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In this special fund drive episode of Project Censored, Mickey Huff and guests discuss the growing trend toward book bans in U.S. schools, as well as the Trump Administration's attempts to suppress public access to the records of federal agencies. First, we hear about a soon-to-be-released documentary titled Banned Together (www.bannedtogetherdoc.com) that looks at efforts by local school boards, or state-level politicians, to restrict students' access to books. Next, two press-freedom advocates warn that the Trump Administration is engaged in unprecedented, and possibly illegal, efforts to reshuffle how federal agencies' records are kept. Allyson Rice and Dorri Scott are members of the team that created Banned Together. Seth Stern and Lauren Harper are staff members at the Freedom of the Press Foundation (www.freedom.press) To support KPFA's mission, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732.   The post Special Fund Drive Episode : Book Banning / Government Record Keeping appeared first on KPFA.

The New Abnormal hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie are not surprised at Trump's war of words with an American ally just one week into his presidency. Then, Trevor Timm, co-founder and the executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation, joins the show to talk about Joe Biden's press freedom legacy and the threats to those freedoms we face under a second Trump administration. Plus! Journalist and author Jacob Silverman explores the growing influence of Saudi investments in U.S. tech and their ties to the likes of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The news media heading into a second Trump administration is bracing for an assault on the freedom of the press. Trump calls journalists enemies of the people, and he is promising retribution. What's the future of the freedom of the press under Trump? We are joined by Seth Stern, Director of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week's show. In the first half-hour, we hear the story of a Texas prison inmate, his struggle to publicize the abuses that go on behind the walls, and the prison authorities' efforts to suppress his work and retaliate against him. We also discuss the significance of prison journalism in the overall battle for press freedom. In the second half, the latest about Palestine, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). A legal expert examines the recent ICJ opinion on the illegality of the Israeli occupation, as well as the ICC's possible issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Resources on Incarceration: www.securustech.net prisonjournalismproject.org themarshallproject.org GUESTS: Jeremy Busby, inmate #00881193 in the Texas prison system, is a journalist who covers prison life from the inside. His writing can be found at freedom.press and other outlets. His personal web site is www.joinjeremy.org. Seth Stern is Director of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (www.freedom.press). Hassan Ben Imran is a member of the governing council of Law for Palestine (www.law4palestine.org) and a researcher in law at the University of Galway in Ireland.   The post Journalism behind bars / Palestine and international law appeared first on KPFA.

On this week's show: Mickey welcomes Peter Kuznick, Professor of History at American University and best-selling author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States. They discuss the ongoing Russian attacks in Ukraine along with U.S./NATO reactions, as well as U.S. support for Israel's ongoing assaults on Gaza and how close we may be coming to WWIII, if we don't reinvigorate diplomacy and actively promote peace. Then, Mickey welcomes back Director of Advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Seth Stern, to discuss some good news around bipartisan support for the PRESS Act, a much needed shield law for journalists in a time when press freedoms are on the decline in the U.S. and across the globe.   The post Dangerous State of the World: Can Diplomacy Be Reinvigorated? / PRESS Act: Federal Reporter Shield Bill appeared first on KPFA.

When we talk about securing an organisation's assets, we most often mean its data, devices, servers, or accounts, but are we doing enough to secure the group of people leading the company? Or the ones doing high risk work on behalf of the organisation?To discuss the importance of securing high-risk individuals, like journalists, politicians and executives, Robby is joined by an expert in this field, Runa Sandvik, journalist, security researcher and founder of Granitt. At Granitt, Runa works with digital security for journalists and other at-risk people, building on her experiences working at The New York Times, Freedom of the Press Foundation and The Tor Project.During the conversation, they talk about how to secure devices when travelling to high-risk countries, what tools to use and at what time, and how threat actors usually target individuals. Runa also shares how she works to secure accounts and devices for her clients.

Last year, Calumet City cited a Daily Southtown reporter for seeking comment from public employees. That's one out of at least 165 incidents that interfered with journalists seeking and conveying information to the public last year, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. But many violations of press freedom go unreported or under the radar. To mark World Press Freedom Day this week, Reset checked in with Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation, to learn more. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.

Congressman faced criticism over press policy More than four months after barring journalists from his "town hall" constituent forums, Rep. Mike Lawler, whose U.S. House district includes Philipstown, last week abruptly changed course. Lawler, a Republican who took office in January 2023, explained in a Jan. 5 news release that he had instituted the restrictions because he wanted to make the events "as hospitable and welcoming as possible," use them for "hearing directly from constituents with serious questions or concerns," and protect them "from being hijacked by out-of-district political grandstanders." While he claimed in his statement that the ban had only applied to reporters who did not live in the district, the ground rules for a Dec. 17 event at a public school in Westchester County said that "members of the press who are residents of the 17th Congressional District may attend in their capacity as a constituent, not as a member of the press." Lawler introduced the restrictions on Aug. 22, when his staff prevented me from photographing or recording a town hall held inside a Carmel public school. I was able to register and attend the event as a constituent and took notes for a story; Lawler's office later provided photographs. Citing The Current's subsequent coverage, Common Cause New York, which describes itself as a nonpartisan organization that promotes good government, launched a petition urging the public to "tell Congressman Lawler: open your town halls to the press." In addition, the U.S Press Freedom Tracker created by the Freedom of the Press Foundation and the Committee to Protect Journalists listed the Aug. 22 incident in its database of obstacles to news coverage. At Lawler's Dec. 17 town hall, Margaret Yonco-Haines, a Philipstown resident, challenged the ban. At the onset of the town halls, she told Lawler, "many of us were just astonished that you did not allow" media access, even though the events were "financed by the taxpayers and held in a public location" and coverage can tell those who could not be present "what happens" at such meetings. "Why are these not allowed to be covered by the press?" Lawler replied that his town halls were "actually about engaging in conversations," not about having his remarks taken "out of context or mischaracterized." He emphasized his willingness to accept questions and "engage in discussions and debate. I have done more interviews than any member of the New York delegation," he asserted. "So for any reporter to somehow suggest that I'm not available" or willing to talk "is a joke. It's a joke." Although Yonco-Haines questioned Lawler's ban, another attendee on Dec. 17 praised it. The news media "have been pushing back," he told Lawler. "You wouldn't be represented fairly" in coverage. As discussion ensued, Lawler incorrectly claimed that his predecessor, Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat whom Lawler defeated in 2022, "would not go to communities that did not support him or vote for him." In fact, at an outdoor town hall in Carmel in 2021, Maloney drew - and responded to - strident criticism; he similarly fielded hostile questions on other occasions. Sam Silverman, press secretary for Rep. Pat Ryan, a first-term Democrat whose district includes Beacon, said on Wednesday (Jan. 10) that the press is welcome at Ryan's town halls and other public gatherings. "I don't think it's anything we really thought about" until Lawler was criticized, he said. Ryan's office sends out notices about pending events "and the press shows up - or doesn't show up, frankly. I'd like them to show up more." Less than three weeks after his Dec. 17 defense of his ban, Lawler rescinded it. Going forward, he said, "officially credentialed members of the press will be allowed" into town halls with cameras and recording devices, if they register. They do not have to be residents of the district, he added. He also pledged, "at the conclusion of each town hall, and after I have had an opportunity to e...

