication of Griner v. King seems to have just about everything: an iconic meme (Success Kid!), a troll-ish politician, charges of political censorship, and an application of the latest big Supreme Court opinion on fair use, Wa... |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Ассанж на свободе | 24 июня 2024 года Высокий суд Лондона освободил Джулиана Ассанжа под залог. После этого создатель Wikileaks сразу улетел в Австралию. Ассанж провёл в тюрьме строгого режима Белмарш в Великобритании 1901 день и теперь вышел на свободу. В Wik... |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Assange Walks Free, But Press Freedoms Are Still In Peril | The Julian Assange saga has finally reached its absurd conclusion with a plea deal. But while Assange may be heading home to Australia, the implications for press freedom remain as dire as ever. The U.S. government has successfully criminal... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Президент США заявил, что рассматривает просьбу властей Австралии закрыть дело против гражданина этой страны Ассанжа | 10 апреля 2024 года президент США Джо Байден заявил, что рассматривает просьбу властей Австралии закрыть дело против гражданина этой страны Джулиана Ассанжа. Примечательно, что 11 апреля исполнится 5 лет, как австралийский журналист Ассанж ... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Минюст США обсуждает с адвокатами Ассанжа возможность смягчения обвинений и даже свободу в обмен на «признание вины» | Министерство юстиции США «рассматривает возможность заключения сделки» с основателем Wikileaks Джулианом Ассанжем, что позволит ему выйти на свободу в обмен на «признание вины».
По данным источников СМИ, адвокаты Ассанжа, который ожидает эк... |
| Feb 1, 2024 | Sorry Appin, We’re Not Taking Down Our Article About Your Attempts To Silence Reporters | Back in December, we wrote about Appin. We were not writing about the reports (of which there have been many) that the organization that started as a sort of cybersecurity training school, but morphed into a kind of “hack-for-hire” scheme w... |
| Jan 30, 2024 | CEOs from Meta, TikTok, Snap, X and Discord head to Congress for kids’ online safety hearing | CEOs from some of the biggest social platforms will appear before Congress on Wednesday to defend their companies against mounting criticism that they have done too little to protect kids and teens online.
The hearing, set to begin at 10AM ... |
| Nov 7, 2023 | Freedom Of The Press Foundation Calls Out Alabama Cops For Arresting Journalists For Committing Journalism | The First Amendment provides broad protections for journalists, not only as to what they publish, but also how they collect information. For instance, publishing leaked government documents is protected, even if the acts that provided journ... |
| Aug 14, 2023 | Media giants raise First Amendment concerns over raid on Kansas paper | A police department in Marion, Kansas, was accused Sunday of violating First Amendment protections after officers raided a local paper and the home of its owners.
Driving the news: The Marion County Record's publisher told Axios on Mon... |
| Aug 13, 2023 | Small Kansas newspaper says co-owner, 98, collapsed and died after police raid | Joan Meyer, the 98-year-old co-owner of a small Kansas newspaper, collapsed and died at her home on Saturday, a day after police raided her home and the Marion County Record's office, the newspaper said. Meyer had been "stressed b... |
| Jun 11, 2023 | Ассанж подаёт новую апелляцию в Верховный суд Великобритании против экстрадиции в США | 8 июня 2023 года судья Высокого суда Великобритании отклонил ранее поданную апелляцию Ассанжа. Суд заявил, что ни одно из четырёх пояснений в документе не имеет под собой аргументированных оснований. В США основатель WikiLeaks может быть пр... |
| May 24, 2023 | Arizona Judge Overturns Incredibly Stupid Restraining Order Against A Journalist Who Dared To Knock On A Politician’s Door | For a brief moment of time, a judge in Arizona conspired with a vindictive politician to pretend the First Amendment didn’t exist. Senator Wendy Rogers — who was censured by the state senate last year for stating her political opponents sho... |
| May 15, 2023 | Copyright Abuses Preview A World Without Section 230 | Recently artist and actor David Choe made headlines by citing alleged copyright violations to scrub the internet — including journalists’ social media accounts — of clips from a 2014 podcast where he seemingly admitted raping a masseuse. He... |
| Jul 15, 2022 | Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states | For much of her career, hacker Runa Sandvik has worked to protect journalists and newsrooms from powerful adversaries who want to keep wrongdoing and corruption out of the public eye. Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by t... |
| Jun 21, 2022 | UK Approves Extradition Of Julian Assange, Allowing The US Government To Continue Criminalizing Journalism | It appears all but inevitable that Julian Assange will be receiving an all-expenses-paid (except for his defense!) one-way trip to the United States to face espionage charges for, mostly, performing acts of journalism. |
| Mar 4, 2022 | Pplpleasr Will Not Always Please You: The Rise of NFT Artist Emily Yang | For much of her life, Emily Yang struggled with an inability to say no or speak for herself.
