Wikileaks

From net neutrality to CarrierIQ to Twitter subpoenas, the battle over digital rights and privacy rages on.

WikiLeaks on Thursday released a broad study of the brisk global trade in surveillance products, which founder Julian Assange claimed exposes a broad risk to peoples' privacy, while also launching a revamped submissions platform.

Carelessness in concealing home IP addresses, servers and Twitter accounts puts the FBI on more hacker doorsteps than any mistake but the most obvious: don't tell people you did it.

Nervous about privacy? Keep biting your fingernails, because the government is using the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act to demand carriers supply information without the bother of a warrant.

WikiLeaks yesterday re-enacted the 9/11 terrorist attacks by re-posting in real time the pager text messages of Pentagon, FBI and FEMA responders that show the confusion, grief and horror as hardened military and emergency responders realize the scope of the tragedy.

At this week's IFA Berlin show, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange defended his decision to release more than 250,000 unredacted US State Department cables. I wonder what he'd say to the families of those who end up jailed or worse because of his recklessness.

It is hard not to be the center of controversy when you're a site like WikiLeaks that specializes in exposing information that was never intended for the general public. The whistleblowing, freedom of the press advocate is in hot water again as it is the victim itself of a breach that exposed US State Department communications that had been leaked to it.

You can park your Lexus next to that Linux over there.

Hacktivist group Anonymous has sworn to track down and punish the source of DDOS attacks against it and WikiLeaks, which is under fire for sudden rush of secret documents with source names that may put whistleblowers in mortal danger.

MasterCard's main website was unavailable for some time on Tuesday as it appeared hackers were again targeting the company for its refusal to process donations for the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks.

Security firm HBGary wants to untarnish its reputation by offering free software. But first you gotta hand them your identity. Do they think we're idiots?