040 - October 7, 2023 - Wiki PageRich DeMuro talks tech news, tips, gadget reviews and conducts interviews in this weekly show. Airs 11 AM - 2 PM PT on KFI AM 640 and syndicated on stations nationwide through Premiere Networks. Stream live on the iHeartRadio App or subscribe to the podcast.Follow Rich on X, Instagram, Facebook and Threads.Call 1-888-RICH-101 (1-888-742-4101) to join in!RichOnTech.tvRich discusses the new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones, new AI camera features like Best Take and how Google is pledging to support them with updates for 7 years.Michael in Laguna Beach believes he was hacked and wants to make sure he doesn't get hacked again. Rich says to get a new credit card number and sign up for a free credit monitoring through a site like Credit Karma or WalletHub.Mary emailed and asked why the iPhone keeps changing the brightness even when she manually adjusts the slider. You can override this setting by going into Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size and scroll down to Auto-Brightness. Keep in mind this might affect Battery Life.Stephanie Scott, Product Manager at Google, discusses the new Pixel 8 smartphones.Robert in Seal Beach asks when to use a VPN.23andMe says user data was hacked.Apple says iOS 17.0.3 should fix the overheating bugs on the iPhone 15 models.Google says the Pixel Watch 2 smartwatch is a lot better than the first model.Elsa in Playa Del Rey wants an email besides Gmail. Rich says to check out Outlook.com, ProtonMail and iCloud email if you don't mind sticking with Apple ecosystem long term.Amazon Prime Big Deal Days kick off for 48 hours on October 10.Sandeep Waraich, Director, Product Management for Google Wearables, discusses the Pixel Watch 2.Kevin in San Diego says his ex-girlfriend has hacked into his phone. Rich says to remove any unknown Apple devices on your account, change his Apple ID password, set up two factor authentication and then format the phone and reinstall everything manually. Also, log out of all active sessions on your various accounts like Google and Facebook.Google has introduced the Chromebook Plus designation as a standard for Chromebooks with higher end specs.Jim in Costa Mesa wants to know the advantage of Android vs iOS.Samsung introduced three lower priced alternatives to it's flagship products: the S23 FE, Galaxy Tab S9 FE and the Galaxy Buds FE. FE stands for Fan Edition, these products pack many top-tier features at a lower price point than their flagship products. They also come in fun colors.Sam Rubin, KTLA Entertainment anchor, discusses his experience seeing U2 at the Las Vegas Sphere.David Huerta, senior digital security trainer at Freedom of the Press Foundation, explains how to pick the best VPN. He recommends TunnelBear, Mullvad and iVPN.Ring is giving away $1 million dollars if you capture an extraterrestrial on your video camera.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trevor Timm of the Freedom of the Press Foundation joins the show to give an overview of the U.S.'s case against Julian Assange. They look back at why Obama was uncharacteristically reluctant to charge Assange. That brings them to the current case, brought by the Trump Administration and continued by Biden. They explain the case, debunk the common characterization of Assange as a hacker and finish with a quick look at why Australian officials may be the best chance for an Assange pardon.  Discussed on the show: “Prosecuting Assange threatens press freedom. US officials should not need the Australians to explain that to them” (Freedom of the Press Foundation) Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and lawyer whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, and many others. Follow him on Twitter @trevortimm. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott's interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Download Episode. Trevor Timm of the Freedom of the Press Foundation joins the show to give an overview of the U.S.'s case against Julian Assange. They look back at why Obama was uncharacteristically reluctant to charge Assange. That brings them to the current case, brought by the Trump Administration and continued by Biden. They explain the case, debunk the common characterization of Assange as a hacker and finish with a quick look at why Australian officials may be the best chance for an Assange pardon.  Discussed on the show: “Prosecuting Assange threatens press freedom. US officials should not need the Australians to explain that to them” (Freedom of the Press Foundation) Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and lawyer whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, and many others. Follow him on Twitter @trevortimm. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott's interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY

On this week's episode of The New Abnormal, MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner talks about Donald Trump's latest legal challenges. Then a talk with Freedom of the Press Foundation executive director Trevor Timm about how the U.S. trying Julian Assange under the Espionage Act may prove to be a regrettable decision if Trump is elected president again.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Earlier this month, there was big trouble in little Marion, Kansas, where an entire police department raided the offices of the Marion County Record, a small, family-owned newspaper about 60 miles north of Wichita, with seven employees and a circulation of about 4,000. To discuss this alarming violation of press freedom, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Caitlin Vogus, Deputy Director of Advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They talked about what motivated the raid, how it went down, and the chilling effect this kind of thing can have on small town newspapers and big media organizations alike. They also discussed what journalists—from lone freelancers to sizable newsrooms—can do to protect themselves from all manner of press freedom violations. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we discuss press freedom in the U.S. in the wake of a police raid of the local paper in Marion, Kansas. In that raid, officers confiscated most of the paper's computers and other equipment, leaving its journalists scrambling to be able to publish. Press freedom advocates have criticized Marion's police chief for using tactics generally seen in authoritarian countries. But there are concerns over other incidents across the country designed to intimidate and silence journalists. My guests are: Kirstin McCudden, Vice President of Editorial at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and managing editor of the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker -AND- Seth Stern, Director of Advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Find resources and guides to protect your privacy and security at Freedom.Press - and see the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker at PressFreedomTracker.US   Image Courtesy U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, led by the Freedom of the Press Foundation and the Committee to Protect Journalists, in collaboration with leading press freedom groups.

Note: This podcast episode was recorded BEFORE the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decisions on the crucial online free expression cases: Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh. Nevertheless, we've chosen to release this episode NOW because the conversation contains important information about the potential risks to users' free speech that is more relevant than ever. While the legal landscape may have shifted since this recording, the principles of protecting free expression and fostering an open and inclusive digital environment are not going away. In the Gonzalez and Taamneh opinions, the Supreme Court dodged any detailed consideration of Section 230 or the role of recommendation algorithms in enabling access to online speech, but we can expect that those topics will be back before the Court before long. So, let's dive into this discussion and keep advocating for the preservation of free speech in the online world. The Center for Democracy & Technology – along with six other technologists with expertise in online recommendation systems – filed an amicus brief in the case of Gonzalez v. Google. The brief urges the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that Section 230's liability shield applies to claims against interactive computer service providers based on their recommendation of third-party content, because those claims treat providers as publishers. Here to talk a little bit about the amicus brief is Jonathan Stray, Senior Scientist at the Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI and Caitlin Vogus, (former) Deputy Director of CDT's Free Expression Project (currently Deputy Director of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation). More on our host, Jamal: bit.ly/cdtjamal More on Caitlin: cdt.org/staff/caitlin-vogus/ More on Jonathan: jonathanstray.com/me (CDT relies on the generosity of donors like you. If you enjoyed this episode of Tech Talk, you can support it and our work at CDT by going to cdt.org/techtalk. Thank you for putting democracy and individual rights at the center of the digital revolution.) Attribution: sounds used from Psykophobia, Taira Komori, BenKoning, Zabuhailo, bloomypetal, guitarguy1985, bmusic92, and offthesky of freesound.org.

Kirstin McCudden discusses Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves.  FPF is a nonprofit founded in 2012 to support free speech and free press […] The post Freedom of the Press Foundation works to improve news and democracy appeared first on KKFI.

Micah Lee, a computer security engineer who develops technology to protect whistleblowers, gives his unique thoughts in this episode. He shares why he believes whistleblowers are important to our democracy and how the Espionage Act of 1917 reveals the imbalance in the American justice system. MICAH LEE - BIO Micah Lee is First Look Media's Director of Information Security. He is a computer security engineer and an open-source software developer who writes about technical topics like digital and operational security, encryption tools, whistleblowing, and hacking using language that everyone can understand without dumbing it down. He develops security and privacy tools such as OnionShare, Dangerzone, and semiphemeral. Before joining The Intercept, he worked as a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he explained how technologies work to journalists and lawyers, and worked to encrypt the web. He is a founder and former board member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a member of the Distributed Denial of Secrets advisory board, and a Tor Project core contributor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eva Galperin has been referred to as a “Hacker Hero.” She is the Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and technical advisor for the Freedom of the Press Foundation. She is the Cofounder of @stopstalkerware. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Journalists Trevor Timm and Kevin Gosztola explore why Reality's case highlights a larger conversation about why freedom of the press is essential to democracy, connecting the dots with Russia's war on Ukraine. Visit bpn.fm/ThisIsReality for more info, to sign Reality's petition for clemency, and to get tickets to any productions of Is This A Room. Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and legal analyst whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Harvard Law and Policy Review, and Politico. He also writes a column on press freedom for Columbia Journalism Review. Trevor formerly worked as an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Before that, he helped the longtime General Counsel of The New York Times, James Goodale, write a book on the Pentagon Papers and the First Amendment. He received his J.D. from New York Law School. In 2013, he received the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for journalism. Trevor is also the co-founder of the Stand With Reality campaign, which is raising money for Winner's legal defense and awareness about the Espionage Act's use against the sources of journalists. Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof Press. He publishes the Dissenter Newsletter at Substack and hosts "The Dissenter Weekly" show, which covers whistleblower stories. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, Unauthorized Disclosure.  Alison Grinter Allen is a Board Certified Criminal Defense Attorney and executive director of Legal Access Texas, an access to justice non-profit organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Journalists Trevor Timm and Kevin Gosztola explore why Reality's case highlights a larger conversation about why freedom of the press is essential to democracy. Reality's lawyer Alison Grinter Allen adds a legal perspective. Visit bpn.fm/ThisIsReality for more info, to sign Reality's petition for clemency, and to get tickets to any productions of Is This A Room. Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and legal analyst whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Harvard Law and Policy Review, and Politico. He also writes a column on press freedom for Columbia Journalism Review. Trevor formerly worked as an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Before that, he helped the longtime General Counsel of The New York Times, James Goodale, write a book on the Pentagon Papers and the First Amendment. He received his J.D. from New York Law School. In 2013, he received the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for journalism. Trevor is also the co-founder of the Stand With Reality campaign, which is raising money for Winner's legal defense and awareness about the Espionage Act's use against the sources of journalists. Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof Press. He publishes the Dissenter Newsletter at Substack and hosts "The Dissenter Weekly" show, which covers whistleblower stories. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, Unauthorized Disclosure.  Alison Grinter Allen is a Board Certified Criminal Defense Attorney and executive director of Legal Access Texas, an access to justice non-profit organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guests are defense witness Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation; Shadowproof managing editor Kevin Gosztola, who is receiving wide praise for his live tweeting of the courtroom action; Stefania Maurizi, the Italian journalist who has partnered with WikiLeaks to publish some of its biggest releases, and whose freedom of information requests exposed corruption surrounding the Swedish process against Asssange; by Alexander Mercouris, a British legal analyst with particular insights into the UK justice system; and by internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, a personal friend of Julian Assange.  Like Consortium News, both Gosztola and Maurizi have been monitoring every moment of the trial via remote video access.

