Tag: Computer security

  • Dissident Voice in Temporary Abeyance

    With the passing of DV editor Angie Tibbs, the password that she had passed on with her. Currently, the DV host server is making it difficult for DV to publish. DV is caught in a catch 22 courtesy of its server which states that a change of contact be made from the email of the […]

  • Warring Against Encryption: Australia is Coming for Your Communications

    On April 16, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, issued with authoritarian glee legal notices to X Corp and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to remove material within 24 hours depicting what her office declared to be “gratuitous or offensive violence with a high degree of impact and detail”.  The relevant material featured a […]

  • By the Dawn’s Early Light

    The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on March 26th was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner” in 1814. His inspiration was the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in the critical port of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The British had just burned the U.S. Capitol and the […]

  • Dotty Domains: The Pentagon’s Mali Typo Leak Affair

    Fleet-footed agility and sharp thinking rarely characterise the plodding bureaucrat.  An argument can be made that different attributes are prized: cherished incompetence, spells of inattentiveness, and dedication to keeping things secret with severity.  What matters is not what you did, but what you pretended to do. Even with maintaining secrecy, the plodding desk-job hack can […]

  • How Chelsea Manning’s Court-Martial Laid the Groundwork for Julian Assange’s Prosecution

    How Chelsea Manning’s Court-Martial Laid the Groundwork for Julian Assange’s Prosecution

    Adapted from Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case against Julian Assange Private First Class Chelsea Manning received the harshest punishment any United States military officer or federal government employee has ever received for leaking classified information to the press. Colonel Denise Lind, the military judge presiding over her court-martial, sentenced Manning to thirty-five years at […]

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