“It’s the culture that we were brought up with,” she said. “As Asians, we are always taught to be humble and not speak up.”
But after two years in ... |
| Jan 20, 2022 | 10 Years Later: SOPA Protests Were A Turning Point, But Not The Beginning Or The End | The SOPA blackouts of 2012 marked an important milestone in the power of online activism to influence policy at the highest levels, but it would be a mistake to view it as either the start or the end of the struggle it represents. It is sti... |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Watch Edward Snowden launch Global Encryption Day, live today | Marginalized communities, survivors of abuse, politicians, law enforcement — they all use encrypted communications to keep their information safe. But the encryption of the kinds of services you and I use every day — from messaging to confi... |
| Oct 7, 2021 | Filecoin Foundation Ensuring That SecureDrop Can Continue To Help Whistleblowers And Journalists | Earlier this year we were excited to see the Filecoin Foundation give the Internet Archive its largest donation ever, to help make sure that the Internet Archive is both more sustainable as an organization, and that the works it makes avail... |
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| Apr 19, 2021 | Edward Snowden arrecada US$ 5,5 milhões com arte digital NFT | Edward Snowden, o famoso ex-analista da Agência Nacional de Segurança dos Estados Unidos (NSA) responsável por divulgar informações confidenciais do sistema de vigilância americano, vendeu um NFT (token não fungível) por cerca de US$ 5,5 mi... |
| Jan 4, 2021 | Judge Refuses To Extradite Julian Assange, Citing US Prison Conditions & Assange's Mental Health | Even if you think that Julian Assange conspired against the US with the help of Russia, as some allege, you should still be extremely concerned about the US's prosecution of him. As we've explained, the details in the indictment w... |
| Jan 4, 2021 | Judge Refuses To Extradite Julian Assange, Citing US Prison Conditions & Assange's Mental Health | Even if you think that Julian Assange conspired against the US with the help of Russia, as some allege, you should still be extremely concerned about the US’s prosecution of him. As we’ve explained, the details in the indictment would crimi... |
| Jan 2, 2021 | If we care about a free press, we must defend Assange | Opinion If we care about a free press, we must defend Assange
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| Dec 17, 2020 | More than 100 journalists were arrested or detained while on the job in the US this year - a more than 1,200% increase | CNN reporter Omar Jimenez is seen being arrested at the Minneapolis protests in May that followed the killing of George Floyd.