Guests Lucie Wu | Saptak | Sadie Panelists Eriol Fox | Kelsey Smith Transcript We have a transcript for this episode: here (https://github.com/simplysecure/designer-developer-collaboration-in-OSS/blob/main/In-conversation-with-designers-and-developers-in-OSS-for-SOS-podcast.md). Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain Open Source Design! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source with design. Learn how we, as designers, interface with open source in a sustainable way, how we integrate into different communities, and how we as coders, work with other designers. Today, with Eriol, we have Kelsey Smith hosting as well, who is a UX Designer at Simply Secure. We are very excited to have three guests joining us from different projects. Joining us are Lucie, who is working on I2P (Invisible Internet Project) as a UX Designer and researcher, Saptak is a Human Rights Concerned Web Developer, working as a contractor with Freedom of the Press Foundation, and Sadie, works on I2P, putting together the Usability Lab, and her work focus is on UX, design, and open source tools. Our discussions today are focused on the collaboration between designers and developers in open source software, and we learn more how these two functions interact with each other, and challenges they faced doing this collaboration work. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out more! [00:03:00] Eriol starts off by asking our guests how design, developer handoff, or collaboration work in their teams and projects, and how it got to be that way in their projects. [00:06:14] Sadie tells us what it's like to be this bridge between design and development and how it's a little bit more developer led at the moment. [00:09:50] Saptak fills us in on projects he works in and how design, developer handoff, and collaboration work in the projects he is a part of. [00:15:41] Eriol wonders if there are other challenges that our guests have faced in doing this collaboration work, and to share examples of good processes and not so good processes. [00:20:02] Lucie explains her process of doing design around something that might have interesting, complicated, or unknown parts of the process that she might need to discover through conversation with the developers or technical teams. [00:23:17] Sadie explains more how she facilitates conversations between the design and developer. [00:25:52] Kelsey asks Saptak what he would like designers to know about the dev processes specifically in this space versus other spaces, and he tells us about a tool that he's found to be really helpful with developers and designers called Accessibility Bluelines. [00:31:39] Sadie geos more in depth about design practices, security, and human rights. [00:35:41] Lucie talks about the differences she has noticed with the collaboration process for developers and designers within open source compared to private software projects. [00:38:41] Find out where you can follow Saptak, Sadie, and Lucie online. Also, Kelsey talks about a project they are working on called Useful Projects. Quotes [00:04:11] “It really helps to have a little bit of knowledge of the technical aspect in order to design effectively.” [00:05:25] “On our team specifically, Sadie has served as a bridge between design and development.” [00:22:13] “That has been a part of the process of constantly reframing the question, drilling down to what you really want to know in order to do the design, because I don't need to know all of the extraneous information that goes on the technical and developer side. I just need to know enough to do the design.” [00:32:50] “Adding more definition and having better processes within the new user onboarding to encompass some of those philosophies behind open source, and why we have those things in place is very important.” [00:36:11] “One of the companies I was at was IBM, and two things really stand out to me on the differences between open source and private, and they are capacity and hierarchy.” Links Open Source Design Twitter (https://twitter.com/opensrcdesign) Open Source Design (https://opensourcedesign.net/) Sustain Design & UX working group (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/design-ux-working-group/348) Sustain Open Source Twitter (https://twitter.com/sustainoss?lang=en) Richard Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Eriol Fox Twitter (https://twitter.com/EriolDoesDesign?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Eriol Fox-Simply Secure (https://simplysecure.org/who-we-are/eriol-fox/) Kelsey Smith-Simply Secure (https://simplysecure.org/who-we-are/kelsey/) Saptak Sengupta Website (https://saptaks.website/) Saptak Sengupta Twitter (https://twitter.com/Saptak013) Sadie Twitter (https://twitter.com/yrb1rd) Sadie GItHub (https://github.com/Shoalsteed) I2P (https://geti2p.net/en/) I2P Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@i2p) I2P Twitter (https://twitter.com/i2p) Lucie Wu Website (https://luwuxu.com/) USABLE Tools (https://usable.tools/) Accessibility Bluelines (https://dribbble.com/shots/6269661-Accessibility-Bluelines) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guests: Lucie Wu, Sadie, and Saptak.

Welcome to the cryptohunt jam where we spend one minute a day to explain crypto. In plain english. Today: Let's look at some examples of NFTs that sold for millions and speculate why. One to make mainstream media news was a digital collage called “Everydays: the First 5000 Days”. Interestingly sold by old-school auction house Christie's, this piece by digital artist Beeple went for almost 70 million dollars. Beeple, whose real name is Mike Winkelmann, has since sold a few more NFTs for millions each. He is a well known artist and star in the NFT world, and thus his pieces have become highly collectible. Beeple is bullish on NFTs. He believes artwork will be consumed entirely on screens and NFTs are ideally suited for that. Now a completely different example: Charity auctions. Edward Snowden's “Stay Free” sold for about $5.5 million. It is an image showing the text of a court decision ruling that the NSA's mass surveillance violated the law. So what makes that artwork so valuable? People's willingness to give to a charitable cause. Whistleblower Snowden didn't pocket the money himself, but gave it to the Freedom of the Press Foundation, of which he is the president. And - yes, we've talked about them before - we can't end without mentioning those cryptopunks again. With current offers reaching over a 100 million dollars on some, they are one of the most prolific NFT collections ever, attracting speculators who can afford them. Listen to our previous podcast for more details on those. We hope those examples illustrate a few reasons that NFTs change hands for a lot of money. And tomorrow we talk about why there are so many different cryptocurrencies and tokens out there instead of just one or two. Disclaimer: This podcast references our opinion and is for information purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Do your own research and seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cryptohunt/message

VPNs are often considered an essential part of your toolkit if you want to live a modern, privacy-conscious lifestyle... but most computer security experts will tell you that they're not tools for privacy AT ALL!When you use a consumer VPN, the VPN company is able to see everything you're doing. Many log and even sell all of your data. And even if they promise not to, it's difficult to verify.But that doesn't mean we need to avoid commercial VPNs altogether -- there can be good reasons to use one.For example, if you're on public wifi at an airport or coffee shop, or if you want to spoof your location.But not all VPNs are created equally, and a big piece of evaluating a VPN provider is understanding how they make their money and how responsibly they handle data.In this video, I go over how VPNs work, when to use them, and criteria for choosing a good one.00:00 - Intro01:04 - How VPNs Work01:14 - Why use a VPN?03:10 - Criteria for a VPN08:04 - Recommended VPNsVPNs do have their place in your privacy toolkit - just make sure you are using them correctly!Brought to you by NBTV members: Lee Rennie, Will Sandoval, and Naomi BrockwellTo make a tax-deductible (in the US) donation to NBTV, visit https://www.nbtv.media/supportSign up for the free CryptoBeat newsletter here:https://cryptobeat.substack.com/Beware of scammers, I will never give you a phone number or reach out to you with investment advice. I do not give investment advice.Visit the NBTV website:https://nbtv.mediaFor more information about VPNs, read this in depth guide from Freedom of the Press Foundation: https://freedom.press/training/choosing-a-vpn/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/naomibrockwell)

Did you know that when you share a photo online, you might be revealing the exact location of your home? Or that when you print a document, there are hidden dots on the page that reveal the exact printer the document came from?Metadata is data about data. It's attached to EVERY digital artifact, and when you share a digital file, you're probably revealing a lot more information than intended. How do you find this metadata and erase it? We'll teach you in this video.00:00 - Intro01:26 - What is Metadata?02:29 - Why is this important?04:28 - How to Find Metadata04:49 - How to Scrub Metadata (Easy)06:55 - How to Scrub Metadata (Deep Dive)07:47 - Other Digital ArtifactsHuge THANK YOU to David Huerta and the Freedom of the Press Foundation for their  insight!You can read more about metadata from their training guides:https://freedom.press/training/redacting-photos-on-the-go/https://freedom.press/training/everything-you-wanted-know-about-media-metadata-were-afraid-ask/Written by Will Sandoval and Naomi BrockwellEdited by Lee RennieTo make a tax-deductible (in the US) donation to my channel, visit https://cointr.ee/nbtvSign up for the free cryptobeat newsletter here:https://cryptobeat.substack.com/Beware of scammers, I will never give you a phone number or reach out to you with investment advice. I do not give investment advice.Visit the NBTV website:https://nbtv.mediaSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/naomibrockwell)

Did you know that when you share a photo online, you might be revealing the exact location of your home? Or that when you print a document, there are hidden dots on the page that reveal the exact printer the document came from? Metadata is data about data. It's attached to EVERY digital artifact, and when you share a digital file, you're probably revealing a lot more information than intended. How do you find this metadata and erase it? We'll teach you in this video. 01:26 - What is Metadata? 02:29 - Why is this important? 04:28 - How to Find Metadata 04:49 - How to Scrub Metadata (Easy) 06:55 - How to Scrub Metadata (Deep Dive) 07:47 - Other Digital Artifacts Huge THANK YOU to David Huerta and the Freedom of the Press Foundation for their insight! You can read more about metadata from their training guides: https://freedom.press/training/redact... https://freedom.press/training/everyt... Written by Will Sandoval and Naomi Brockwell Edited by Lee Rennie To make a tax-deductible (in the US) donation to my channel, visit https://cointr.ee/nbtv Sign up for the free cryptobeat newsletter here: https://cryptobeat.substack.com/ Beware of scammers, I will never give you a phone number or reach out to you with investment advice. I do not give investment advice. Visit the NBTV website: https://nbtv.media

