Daily Archives: 12. August 2013


12.08.2013 - 22:42 [ WIRED ]

First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released

After half-a-year of delays and roadblocks, the U.S Secret Service today released the first 104 pages of agency documents about the late coder and activist Aaron Swartz, including a brief report on Swartz’s suicide less than three months before his scheduled trial.

12.08.2013 - 22:37 [ San Diego 6 ]

CIA Director Brennan Confirmed as Reporter Michael Hastings Next Target

Last month a source provided San Diego 6 News with an alarming email hacked from super secret CIA contractor Stratfor’s President Fred Burton. The email (link here) was posted on WikiLeaks and alleged that then Obama counter-terrorism Czar Brennan, was in charge of the government‘s continued crackdown or witch-hunt on investigative journalists.

12.08.2013 - 22:12 [ VICE ]

The Government Wants the Media to Stop Covering Barrett Brown

Barrett Brown has been sitting in prison, without trial, for almost a year. In case you haven’t followed his case, the 31-year-old journalist is facing a century of prison time for sharing a link that contained—within an archive of 5 million emails—credit-card information stolen from a hack of a security company called Stratfor (Jeremy Hammond, the actual hacker, is going to prison for ten years), threatening the family of an FBI officer who raided his mother’s home, and trying to hide his laptops from the Feds.

12.08.2013 - 18:05 [ Muslimbruderschaft ]

Marx’s Lesson for the Muslim Brothers

KARL MARX wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. He had in mind the Revolution of 1848, when a democratic uprising against the French monarchy collapsed into a Bonapartist dictatorship just as the French Revolution had six decades earlier.

12.08.2013 - 16:56 [ Spiegel ]

NSA-Affäre: Deutschland und USA verhandeln über Anti-Spionage-Abkommen

Der Vorsitzende des Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremiums, Thomas Oppermann (SPD), nannte das Angebot der US-Behörden „das gesichtswahrende Zugeständnis der Amerikaner“, dass Ausspähungen in Deutschland oder Europa stattgefunden hätten. Es müsse aber auf Regierungsebene und nicht von den Präsidenten der Geheimdienste ausgehandelt werden.

12.08.2013 - 15:22 [ C3S ]

C3S. Caring for free culture.

Die C3S wird einen neuen, internationalen und vorwiegend am Online-Segment orientierten Markt öffnen. Sie richtet sich an MusikerInnen, die traditionellen Verwertungsgesellschaften nicht beitreten möchten oder können, ohne ihren bevorzugten Weg der Lizenzierung aufzugeben und dennoch Umsätze mit ihren Werken erzielen möchten.

12.08.2013 - 15:21 [ Glenn Greenwald / Guardian ]

Michael Hayden, Bob Schieffer and the media‘s reverence of national security officials

In 2006, the New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for having revealed that the NSA was eavesdropping on Americans without warrants. The reason that was a scandal was because it was illegal under a 30-year-old law that made it a felony, punishable by up to 5 years in prison for each offense, to eavesdrop on Americans without those warrants.

12.08.2013 - 15:20 [ Lars Schall ]

DAS WANDERNDE AUGE: Wlad, der Hammer vs Obama, das Weichei

von Pepe Escobar

Mach nur einen Plan … und mach dann noch ‘nen zweiten Plan, gehn tun sie beide nicht.
Bertolt Brecht

Dies wird langsam lächerlich. Der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten (POTUS) kreischte und schrie, weil er seinen Spion (Edward Snowden) zurück haben wollte. Snowden, russischen Gesetzen folgend, wurde vorübergehend Asyl gewährt. Das Weiße Haus war “enttäuscht”.

12.08.2013 - 15:19 [ 360gigapixels.com ]

Tokyo Tower Gigapixel Panorama

INSANELY high-resolution 360° panoramic photo of Tokyo, shot in September 2012

12.08.2013 - 15:18 [ Techdirt ]

LAPD Detains A Photographer For ‚Interfering‘ With A Police Investigation… From 90 Feet Away

Fortunately (I guess…), law enforcement officials have very vivid imaginations. This allows them to arrest, detain, hassle or confiscate devices as needed, in order preserve the peace by chilling speech.

The latest definition of „interference“ stretches the limits of credulity — to nearly 100 feet.

12.08.2013 - 15:17 [ Techdirt ]

UK Prime Minister Calls ask.fm A ‚Vile Site,‘ Blames It For The Behavior Of Some Vile Users

The impetus for Cameron‘s latest blast is the suicide of a 14-year-old girl who was apparently bullied by other users of teen-heavy social site, ask.fm. And like his earlier attacks on various web entities, triggered by the kidnapping and murder of a 5-year-old girl, Cameron blames the acts of individuals on third parties.