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| Dec 17, 2020 | More than 100 journalists were arrested or detained while on the job in the US this year — a more than 1,200% increase from the year before, new report says | CNN reporter Omar Jimenez is seen being arrested at the Minneapolis protests in May that followed the killing of George Floyd. CNN/Twitter
Journalists arrested or detained while on the job in the United States this year totaled at least 117... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | Despite RIAA's Claim That YouTube-dl Is Infringing, Journalists Use It All The Time | A few weeks ago we had a story about the RIAA getting GitHub to remove YouTube-dl using a bizarre form of copyright takedown. The RIAA claimed that the tool violated rules against circumventing DRM. Over at Freedom of the Press Foundation, ... |
| Nov 6, 2020 | How to Ensure That Trump Preserves Official Documents | Vice President Joe Biden is the presumptive winner of the presidential election. There are surely many things on Biden’s to-do list, but it’s not at all implausible that the Biden administration—and a Democrat-controlled House of Representa... |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Brave Whistleblowers Are Being Punished For Saving Lives During A Pandemic | The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the importance of whistleblowers to a free and unfettered press. Throughout this emergency, it has been whistleblowers playing a critical role in informing the general public and forcing governments to... |
| Mar 9, 2020 | Brazil Refuses To Drop Bullshit Charges Against Glenn Greenwald; Appeal Judge's Ruling Throwing Out The Case | Earlier this year, we wrote about the bogus “cybercrimes” charges brought against Glenn Greenwald in Brazil for his reporting on government corruption. As has been noted, a court and law enforcement had already said that Greenwald did not b... |
| Mar 9, 2020 | Brazil Refuses To Drop Bullshit Charges Against Glenn Greenwald; Appeal Judge's Ruling Throwing Out The Case | Earlier this year, we wrote about the bogus "cybercrimes" charges brought against Glenn Greenwald in Brazil for his reporting on government corruption. As has been noted, a court and law enforcement had already said that Greenwald... |
| Dec 23, 2019 | Hackers Discuss the 'Mr. Robot' Series Finale | All good things must come to an end, but we got together one last time to discuss Mr. Robot’s series finale. This encompasses both part I and part II of the finale.
We talked about [SPOILERS, obv] Red Team Elliot vs. Blue Team Elliot, the i... |
| Dec 16, 2019 | Hackers Dissect 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 11: ‘Exit’ | Every week, a roundtable of hackers discusses the latest episode of Mr. Robot. Episode 11 of Mr. Robot’s final season had one last attempted hack, so we discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] rubber duckies, Stuxnet, text/graphics games, parallel unive... |
| Dec 9, 2019 | Hackers Dissect 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 10: ‘Gone’ | Every week, a roundtable of hackers discusses the latest episode of Mr. Robot. Episode 10 of Mr. Robot’s final season was kind of weird and slow and had very little hacking, so we discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] post-doxing, OPR investigations, ... |
| Dec 2, 2019 | Hackers Dissect 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 9: ‘Conflict’ | Episode 9 of Mr. Robot’s final season was not only amazing plot-wise but also happily filled with hacks. We discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] IMSI catchers, Raspberry Pis, PGP, phishing telcos and stealing cryptocurrency. (The chat transcript has ... |
| Nov 25, 2019 | Hackers Dissect 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 8: ‘Request Timeout’ | Episode 8 of Mr. Robot’s final season was intense. We discussed zip ties, phone restoring, location trackers, mixers, Elliot’s sloppy Python script, and the final hack [SPOILERS, obvs]. (The chat transcript has been edited for brevity, clar... |
| Nov 18, 2019 | Hackers Dissect 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 7: ‘Proxy Authentication Required’ | Episode 7 of Mr. Robot’s final season was hack-free, but we still managed to discuss [SPOILERS, obvs] the Cayman National Bank heist and the anonymity of cryptocurrency payments, as well as therapy, mental health, and, uh, surviving kidnapp... |
| Nov 11, 2019 | Hackers Dissect 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 6: ‘Not Acceptable’ | Episode 6 of Mr. Robot’s final season was pretty heavy, filled with coercion, kidnapping, and threats of violence. We discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] physical security, interrogation, vishing, ZRTP keywords, wiretapping, wiping phone data and mo... |
| Nov 4, 2019 | Hackers Dissect 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 5: ‘Method Not Allowed’ | Episode 5 of Mr. Robot’s final season was riveting. We discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] burning evidence, fake ideas, physical security, social engineering, firmware updates, lockpicking, 3D fingerprints, and more. (The chat transcript has been e... |
| Oct 28, 2019 | A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 4: ‘File Not Found’ | The fourth episode of Mr. Robot’s final season left a lot to be desired, but still gave us a little bit to talk about. We discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] social engineering, audio surveillance, signal jamming, operational security, encrypted cha... |
| Oct 21, 2019 | A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 3: ‘Forbidden’ | We asked for more hacks, and Episode 3 of Mr. Robot’s final season delivered. We discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] SS7, breaking and entering, social engineering, multi-factor authentication, and getting into Olivia’s machine. (The chat transcript... |
| Oct 10, 2019 | Ex-Google staffer claims data stored in Google Docs and other G Suite apps isn't as private as users might think | A former employee of Google has claimed that user data stored in Google Docs and certain other Google products can be accessed by the internet giant, and law enforcement agencies.