I samband med höstens lansering av IOS 15 och Mac OS Monterey gör Apple en storsatsning på att skydda utsatta barn. Meddelandeappen kommer att kunna varna barn ifall någon skickar bilder med sexuellt innehåll till dem. Appen kommer också att kunna varna föräldrarna ifall en pedofil försöker lura barnet att skicka nakenbilder. För att stoppa spridningen av kända barnpornografiska bilder kommer Apple även att skanna alla bilder som laddas upp till deras molntjänst Icloud. Detta tilltag har orsakat en kraftig motreaktion på grund av dess integritetspåverkan. Edward Snowden, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Freedom of Press Foundation och många därtill har varnat för konsekvenserna som tekniken kan få. Av rädsla för hur tekniken kan missbrukas har de undertecknat ett brev där de kräver att Apple omedelbart stoppar planerna. I veckans podd förklarar Tess och Nikka hur tekniken bakom Apples satsning fungerar. De reder ut förvirringen som har rått kring hur vad den egentligen gör och exemplifierar vilka risker som den medför. Nikka berättar också varför han själv är rädd för tekniken… och varför han tror att det redan är för sent att stoppa den. Se fullständiga shownotes på https://go.nikkasystems.com/podd130.

Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder for Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Peace, joins us to discuss the Biden-Putin summit. President Putin hailed the summit as a success and advised that the two nations will be sending their respective ambassadors back to service. Also, in his latest antiwar.com article, Ray Mcgovern argues that the summit accomplished baby steps but was overall blah and uneventful.Daniel Lazare, investigative journalist and author of The Velvet Coup, joins us to discuss the Senate's possible upcoming vote on the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF). Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has expressed his support for repealing the 2002 AUMF, and says that he expects to be in a position to call for a vote soon. The call to re-examine the AUMF began in February when President Biden opened his foreign policy agenda by illegally bombing Syria.Gerald Horne, professor of history at the University of Houston, author, historian, and researcher, joins us to discuss President Biden's comments about election interference. In his post-summit press conference, President Biden stated, "How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries, and everybody knew it?" Our guest discusses the plausibility of that statement and reviews the history of US interventions in elections and regime change.Dr. Linwood Tauheed, associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, joins us to discuss the strategic partnership between Russia and China. Dmitry Rogozin, the CEO of Russia's Roscosmos corporation, advised that Russia has worked with China on their space program. Rogozin stated that "China is implementing its space program with Russia's support." Also, China and Russia have announced that they are working together on a lunar station and they are welcoming international partners.Ted Rall, political cartoonist and syndicated columnist, joins us to discuss the reaction of former presidents to the Geneva summit. Hillary Clinton has returned to the media claiming that President Biden is cleaning up President Trump's mess regarding Russia. Meanwhile, President Trump is taking a page from the Democrat's book by criticizing President Biden for not being tough enough on Russia. Scott Ritter, former UN weapon Inspector in Iraq, joins us to discuss China. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has directed the military to "bolster deterrence" against China. Also, a recent poll shows that white Americans are more likely to support war with China than people of color.Jim Kavanaugh, joins us to discuss Julian Assange. Trevor Timm, the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, has penned an article on Consortium News in which he discusses the attempt by the Biden administration to criminalize news gathering in the case against Julian Assange. Also, Boris Johnson has been railing about the free media while he supports the persecution of Assange. Dan Kovalik, writer, author,and lawyer, joins us to discuss South American politics. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), the chair of the powerful House Rules Committee, has sent a letter to President Biden requesting that he end the deadly sanctions on Venezuela. Also, observers argue that the landmark victory of Pedro Castillo in Peru will usher in a new era ending years of neoliberal rule by con-artists and robber barons.

In this episode of Hack Chat, we dig deep into privacy and Runa’s passion for cybersecurity and what drives her today. Runa Sandvik focuses on defense, contextual mitigations for at-risk groups, and innovative solutions for journalistic security. Her work builds upon experience from her time at The Tor Project, Freedom of the Press Foundation, The New York Times, and working closely with freelancers around the world. Learn more about Hack Chat: https://www.sentinelone.com/lp/hackchat Learn more about SentinelOne: https://www.sentinelone.com

In this episode of Hack Chat, Eva discusses how she started in cybersecurity as well as tracking actors while pitching AV companies to alert users of security threats of stalkerware. Eva Galperin is the Director of Cybersecurity at the EFF and technical advisor for the Freedom of the Press Foundation. She is noted for her extensive work in protecting global privacy and free speech and for her research on malware and nation-state spyware Learn more about Hack Chat: https://www.sentinelone.com/lp/hackchat Learn more about SentinelOne: https://www.sentinelone.com

After another bad attempt to record a professional intro we talk all about supply chains first Apples then cheese. John Verdi  from the Future of Privacy Forum joins us for a second time to discuss everything from biometrics, to virtual and augmented reality.Yesterday was World Press Freedom Day and the launch of our new partnership with the Freedom of the Press Foundation. We announced that we'll be supporting the nonprofit by matching donations made during their latest fundraiser. It builds on our 1Password for Journalism initiative, which allows any reporter to use our password manager for free.Going further to support journalists on World Press Freedom Day

Dr. Colin Campbell, a Washington, DC, news correspondent, joins us to discuss the second impeachment trial of former US President Donald Trump. Trump's legal team has indicated they intend to employ the strategy of posing big constitutional questions. The attorneys will argue that the impeachment procedures are unconstitutional because the former president is no longer in office, and that the speech he made on January 6th was protected under the First Amendment. Steve Poikonen, a national organizer for the Action 4 Assange group, joins us to discuss the plight of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A coalition of organizations, headlined by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch, sent a letter to the US Department of Justice requesting they drop all charges and stop the attempt to extradite the beleaguered journalist to the US. Parker Higgins, who serves as the advocacy director at Freedom of the Press Foundation, has called the charges against Assange "among the most disastrous press freedom issues in the country." Wyatt Reed, a Sputnik News analyst and producer for Radio Sputnik's By Any Means Necessary, joins us to discuss the Ecuador elections. Anti-IMF candidate Andrés Arauz won the top spot in the first round of the Ecuadorian elections by a wide margin, as other candidates scramble to see who won a tight second-place finish. Also, a long history of illegal coups and election meddling has many in the global south concerned the US and its European allies may try to tilt the process towards the neoliberal challengers. Taylor Hudak, editor of Activism Munich and co-founder of Action 4 Assange, joins us to discuss a new social media platform that is in the making. In light of the recent increase of online censorship, a consortium of advocates and technical experts have come together to create a social media platform called "panquake" that will be minimally censored. The project will use blockchain technology and will strive to minimize intrusion into the experience of users. Dr. Yolandra Hancock, a board-certified pediatrician and obesity medicine specialist, joins us to discuss the World Health Organization's investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus. An ongoing investigation has so far determined that "the introduction through an intermediary host species is the most likely pathway and one that will require more studies and more specific targeted research.” The Trump administration had long claimed that China was at fault and implied that COVID-19 was either the result of an intentional act or gross negligence. Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, joins us to discuss the Biden administration's latest foreign policy maneuvers. The Biden team has taken dramatic steps which appear to increase the chance of an act of intentional human extinction. The Pentagon has moved strategic bombers to Norway in an act that is intended to threaten Russia with a nuclear attack. Meanwhile, the head of US strategic command has stated that a nuclear confrontation with China, an act that would almost assuredly end nearly all life on earth, is a distinct possibility. Laith Marouf, a broadcaster and journalist based in Beirut, Lebanon, joins us to discuss US policy in Syria. Multiple outlets are reporting that the US is sending more troops to Syria, as the Pentagon argues troops in the oil-producing regions of Syria are not there to "protect" the oil. Also, in a continuation of the Trump administration's policy, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has endorsed Israel's illegal occupation of the Golan Heights region of Syria, arguing it is necessary for Israel's security. Dan Kovalik, a labor and human rights lawyer, professor, and author, joins us to discuss Iran. The Biden foreign policy team is continuing the foreign policies of the Trump administration regarding the Iran nuclear deal. While Iran's position that the US left the deal and has the responsibility to re-enter it without changes is hard to dispute, the US is moving further away from that stance and seems to be realigned with the Iran policies of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Elliott Abrams, who served as Trump's special representative for Iran and Venezuela.

