UK Technology Newswire Archive
Darknet - Alternatives for a free inernet away from Facebook
09-03-2012 13:50
With Facebook's clamp down on fake profiles, their demands for phone numbers during registration, and so on, the time has come for activists to look further afield and use more clandestine means of communication for their publishing and planning activities.
Spying and Propaganda Through Social Media
29-02-2012 09:07
A new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies’ (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as “the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection”. IntelNews.org’s Joseph Fitsanakis, who co-authored the study, reports:
We explain that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and a host of other social networking platforms are increasingly viewed by intelligence agencies as invaluable channels of information acquisition. We base our findings on three recent case studies, which we believe highlight the intelligence function of social networking. (Joseph Fitsanakis, Research: Spies increasingly using Facebook, Twitter to gather data, intelNews.org, February 13, 2012)
Anonymous & Antisec Take Down GEO Group
24-02-2012 18:05
Anonymous have struck a blow against the Prison-Industrial Complex and eliminated the online presence of prison for profit scumbags GEO group from the face of the internet...More mistreatment of Australian Aborigines planned
20-02-2012 01:19
The Australian Labor government is planning more assaults on the rights of Aborigines. It plans to extend for another ten years onerous conditions on income quarantining, education, alcohol and land rights. And moves to dump nuclear waste on Aboriginal land have advanced with a deal between government and opposition.The Guardian newspaper funds Huxley’s ‘Children:Our Ultimate Investment'
17-02-2012 17:52
The Guardian newspaper funds Huxley’s ‘Children: Our Ultimate Investment’. 'Children: Our Ultimate Investment' includes 'Project Caressing' which instructs toddlers to be tactile with elderly men. Liability issues ended this in the US, but Laura Huxley's 'Children: Our Ultimate Investment' is doing well in the UK.What is Facebook doing to us?
16-02-2012 22:47
4 Months ago, after years of resisting, I finally joined Facebook for the first time. Half social experiment, half wanting to know what I was missing I concluded that in fact I was right and Facebook is bad news.No TAV - Anonymous hack the website of the prison of Turin Italy
14-02-2012 12:00
Sketchy google translation - After national raids and jailing of people in the mountain battle against the European train link in Italy NO TAV, the hacker group Anonymous shut down the website and replace the official blaa blaa with the following message---ISSE opposes extradition of UK student Richard O’Dwyer
13-02-2012 17:07
On February 7, the International Students for Social Equality held a meeting on campus to oppose the deportation to the United States of Sheffield Hallam University student Richard O’Dwyer.O’Dwyer is facing a maximum 10 years in prison on charges of copyright infringement. The meeting was addressed by Julie Hyland, assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party and attended by a number of students and lecturers.
A second meeting will be held Tuesday, February 21, at 5:30 p.m., to continue the campaign in O’Dwyer’s defence.
Below we publish Hyland’s remarks.
Wall Street Excess and Main Street Distress: the Apple Connection
12-02-2012 01:31
CIA website allegedly hacked by ‘Anonymous’
10-02-2012 23:37
The website of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
http://www.cia.gov/ appeared to be offline Friday afternoon, shortly after a Twitter account associated with the hacker group “Anonymous” announced that it had been taken down. https://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousPress/status/168064051304341504
Mother of Richard O’Dwyer “America is trying to control and police the Internet”
07-02-2012 12:39
SHU Meeting, 7th Feb: Oppose extradition of Richard O’Dwyer to the US!
06-02-2012 23:05
Sheffield Hallam University computer science student Richard O’Dwyer faces extradition to the United States on copyright infringement charges, where he faces five to ten years imprisonment in a US federal jail.Tuesday, February 7, 5:30 p.m.
Sheffield Hallam University Students’ Union
The Fishbowl @ The Hubs
Paternoster Row, S1 2QQ
US drones invade Iraqi skies
06-02-2012 12:38
When is a US troop pullout not a pullout? asks Felicity Arbuthnot.SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, private property and internet monopolies (part 1)
03-02-2012 19:41
Private property: This is what it comes down to.EU May Vote Soon On ACTA (Mother of SOPA)
25-01-2012 19:32
ACTA is the international version of the SOPA/PIPA laws in the US that would seriously restrict Internet freedoms. Under ACTA, information would be copyrightable for the first time, a bold step by the 1% towards the dark side.Pirate Party UK condemns US take-down of MegaUpload
19-01-2012 21:33
The Pirate Party UK and I are alarmed at the US's continued efforts to enforce its excessive and unpopular copyright legislation outside of the USA.Megaupload "international organized criminal enterprise" closed by the FBI
19-01-2012 21:26
(From fbi site) Justice Department Charges Leaders of Megaupload with Widespread Online Copyright InfringementBNP membership list - Leak 2011
08-01-2012 15:08
http://nazi-leaks.net/ published a very recent BNP membership list which has been retrieved in a large-scale hacker attack on fascist webpages at the end of 2011. They could be of interest for U.K. antifa activists. Never again!
HacktionLab - Hacktivist gathering Bradford winter 2012
06-01-2012 20:10