Google Docs is used by millions of people today to write, ed... |
| Oct 7, 2019 | A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 1: ‘Unauthorized’ | It’s been one year, nine months, and 23 days since the sizzling season 3 finale of Mr. Robot, and the show is back for its last season.
This week, we discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] the probability of getting an envelope with a ringing dumb phon... |
| May 31, 2019 | San Francisco Police Union Steps Up To Criticize Police Chief Over His Handling Of The Leak Investigation | This is fantastic. Not in the way something amazing and pure is fantastic, but fantastic in the way that only an oft-maligned profession feeding on itself can be. It could be lawyers or debt collectors or Instagram influencers. In this case... |
| May 31, 2019 | San Francisco Police Union Steps Up To Criticize Police Chief Over His Handling Of The Leak Investigation | This is fantastic. Not in the way something amazing and pure is fantastic, but fantastic in the way that only an oft-maligned profession feeding on itself can be. It could be lawyers or debt collectors or Instagram influencers. In this case... |
| May 23, 2019 | New Assange Indictment Makes Insane, Unprecedented Use Of Espionage Act On Things Journalists Do All The Time | As we noted when Julian Assange was arrested in the UK last month, it was notable how… lacking the charges were. The whole thing revolved around an apparently failed attempt to help Chelsea Manning crack a CIA password. We still had signifi... |
| May 23, 2019 | WikiLeaks’ Assange charged under the Espionage Act in a ‘major test case’ for press freedom | Julian Assange, founder of whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, has been charged with more than a dozen additional charges by U.S. federal prosecutors, including under the controversial Espionage Act — a case that will likely test the rights of f... |
| May 13, 2019 | US Government Rings Up Another Whistleblower On Espionage Charges | Because our government enjoys punishing people far more than it enjoys accountability, the DOJ is prosecuting another whistleblower. A former language analyst for the Air Force and NSA has been charged with espionage for leaking documents d... |
| Apr 12, 2019 | There Are Many Reasons To Be Concerned About The Impact On Press Freedoms In The Assange Indictment | Yesterday, we wrote a bit about the Julian Assange indictment, noting that it was focused on CFAA and conspiracy arguments, rather than (what many people expected) Espionage Act claims. The CFAA charge of trying to help hack a hashed CIA pa... |
| Mar 8, 2019 | California Attorney General Doubles Down On Threatening Journalists For Possessing Convicted Cops List | California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has decided there’s too much First Amendment in his state. First, he ignored clarification provided directly to him by the author of the state’s new public records law to declare past police miscon... |
| Oct 16, 2018 | FBI Releases Guidelines On Impersonating Journalists, Seems Unworried About Its Impact On Actual Journalists | The FBI’s impersonation of journalists raised questions about its investigative activities, none of which the FBI felt like addressing. An Inspector General’s investigation of FBI investigations using this tactic found that it was generally... |
| Sep 20, 2018 | The DOJ's Rules For Spying On Journalists Get A Bit Flimsy When It Reaches The FISA Court | Back in the spring of 2013, just a month or so before Ed Snowden started revealing all sorts of surveillance shenanigans, there was another important revelation: the Obama DOJ had gone way overboard in spying on journalists, including grabb... |