The request for extradition to the United States of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, was denied by a UK judge.This is fantastic news, because the US wants to put Assange on trial basically for being an investigative journalist. The indictment from the DOJ against Assange is one of the single biggest threats to freedom of the press of the last decade. I explain in detail what it all means.But the judge didn't deny the extradition request based on freedom of the press, it was based on Assange's mental condition. The danger of journalists being persecuted for challenging power is greater than ever. What happens to us when no dissent from the press against government is allowed anymore? Huge shout out to Glenn Greenwald, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and journalists like Richard Medhurst and Kevin Gosztola who have been  covering this case in detail and are staunch advocates of freedom of the press.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/naomibrockwell)

https://youtu.be/1vD_O8dqQrU https://lbry.tv/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Assange-Extradition-DENIED-BUT-Its-No-Win-for-Freedom-of-the-Press:2?r=FDreZsjE2C4VBDAr8tVX1a56tJRe5Hpq The request for extradition to the United States of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, was denied by a UK judge. This is fantastic news, because the US wants to put Assange on trial basically for being an investigative journalist. The indictment from the DOJ against Assange is one of the single biggest threats to freedom of the press of the last decade. I explain in detail what it all means. But the judge didn’t deny the extradition request based on freedom of the press, it was based on Assange's mental condition. The danger of journalists being persecuted for challenging power is greater than ever. What happens to us when no dissent from the press against government is allowed anymore? Huge shout out to Glenn Greenwald, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and journalists like Richard Medhurst and Kevin Gosztola who have been covering this case in detail and are staunch advocates of freedom of the press. If you would like to send me a message and support my channel, visit https://cointr.ee/naomibrockwell Sign up for the members-only newsletter here and get access to exclusive content by becoming a member of NBTV! https://Naomibrockwell.com/memberships Sign up for the free cryptobeat newsletter here: https://Naomibrockwell.com/cryptobeat Here are some books I loved. Using these links helps support the channel and future videos! Permanent Record - Edward Snowden https://amzn.to/305negc No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State - Glenn Greenwald https://amzn.to/2UQmJ4m

In this episode of The Gate 15 Interview, Andy Jabbour enjoys a really fun talk with Runa Sandvik and Brad Barkett, two security veterans both with considerable experience working to secure media at some of America's most well-known papers. In this podcast we discuss: 2020 and the cyber threat environment The threats facing media today The role of media in security What we might anticipate in the new year Among other topics! Runa and Brad share some candid perspective, and a few fun tidbits about themselves in this year-end discussion on the cyber threat environment, security issues, and the media. Please enjoy this episode of The Gate 15 Interview on Anchor, Apple, Spotify, as well as other locations. Runa Sandvik: Runa is a senior security researcher with years of experience in security and information sharing. Today, Runa works on digital security for journalists and other high-risk people. Her work builds upon experience from her time at The New York Times, Freedom of the Press Foundation, and The Tor Project. She is a board member of the Norwegian Online News Association, and tweets as @runasand. Brad Barkett: Brad a 20 year security veteran, and has been working as a security architect for the Washington Post since 2015, with a background in telecoms, MSS, IDS, DDOS, firewalls, proxies. Currently , Brad has a preference for social topics like cyber anti-personnel, disinfo, OSINT, threat intel, social psychology, and social engineering. Long standing hobby interests include synthesis and electronic music, and more recently, being a relatively middling 40+ amateur folkstyle wrestler and nogi jiu-jitsu player. Brad has two brothers, Mike and JJ, who are also security professionals. A few references mentioned in our discussion include: ·  Ford Foundation Cybersecurity Assessment Tool. ·  Freedom of the Press Foundation ·  A new report from the Freedom of the Press Foundation: A record breaking number of journalists arrested in the U.S. this year ·  Updating how we think about security, INFILTRATE 2018, by Matt Tait

The first batch of coronavirus vaccines are arriving throughout California, with some 15,000 doses coming to Sacramento. And while the county's Health Services director position will be vacant soon in this deeply important moment, there is already a community push for public health officer Dr Olivia Kasirye to take the position. The debate over defunding the police continues through the coronavirus pandemic, but the city of Sacramento appears to have already made up its mind, increasing the police force despite signs of decreased revenue in the coming years. All of this is happening in the backdrop of the Sacramento Police Department continuing its weekly practice of protecting fascist Proud Boys against anti-fascist counter-demonstrators, while targeting mutual aid groups such as Queers United in Community Care. The day after the weekend's demonstrations, police shot and killed a man experiencing a mental health crisis. On their Facebook page, they posted a picture of a bloody knife to defend their behavior. Meanwhile, law enforcement continue to harass and assault independent media. On a national level, the Freedom of the Press Foundation noted a 1,200% increase in police arresting journalists this year.   Oh, and if you're curious about what we're looking at in the intro, follow this link.   Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @guillotine4you, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune And thank you to Be Brave Bold Robot for the tunes.

This week we look at the intersection between journalism, freedom of the press, and technology. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Harlo Holmes, Director of Digital Security at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They discuss the role of journalism in a free society, the contemporary media landscape, the Snowden revelations, surveillance, the role of technology and privacy, the political implications of technology development, and best practices for whistleblowers. Links: Freedom of the Press Foundation Website (https://freedom.press/) Freedom of the Press Foundation Twitter (https://twitter.com/FreedomofPress) Press Freedom Tracker (https://pressfreedomtracker.us/) Highlights: 0:40 - Intro to Holmes and FPF 03:30 - Edward Snowden’s impact 09:08 - Journalism’s role in a free society 11:43 - The change in media today 16:31 - Technology’s role in journalism 19:27 - How to use technology without being exploited 23:27 - The influence that programmers have 29:42 - Blockchain experiments 34:42 - Best practices for whistleblowers Key Quotes: “Journalism’s role in society is as old as the printing press itself…. People have the right to know what’s going on. You can’t make informed decisions if you don’t know what’s going on.” “Certain media sources are more skewed towards obfuscating rather than illuminating, and there has always been a challenge for individuals to find news sources that they can trust.” “Historians will look at the rise of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter as a turning point in the way that the media has had to reevaluate its reach, reevaluate its funding model, and reevaluate how it presents itself to the public at large in order to secure its reach. This is quite a shift in the material of media itself.” “People don’t necessarily realize that because the more digital aspects of our engagement are incredibly easy to parse, that opens us up to being entirely surveilled very easily and automatically” “You have a profile, everybody is profiled based off their patterns of behavior on the internet however they interact with it, and you pretty much don’t live a day in your existence without interacting and without contributing to this profile.” Special Guest: Harlo Holmes.

Trevor Timm is back with an update on Julian Assange’s extradition hearing. Timm was a witness for the defense, where he argued against the idea that what Assange and WikiLeaks do is categorically different than the activity of other journalists. The prosecution has argued that Assange’s solicitation of classified documents amounts to collaboration in an illegal activity—Timm explained that this is no different whatsoever from what any mainstream journalistic outlet does. Just because some people don’t consider Assange to be a journalist, that has nothing to do with his legal status when it comes to America’s first amendment. Discussed on the show: “Trump’s ‘War On Journalism’ Takes Center Stage At Julian Assange’s Extradition Hearing” (Shadowproof) The Assange Court Report Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and lawyer whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, and many others. Follow him on Twitter @trevortimm. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com. Donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal, or Bitcoin: 1Ct2FmcGrAGX56RnDtN9HncYghXfvF2GAh.

Former CIA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden shocked the world when he revealed the misdeeds of the US intelligence community and its allies. Now living in Russia, he is a noted privacy advocate and author who serves as president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. His book, Permanent Record, is now available in paperback from Henry Holt and Company.

Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us to innovate (and sometimes cope with) the future! Today we're going to cover a paper by one of the more colorful characters in the history of computing.  John Perry Barlow wrote songs for the Grateful Dead, ran a cattle ranch, was a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was a founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, was a fellow emeritus at Harvard, and early Internet pioneer.  A bit more of the old-school libertarian, he believed the Internet should be free. And to this end, he published an incredibly influential paper in Davos, Switzerland in 1996. That paper did as much during the foundational years of the still-nascent Internet as anything else. And so here it is.  ————— A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear. Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions. You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different. Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live. We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here. Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose. In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us. You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat. In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media. Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish. These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts. We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. ——— Thank you to John Perry Barlow for helping keep the Internet as de-regulated as it can be. Today, as we are overwhelmed by incorrect tweets (no matter what side of the politically isle you fall on), disinformation, and political manipulation, we have to rethink this foundational concept. And I hope we keep coming back to the same realization - the government has no sovereignty where we gather.  Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the history of computing podcast. We are so, so lucky to have you. Have a great day. 

