assange
Livestream: Watch Julian Assange's (Potential) Great Escape
h5. ^Will Oliver/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images^ After a bit of waffling, Ecuador has officially "granted Julian Assange asylum":http://betabeat.com/2012/08/ecuador-officially-grants-asylum-to-julian-assange-u-k-promises-to-extradite-him-anyway...
Sentencing Hackers to Death Feels a Little Extreme
Compared to crimes like murder and rape, hacking seems like a relatively minor offense. After all, some geek snooping around on the Internet doesn't really hurt anyone. Sometimes they deface websites. Sometimes they steal credit card numbers. Sometimes...
From Bradley Manning's Facebook Page: Adam Savage's Lecture on Failure
bq. *Adam Savage from MythBusters speaks very frankly at DEFCON about professional failure. Its a good watch, yet it may be a sign the hacker convention is trying to hard to go mainstream (then again, these are probably the only people who would show...
The Disturbing Homophobic Motives Behind Porn Wikileaks
Porn Wikileaks, which quietly launched in December 2010, isn't some kind of benevolent database of information on porn stars, with the hope of making the industry more transparent. It's a wiki mainly devoted to naming and shaming porn stars at high...
Universities Will Get the Wikileaks Treatment
h4. Giving new meaning to the time-honored tradition of "leaking" on the John Harvard statue If Facebook launched a new era of over-sharing on college campuses, UniLeaks, a leak site aimed at institutions of higher learning, brings it all full...