| Aug 23, 2018 | Trump's Anti-press Rhetoric Is Dangerous, But His Actions Are Worse | In a coordinated response to Trump’s incessant attacks on the press, more than 300 news organizations joined together last week and published editorials about the important role of a free press. |
| Jul 31, 2018 | Court Catches ICE In A Lie As It Tries To Vanish A Mexican Journalist And Immigration Policy Critic | A lot of talk about “bad hombres” and former “shithole” denizens raping, pillaging, and terrorizing their way through our country has led to a lot of beefed-up immigration enforcement. ICE, once just a post-9/11 also-ran relegated to counte... |
| May 25, 2018 | ICE Trying To Deport Journalist For Reporting On Abusive ICE Behavior | For many years (looong before this current administration), we’ve documented the problems with ICE, a government agency that has long been totally out of control, abusing its power and authority not just in dealing with immigration, but in ... |
| Apr 18, 2018 | The Russians Are Coming | The Russians are coming. What are we going to do about it?
A year and a half past the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it’s clear that that we are not paying sufficient attention to Russian efforts in “hybrid warfare.” Such warfare is a com... |
| Mar 8, 2018 | Nevada Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court's Abysmal Ruling On Las Vegas Shooting Coroner's Reports | Prior restraint gets another thumping in court following a truly lousy injunction issued against a Las Vegas newspaper. The Las Vegas Review-Journal requested autopsy reports on victims of the Las Vegas shooting that left 58 dead. The coron... |
| Feb 13, 2018 | Camera Makers Still Showing Zero Interest In Protecting Users With Built-In Encryption | Digital cameras can store a wealth of personal information and yet they’re treated as unworthy of extra protection — both by courts and the camera makers themselves. The encryption that comes baked in on cellphones hasn’t even been offered ... |
| Feb 1, 2018 | Freedom of the Press Foundation will preserve Gawker’s archives | Gawker’s posts will be captured and saved by the non-profit Freedom of the Press Foundation, following a report that venture capitalist Peter Thiel wants to buy its remaining assets, including archived content and domain names. Thiel bankro... |
| Jan 23, 2018 | The Activist Developer Who Helps Journalists Protect Data and Sources | A couple of years ago, a journalist that used SecureDrop, the WikiLeaks-style submission system that allows sources to submit documents anonymously to newsrooms, couldn’t decrypt a file. The journalist asked Harlo Holmes for help.
Holmes, w... |
| Jan 17, 2018 | Shooting The Messenger: Reporter Who Exposed Massive Indian Data Breach Targeted By Law Enforcement | For many years now, we’ve been among those raising concerns about India’s giant identity database known as Aadhaar. A few weeks ago, we wrote that there appeared to be a fairly massive breach of data from that database, and that the informa... |
| Dec 29, 2017 | Edward Snowden's Haven app turns a smartphone into a security device | The name Edward Snowden will always be associated with the NSA, but the man has fingers in many other pies. His latest venture is an app called Haven which can turn a smartphone into a security device that keeps an eye on your possessions.
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| Dec 24, 2017 | Edward Snowden’s new app turns any Android phone into a surveillance system | NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden is among the backers of a new surveillance app that helps guard against computer hijackings.