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways A National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program has been ruled unlawful, seven years after it was exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden“What they had ruled was that the NSA’s bulk collection of American’s phone records was illegal” – Edward Snowden“This is a huge victory for privacy rights” Seven years after Snowden released that information, there are been 0 cases showing Snowden harmed or put national security at risk:“The government has never shown a single example of any harm that has come as a result of the publication of these documents back in 2013” – Edward SnowdenIt’s relatively easy to install spyware, such as Pegasus, into someone’s phone and get access to their text messages, calls, passwords, camera, and microphone“The number one target is the iPhone” – Edward SnowdenWhy? The rich, political leaders, business CEOs, and other important figures tend to all have an iPhoneUnfortunately, there’s no real punishment if the government breaks a law:“There is no punishment…There is no criminal liability for all the bastards at the head of the FBI, the head of the NSA, who were violating American’s rights for decades.” – Edward SnowdenThe heads of those organizations don’t go to prison or even lose their jobs. Some government officials even lied under oath and still weren’t held responsible for their actions.“Because of that, it creates a culture of unaccountability”“I think you’re a hero and I think that what you’ve done, history will be kind to you…I think our government is on the wrong side of history” – Joe RoganThe US needs to end the war against whistleblowers that don’t actually reveal any government secrets, but rather simply share the faults of the government to the American people who they serve:“There are times when the only thing you can do is tell the truth and that should not be a crime” – Edward SnowdenRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgFormer CIA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden shocked the world when he revealed the misdeeds of the US intelligence community and its allies. Now living in Russia, he is a noted privacy advocate and author who serves as president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. His book, Permanent Record, is now available in paperback from Henry Holt and Company.

Former CIA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden shocked the world when he revealed the misdeeds of the US intelligence community and its allies. Now living in Russia, he is a noted privacy advocate and author who serves as president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. His book, Permanent Record, is now available in paperback from Henry Holt and Company.

Trevor Timm discusses an important new ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which says that the NSA’s mass data-gathering program, famously exposed by Edward Snowden, was illegal all along. It also came out during the court proceedings that not a single act of terrorism was ever prevented by the program. This ruling is a major vindication of Snowden’s decision, and may bring him one step closer to exoneration. Discussed on the show: “James Clapper denies lying to Congress about NSA surveillance program” (AP News) “State Department Cables” (WikiLeaks) “Afghan War Logs” (WikiLeaks) Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and lawyer whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, and many others. Follow him on Twitter @trevortimm. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com. Donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal, or Bitcoin: 1Ct2FmcGrAGX56RnDtN9HncYghXfvF2GAh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9SBtkHJYmI

How can we protect free speech in 2020? And what exactly is Stalkerware? This week, we dive deeper into these pressing issues, as we're joined by Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity at EFF and Technical Advisor for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.We also discuss the latest security news in WatchTower Weekly (or whatever we're calling this segment now) and announce our Random Act of Kindness winners.

Scott interviews Trevor Timm about a recent U.S. senate vote that would grant the government access to Americans’ browser history without a warrant. This shameful vote is surprising to those who thought that even Washington insiders would have stood up to a civil liberties violation this egregious. Timm and Scott also discuss Julian Assange’s extradition case, which has the potential to set a dangerous precedent not just for iconoclasts exposing scandalous government secrets, but for anyone who does investigative journalism as we know it. Discussed on the show: “The US Senate voted to let Trump spy on your search history. But all is not lost” (The Guardian) “State Department Cables” (WikiLeaks) “Iraq War Logs” (WikiLeaks) The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and lawyer whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, and many others. Follow him on Twitter @trevortimm. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com. Donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal, or Bitcoin: 1Ct2FmcGrAGX56RnDtN9HncYghXfvF2GAh.

This episode features a conversation between Peter Van Valkenburgh - Director of Research at Coin Center, the leading non-profit focused on the policy issues facing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin - and Muneeb Ali, CEO of Blockstack PBC. Peter and Muneeb discuss Coin Center’s mission and recent work, Facebook’s Libra Coin, the case for a true electronic cash, and more. 0:00:50 Peter's bio 0:01:09 Peter: "[Coin Center] was my first big job out of law school." 0:02:58 Muneeb: "You're OG now. When did Blockstack start sponsoring Coin Center?" 0:03:18 Peter: "Coin Center got its start in 2014. We got some really generous runway from a couple of donors who are just individuals who wanted to see a more adult advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. focused on this stuff." 0:04:56 Peter: "Coin Center is supposed to be an independent digital civil lIberties organization that goes and represents the underlying open technologies to Congress or to regulators." 0:06:08 Muneeb: "I simply say [the people at Coin Center]... actually understand this technology and they understand the regulations and the law, which is a rare combination. And they can be the right bridge between this technology and the various regulators or lawmakers." 0:06:29 Peter: "I think that's right. A lot of what we do I often think of as translation." 0:07:13 Peter: "More often than not we're explaining the law to lawyers in this space." 0:08:51 Peter: "There's no company - and all previous financial regulations - almost all - rely on finding a regulated entity and obligating that regulated entity to achieve the policy result that government wants." 0:09:37 Peter: "In the Bitcoin case, who's the issuer of the Bitcoin security?" 0:09:52 Peter: "Who in the Zcash space should be obligated for money laundering compliance?" 0:11:38 Muneeb: "One of my working theories is that Satoshi Nakamoto - whoever that person or group of individuals were - not only understood computer science, distributed systems, applied cryptography, and game theory, they actually knew securities regulation as well and that's why we don't know who is Satoshi Nakamoto." 0:12:42 Peter: "The policy objective that securities law seek to address are correcting the asymmetric information between issuers who are promising things to investors and the investors who've paid money to the investors." 0:13:51 Peter: "There are still the potential for information asymmetries. And I've sort of gotten into this debate with Angela Walch before about whether there's information asymmetries between software developers and the users of a software." 0:15:35 Muneeb: "Speaking of securities regulation I should just make a note here: we have a public filing with the SEC." 0:16:13 Peter: "From my perspective [Blockstack] has taken a really responsible and conservative approach to securities law compliance." 0:17:06 Peter: "I'm not a huge fan of the way we do investor protection in this country because it's very permissioned and it also excludes a lot of investors from participating." 0:18:58 Muneeb: "We actually had you host our Blockstack Summit in Berlin, and you interviewed Edward Snowden there. How was that experience? And has he been more active in the space? Or was that a one off thing?" 0:19:32 Peter: "That experience was awesome - it's still probably one of the craziest things I've ever done." 0:22:36 Peter: "I do think [Edward Snowden] has been quasi-active in the Zcash development community." 0:24:43 Peter: "He's worked on something really cool with the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which is if you have an old cell phone and want to turn it into an alarm system." 0:26:16 Muneeb: "Have you checked out any of the latest stuff that's been built on Blockstack?" 0:26:24 Peter: "I have a real interest in Graphite, which is the Google Docs type app." 0:27:05 Peter: "We've been looking for a long time for some sort of non-Google "Can't Be Evil" alternative to Google Docs." 0:29:29 Peter: "Network effects are a bitch, to put it a somewhat grotesque way. If you're talking about a communication system or a system where people pay each other, the systems that succeeded are not the ones that were best architected." 0:29:55 Peter: "Just look at all the attempts and failures at doing encrypted email." 0:30:16 Peter: "You're just going to default to the one everyone's on, even if it's not great for privacy." 0:32:32 Muneeb: "We're super excited to have [Neal Stephenson] at the 2019 Summit in San Francisco. I think Naval Ravikant is going to have a fireside chat." 0:33:40 Peter: "The Diamond Age describes Zcash." 0:36:01 Muneeb: "Coming back to this idea of decentralized applications - one model I have in my mind was when Linux was starting." 0:38:51 Peter: "Maybe decentralized apps will have their best success early on in those sort of niche enterprise / highly technical persons use-cases." 0:40:16 Peter: "Good luck getting a bunch of lawyers even to this day to group edit a Google Doc, let alone use Graphite." 0:40:24 Muneeb: "I think we knew that Linux won the server wars when even Microsoft started using Linux in their data centers." 0:40:32 Peter: "[Microsoft] has done a total 180, probably because they saw the writing on the wall as far as their consumer software business." 0:40:56 Muneeb: "What do you think of Facebook Libra?" 0:41:05 Peter: "I have a lot of thoughts about Facebook Libra. I should be careful about what I say because I don't want to be unfair." 0:41:30 Peter: "It's a really complicated system they're building that is still nonetheless permissioned. It's a permissioned blockchain." 0:42:29 Peter: "[Libra] is not an open blockchain. It's not a blockchain where anyone can add transactions to the ledger and independently verify the transactions." 0:43:15 Peter: "With Bitcoin, there's a lot of regulations that don't apply because it would be nonsensical to apply them because there isn't a centralized intermediary who you can trust to achieve the policy result you want." 0:43:32 Peter: "With Libra, that's not true at all. There are identified parties who you could trust to achieve the policy result you want." 0:43:56 Peter: "Even if you're an individual, you're not allowed to transact or interact economically with someone on the SDN list, like everyone in Iran." 0:44:42 Peter: "The Libra association is going to be this group of identified persons, which are really just corporations, including Facebook, Visa, and Mastercard. Whose laws are they going to comply with with respect to sanctions?" 0:45:21 Peter: "[Libra's] not censorship resistant cash. It's not really a cryptocurrency. It's just another payment rail. Why build it in such a complicated way?" 0:45:43 Peter: "Another thought is the whole reserve thing. So aside from being permissioned vs permissionless, Lbra is going to be asset-backed." 0:46:36 Peter: "If you are a company that has assets in a reserve, and people are trading - effectively - a pro-rata share of the value of those assets? That sounds like a security to me." 0:47:16 Peter: "And yet, I don't think there's plans to register Libra as a security because, frankly, if you did, it would be very useless as a currency, because it would only be allowed to be traded on securities exchanges." 0:48:09 Peter: "I've never seen such a rapid and aggressive response from members of Congress to a new tech project." 0:49:28 Muneeb: "Do you think the reaction from Washington is linked with some of the antitrust stuff as well?" 0:50:07 Peter: "Maybe they thought, 'This is us proving that we're investing in being less powerful'? Kind of like how they talk about WhatsApp a lot now." 0:51:03 Peter: "People in Congress ... are gonna say, 'This is Facebook, who some of us are already talking about anti-trust issues, and now they want to become the global reserve currency for all payments everywhere?" 0:51:40 Peter: "If any company is going to build a payments tool, they should build cryptocurrencies. I'm just disappointed they didn't basically fork Bitcoin or integrate it." 0:52:13 Muneeb: "That's what they say in the whitepaper, 'We're giving ourselves five years to figure out how to build an open system, but in the meanwhile - because of scalability - the only way to scale to a billion users is to use a closed system." 0:52:54 Peter: "I've heard a lot of people say that Move, the smart contract language [Facebook's] architected, is apparently extremely elegant." 0:53:17 Muneeb: "The motivation for Move is very similar to the smart contract language that we launched yesterday, Clarity." 0:54:38 Peter: "God knows that Solidity has had this particular issue where it's hard to know exactly what you just wrote in a smart contract until you launch it on Mainnet and someone breaks it in the DAO hack example." 0:55:44 Muneeb: "Ethereum is very interesting. They have a large community and kind of started everyone in the industry in a certain direction from a technology perspective. And I believe that most of those things were wrong." 0:57:05 Peter: "Maybe the network effects are just age-based, but it could also be this willingness to push stuff out there maybe before it's fully manicured or even fully compliant with the law." 0:57:51 Peter: "I should disclose that I'm a member of the Zcash Foundation's Board of Directors." 1:00:00 Muneeb: "I swear we're not doing this on purpose, but every decision we make ends up being the exact opposite of Ethereum." 1:04:13 Muneeb: "What's the biggest project you're spending your time on these days?" 1:05:50 Peter: "We were faced around a year and a half ago with, 'What's going to be a big issue in a year or two years? What do we need to start laying the groundwork on from a policy perspective now in order to have good policy outcomes later?'" 1:07:12 Peter: "Bitcoin, I think, ultimately needs to change and be more private and a lot of the privacy coins that we now see were originally proposed as amendments to the Bitcoin protocol." 1:08:38 Peter: "Any of the very public blockchains will ultimately need to find ways to obscure that transaction graph because, otherwise, we're gonna just be giving totalitarian states the best tool for mass surveillance that anyone's ever developed." 1:08:52 Peter: "So, with that in mind, we said 'What are the policy issues here?' And the big ones are anti money laundering law." 1:09:18 Peter: "Bank robbers use getaway cars. Even terrorists use encrypted messaging. This is just a reality, but that doesn't mean we should ban automobiles and encryption." 1:10:06 Peter: "We use the term 'electronic cash' because it's really like cash then. You can send it from one person to another, no one is in between, it's censorship resistant, and it doesn't leave a record." 1:10:23 Peter: "What if we get some sort of overbearing, overzealous response from policy makers that says we can't have these things anymore?" 1:11:51 Peter: "Most people have written about First Amendment issues here: ... if you're writing in computer code... it's still speech." 1:12:44 Peter: "What I don't think is a well enough explored area are the Fourth Amendment issues. The Fourth Amendment in the US says you need a warrant if you're a law enforcement and want to search somebody." 1:13:43 Peter: "Banks have been reporting our entire transaction history to governments whenever they ask, without a warrant, since 1970." 1:14:12 Peter: "The reason why that's constitutional in this context is because people willingingly hand over those records to banks during the regular course of business. ... You lose your reasonable expectation of privacy because your sharing it with a third-party." 1:15:09 Peter: "There's no reason for a developer to have all that private information about the users of their software. There's definitely a reason for a bank to have a bunch of information about the users of the bank." 1:15:48 Peter: "From a constitutional law standpoint... the only reason why it's okay for banks to bulk collect, surveil their users, and report that to government without a warrant, is that they have a reasonable business purpose to collect that information." 1:16:03 Peter: "There's no reasonable business purpose for an open source software developer to collect information about the users of their software - it just doesn't make sense." 1:16:29 Peter: "If it's interesting to your audience, I highly recommend you pick up our report. It's explained much more carefully and you don't need to be a lawyer or to have gone to law school to understand it." 1:17:33 Muneeb: "Where can people find you?" 1:17:37 Peter: "All our work at Coin Center is made public and made available at CoinCenter.org. And we rely on donations from people who are just excited about the technology and want to see good advocacy in DC." 1:18:18 Muneeb: "Blockstack is a supporter and we've been extremely happy with our involvement with Coin Center. They've been super helpful whenever we need them." 1:18:29 Muneeb: "Goodbyes." Peter Van Valkenburgh http://twitter.com/valkenburgh Muneeb Ali http://twitter.com/muneeb Zach Valenti http://twitter.com/zachvalenti See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, talks about the weaponization of this law for use in stopping investigative journalism and the case of Air Force veteran Daniel Hale, who is facing 50 years in prison.  Organizer Bill Fletcher Jr. discusses the Trump administration’s intensifying military threats against Iran, the ongoing coup attempt in Venezuela and offers strategic thoughts on how to view the 2020 Democratic primary field.  Dr. Krystal Redman, executive director of SPARK Reproductive Justice Now in Georgia, talks about the spate of new laws being implemented in several states that seek to criminalize abortion and women’s health care providers.

