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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Finextra: Bank of America Buys up Abusive Domain Names
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Finextra: Bank of America Buys up Abusive Domain Names
> From the article: B of A has snapped up hundreds of abusive domain names for its senior executives and board members in what is being perceived as a defensive strategy against the future publication of damaging insider info from WikiLeaks.
NY Times: Google’s Next Deal
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NY Times: Google’s Next Deal
> From the article: “Antitrust regulators face a tough decision on whether to allow Google to buy ITA Software, a company that organizes online flight information.”
Freelance Infolabor: Very Affordable Prices
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Counter-branding
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CNET: WikiLeaks app yanked from Apple’s App Store
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CNET: WikiLeaks app yanked from Apple’s App Store
> From the article: “Apple has removed a WikiLeaks app from its App Store just a few short days after its release.”
Washington Post: Monitoring America
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Washington Post: Monitoring America
> From the article: “9yrs after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the U.S. is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, homeland security and military criminal investigators.”
Bail Out Students, Not Banks
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Reuters: Afghanistan plans national electronic ID cards
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Reuters: Afghanistan plans national electronic ID cards
> From the article: “War-torn Afghanistan lacks basic national infrastructure, yet on Sunday the government unveiled plans for a $100 million electronic identification system with cards to be issued to all Afghans within five years.”
Competing Narratives: Internet Freedom, National Security and Social Reproduction
Evgeny Morozov has an excellent post at Foreign Policy that addresses the competing narratives emerging around WikiLeaks. Namely, WikiLeaks as an internet freedom issue vs WikiLeaks as a national security issue. Discussing these narratives in the context of the pro-WikiLeaks … Continue reading
Security: Liabilities, guaranteed.
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WikiLeaks and InfoYouth
Big government collaborates with big business to deny service to WikiLeaks, everyday people get organized and deny those big businesses the ability to offer services . . . and a 16 year-old Dutch kid gets arrested? From Bloomberg News: … … Continue reading
The Gaurdian: Wikileaks under attack: the definitive timeline
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The Gaurdian: Wikileaks under attack: the definitive timeline
> From the article: “Since Wikileaks released the US embassy cables on 28 November it’s come under pressure on several fronts … We list the companies, politicians and organisations making life difficult for Wikileaks and Julian Assange.”
CBS: Is the International Cyberwar over WikiLeaks a Sign of the Future?
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CBS: Is the International Cyberwar over WikiLeaks a Sign of the Future?
> From the article: “the cyberwar over WikiLeaks continues to rage… Governments, organizations and corporations are building cyber-fortresses, and some of the actors are building formal or loose armies of hackers to attack the opposition.”
WikiLeaks/WikiWeapon
Welcome to the informational: where jailbreaking your iPhone is a threat to national security, the global dominance of Goldman Sacks depends on government-based policing of proprietary trading code, and WikiLeaks is a thermonuclear device. From the transcript of Andrew Marr’s … Continue reading