Haven is an open source app that will run on any Android phone, particularly inexpensive and older devices. It ope... |
| Dec 8, 2017 | A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects 'Mr. Robot' Season 3 Episode 9: 'Stage 3' | It’s the penultimate episode of Mr. Robot’s third season, and the stakes are higher than ever. We discussed Sentinel, keyloggers, RFID readers, pwning the Dark Army, and more. (The chat transcript has been edited for brevity, clarity, and c... |
| Dec 1, 2017 | A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects 'Mr. Robot' Season 3 Episode 8: 'Don’t Delete Me' | Episode 8 of Mr. Robot’s third season was moving and raw, with a heavy dose of pop culture and nostalgia. We discussed steganography, secure deletion, the possibility of time travel, and more. (The chat transcript has been edited for brevit... |
| Nov 10, 2017 | A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects 'Mr. Robot' Season 3 Episode 5: 'Runtime Error' | Episode 5 of Mr. Robot’s third season was a nail-biter. After translating the German quote at the beginning of the show ("Beginning is hard. Beginning is easy. Persistence is an art."), our team of technologists discussed social e... |
| Nov 3, 2017 | A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects 'Mr. Robot' Season 3 Episode 4: 'Metadata' | The hacks continued on the fourth episode of Mr. Robot's third season, giving our group of technologists a chance to discuss metadata, voice protectors, bug detection, IP tracking, Tomcat, Apache Struts, and more. (The chat transcript ... |
| Oct 27, 2017 | A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects 'Mr. Robot' Season 3 Episode 3: 'Legacy' | The third episode of Mr. Robot's third season may have been light on hacks, but our crew of technologists hopped on Keybase group chat to talk baby cams, encryption, and more. (The chat transcript has been edited for brevity and clarit... |
| Aug 7, 2017 | Mozilla’s new file-transfer service isn’t perfect, but it’s drop-dead easy | Enlarge
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| Jun 8, 2017 | Techdirt’s Mike Masnick says lawsuit has already had a chilling effect on his site | Techdirt is currently embroiled in a legal battle with Shiva Ayyadurai, a man who claims to have invented email. But regardless of the outcome, founder and CEO Mike Masnick said that the $15 million lawsuit has already had a big impact on h... |
| Jun 7, 2017 | Snowden Explains How The Espionage Act Unfairly Stacks The Deck Against Reality Winner | There’s been plenty of talk about the rapid arrest of Reality Winner (and, yes, people are still baffled that a real person is named this) and the fact that the tracking dots on printers may have helped track her down (along with the fact t... |
| Feb 15, 2017 | Why DuckDuckGo donated $300,000 to these 16 internet privacy projects | Back in 2011, when DuckDuckGo was a promising three-year-old company, it donated $1,500 to nonprofits focusing on internet privacy.
Boosted by a jump in searches, in 2017 the privacy-geared search engine based out of Paoli, Pa., awarded $30... |
| Jan 23, 2017 | Anonymous search engine DuckDuckGo celebrates over 10 billion searches | A lot of people are more privacy aware than they have been in the past, and are wary of entrusting everything they search for to Google.
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That’s where privacy-focused sites like DuckDuckGo come in. Its growth since it launched ... |
| Dec 17, 2016 | DSLR Camera Encryption: Here Are The Pros And Cons For Photojournalists | Maricris Francisco, Tech Times 17 December 2016, 09:12 am
The media association Freedom of the Press Foundation sent an open letter to camera manufacturers this week, asking companies to build encryption features into their still and video ... |
| Dec 15, 2016 | Photographers And Filmmakers Call For Encryption To Be Built Into Cameras As Standard | Encryption has become one of the key issues in the digital world today, as the many posts here on Techdirt attest. And not just in the tech world, but far beyond, too, as governments grapple with the spread of devices and information that c... |
| Dec 14, 2016 | Photojournalists demand encryption, Light is giving it to them | Against the backdrop of falling bombs in Aleppo, the Freedom of the Press Foundation sent an open letter to executives at major camera companies asking them to take responsibility for the lack of encryption on today’s devices.
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| Oct 14, 2016 | Why Is North Dakota Arresting Journalists For Doing Journalism? | Two years ago, we wrote about the ridiculousness of police arresting reporters for reporting in Ferguson, Missouri, even though courts had told police to knock it off. Even more ridiculous is that those reporters were eventually charged, le... |