Peter Sterne is an independent journalist that specializes in press freedom issues. He has been a senior reporter at the Freedom of the Press Foundation and helped set up the US Press Freedom Tracker. He also worked at Politco.We discuss the recent arrest of Julian Assange, whistleblowers and the encroachment on press freedom.You can read Peter's piece on The Espionage Act here See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the coming weeks, millions of people will get new phones, computers, Amazon Echos, Google Homes, Smart Coffee Makers, and other internet of things devices. All of these things come with their own privacy, surveillance, and hacking risks, but there are steps you can take to minimize your exposure. So we thought it’d be a good time to talk about the Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked, our comprehensive advice on digital security.We’ve released a new version of it every year for the last three years, adding and changing things as hacking threats and security best practices evolve. This week, Harlo Holmes, director of Newsroom Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation, and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, a senior staff writer at Motherboard join editor-in-chief Jason Koebler to talk about the guide. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the coming weeks, millions of people will get new phones, computers, Amazon Echos, Google Homes, Smart Coffee Makers, and other internet of things devices. All of these things come with their own privacy, surveillance, and hacking risks, but there are steps you can take to minimize your exposure. So we thought it'd be a good time to talk about the Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked, our comprehensive advice on digital security.We've released a new version of it every year for the last three years, adding and changing things as hacking threats and security best practices evolve. This week, Harlo Holmes, director of Newsroom Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation, and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, a senior staff writer at Motherboard join editor-in-chief Jason Koebler to talk about the guide. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the latest episode of Across The Margin’s podcast, host Michael Shields, with the help of recurring guest George Guidotti, explores the recently released memoir of the late, great John Perry Barlow. As exhibited by his memoir, Mother America Night: My Life In Crazy Times, John Perry Barlow was an extraordinary human, who throughout his remarkable life was entirely and wonderfully multifaceted. He was a poet and essayist, a cattle rancher, a political activist, a freedom fighter who championed an independent internet, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. There are few individuals in the last fifty years whose life has been at the center of so many cultural and political touchstones as Barlow has, and Mother America Night, and thus this episode, acts as a window into the life of a steadfast American icon.In this episode, Michael and George delve into Mother America Night, which will forever stand as an essential text for understanding the historic, far-reaching, and influential life of John Perry Barlow. Expanding upon his remarkable experiences and unique encounters, from his early days as a cattle rancher in Wyoming, to clubbing with Andy Warhol in New York, to hanging with the Dead on Haight-Ashbury and beyond, this episode pulls you deep into the riveting life and journeys of Barlow and offers a glimpse of the remarkable memoir he left behind. To finish off the podcast, Barlow’s songwriting is enthusiastically digested, and his profound and much-celebrated list of The 25 Principles of Adult Behavior is examined and praised. So join in on an ode to a true original, and one of the most interesting people to ever walk the planet. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode: - eToro add Cardano to its platform - Freedom of the Press Foundation open for cryptocurrency donations - Square receive BitLicense in the state of NY - Cryptocurrency market show signs of recovery. Bitcoin up 3.5% to the current $6750

 While Paul Manafort enjoyed the comforts of his Hamptons mansion on house arrest, Winner was denied bond, kept in a jail and has been subjected to a public smear campaign by Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department. She was the first whistleblower charged under President Trump and her treatment is unprecedented. Former drone technician-turned-whistleblower Lisa Ling talks about the campaign to free Winner. Trevor Timm of Freedom of the Press Foundation breaks down how the government is stripping Winner of her right to a fair trial. The Intercept’s Peter Maass highlights the injustice and hypocrisy of her treatment. Intercept editor in chief Betsy Reed and reporter Sam Biddle talk about the top secret NSA document she allegedly leaked, the irony of the media silence about Winner’s treatment, and why First Look Media is funding her defense. To support Reality Winner's legal defense fund, click here. Come see Intercepted live in Brooklyn, NY on June 21 with featured guest, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh. Tickets are now available.

Chris Ategeka chats with Trevor Timm, director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, about privacy for journalists and the rest of us in the 21st century.

Interview with Peter Sterne, Senior Reporter at the Freedom of the Press Foundation and Managing Editor of the US Press Freedom Tracker Hosts: Trevor Hultner and Yael Grauer Resources: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/17/greg-gianforte-guardian-reporter-ben-jacobs-assault Intro/outro music by The Hellfreaks: www.thehellfreaks.com

On the latest episode of The Kicker, Meg has an interview with journalist and novelist Julia Dahl. They discuss her experience working at the New York Post and how tabloids shaped the early years of Donald Trump. Then, we run through the week's biggest stories: the narrative surrounding new White House chief of staff John Kelly, and buyouts at the New York Times. Plus, a short conversation with Peter Sterne, a senior reporter at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, about the new US Press Freedom Tracker.

Dopo la recente elezione di Donald Trump a Presidente degli Stati Uniti, in questa puntata analizziamo il suo rapporto con il cyberspazio e quali pericoli dovremo affrontare. Link di riferimento:- Cybersicurezza secondo Trump: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/cyber-security/- Freedom of the Press Foundation: https://freedom.press/blog/2016/11/freedom-press-foundations-statement-donald-trump-enemy-press-freedom-winning-us- ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/if-donald-trump-implements-his-proposed-policies-well-see-him-court

Dopo la recente elezione di Donald Trump a Presidente degli Stati Uniti, in questa puntata analizziamo il suo rapporto con il cyberspazio e quali pericoli dovremo affrontare. Link di riferimento:- Cybersicurezza secondo Trump: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/cyber-security/- Freedom of the Press Foundation: https://freedom.press/blog/2016/11/freedom-press-foundations-statement-donald-trump-enemy-press-freedom-winning-us- ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/if-donald-trump-implements-his-proposed-policies-well-see-him-court

John Cusack is a renowned actor, best known for classics like Being John Malkovich, Better Off Dead, Say Anything, and for my money, the greatest sports movie of all time, Eight Men Out. Cusack is also a serious political thinker with a new book “Things That Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations,” co-written with Indian author Arundhati Roy about a range of subjects from patriotism, war, resistance, and empire – most centrally a reflection on a trip Cusack took with Roy and famed whistleblower of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. We speak with Cusack on his book, his beloved Chicago Cubs, patriotism, the anthem protests of Colin Kaepernick and I slip in a couple of movie questions as well. I also have some "choice words" about Kaepernick's first start of the season in Buffalo and “Just Stand Up” awards go to Wisconsin Badger Nigel Hayes and LA Dodger Adrian Gonzalez.Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations by Arundhati Roy and John Cusack http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Things-That-Can-and-Cannot-Be-Said
Freedom of the Press Foundation https://freedom.press/‘The Woke Tailgate’: The Brave of Buffalo Kneel in Solidarity With Colin Kaepernick https://www.thenation.com/article/the-woke-tailgate-the-brave-of-buffalo-kneel-in-solidarity-with-colin-kaepernick/—http://edgeofsportspodcast.com | http://twitter.com/edgeofsports | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: edgeofsports@slate.com—music: “The Magnificent Seven” by The Clash http://www.theclash.com/ | “Coolie Dance Riddim” - Cordell "Scatta" Burrell | “Step Into a World (Rapture's Delight)” - KRS-ONE (Jesse West production) | The Swanky Modes (Sam Moore and Junior Walker) - Ordinary Man (Tapeheads Soundtrack) | “In Your Eyes” - Peter Gabriel (Orchestral version) http://petergabriel.com |   “Hail Mary” & “Keep Ya Head Up” - 2Pac (Hurt-M-Badd & DJ Daryl production) | “All the Way Up” - Fat Joe & Remy Ma (Edsclusive Cool & Dre production) | “Slow Down” - Brand Nubian

This week on BSDNow, Allan is back in down from Europe! We'll get to hear some of his wrap-up and get caught up on the latest BSD This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD Quarterly Report (http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.html) This quarterly status report starts with a rather interesting introduction by Warren Block ASLR Porting CEPH to FreeBSD RCTL I/O Rate Limiting The Graphics Stack on FreeBSD (Haswell is in, work is progressing on the next update) CAM I/O Scheduler NFS Server updates, working around the 16 group limit, and implementing pNFS, allowing NFS to scale beyond a single server Static Analysis of the FreeBSD Kernel with PVS Studio PCI-express HotPlug GitLab Port committed! WITHFASTDEPEND and other improvements to the FreeBSD build system Lots of other interesting stuff *** A Prog By Any Other Name (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/a-prog-by-any-other-name) Ted Unangst looks at what goes into the name of a program “Sometimes two similar programs are really the same program with two names. For example, grep and egrep are two commands that perform very similar functions and are therefore implemented as a single program. Running ls -i and observing the inode number of each file will reveal that there is only one file. Calling the program egrep is a shorthand for -E and does the same thing.” So BSD provides __progname in libc, so a program can tell what its name is But, what if it has more than one name? “In fact, every program has three names: its name in the filesystem, the name it has been invoked with, and whatever it believes its own name to be.” Of course it is not that easy. “there's another set of choices for each name, the full path and the basename” “It's even possible on some systems for argv[0] to be NULL.” He then goes on to rename doas (the OpenBSD light replacement for sudo) to banana and discuss what happens “On that note, another possible bug is to realize that syslog by default uses progname. A user may be able to evade log monitoring by invoking doas with a different name. (Just fixed.)” Another interesting article from our friend Ted *** FreeBSD (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4892834293350400/) and NetBSD (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6246531984261120/) Google Summer of Code projects have been announced Some FreeBSD highlights: Add SCSI passthrough to CTL (share an optical drive via iSCSI) Add USB target mode driver based on CTL (share a USB device via iSCSI) API to link created /dev entries to sysctl nodes Implement Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS) HD Audio device model in userspace for bhyve Some NetBSD highlights: Implement Ext4fs support in ReadOnly mode NPF and blacklistd web interface Port U-Boot so it can be compiled on NetBSD Split debug symbols for pkgsrc builds *** libressl - more vague priomises (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/libressl-more-vague-promises) We haven't had a Ted U article on the show as of late, however this week we get several! In his next entry “LibreSSL, more vague promises” He then goes into some detail on what has happened with LibreSSL in the past while, as well as future plans going forward. “With an eye to the future, what new promises can we make? Some time ago I joked that we only promised to make a better TLS implementation, not a better TLS. Remains true, but fortunately there are people working on that, too. TLS 1.3 support is on the short term watchlist. The good news is we may be ahead of the game, having already removed compression. How much more work can there be?” “LibreSSL integrated the draft chacha20-poly1305 construction from BoringSSL. The IETF has since standardized a slightly different version because if it were the same it wouldn't be different. Support for standard variant, and the beginning of deprecation for the existing code, should be landing very shortly. Incidentally, some people got bent out of shape because shipping chacha20 meant exposing non IANA approved numbers to Internet. No promises that won't happen again.” *** Interview - Samy Al Bahra - @0xF390 (https://twitter.com/0xF390) Backtrace *** News Roundup systrace(1) is removed for OpenBSD 6.0 (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=146161167911029&w=2) OpenBSD has removed systrace, an older mechanism for limiting what syscalls an application can make It is mostly replaced by the pledge() system OpenBSD was the first implementation, most others have been unmaintained for some time The last reported Linux version was for kernel 2.6.1 NetBSD removed systrace in 2007 *** pfSense Video Series: Comprehensive Guide To pfSense 2.3 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE726R7YUJTePGvo0Zga2juUBxxFTH4Bk) A series of videos (11 so far), about pfSense Covers Why you would use it, how to pick your hardware, and installation Then the series covers some networking basics, to make sure you are up to speed before configuring your pfSense Then a comprehensive tour of the WebUI Then goes on to cover graphing, backing up and restoring configuration There are also videos on running DHCP, NTP, and DNS servers *** DuckDuckGo announces its 2016 FOSS Donations (https://duck.co/blog/post/303/2016-foss-donations-announcement) The theme is “raising the standard of trust online” Supported projects include: OpenBSD Foundation announces DuckDuckGo as a Gold Sponsor (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160503085227&mode=expanded) the Freedom of the Press Foundation for SecureDrop the Freenet Project the CrypTech Project the Tor Project Fight for the Future for Save Security Open Source Technology Improvement Fund for VeraCrypt (based on TrueCrypt) Riseup Labs for LEAP (LEAP Encryption Access Project) GPGTools for GPGMail *** Larry the BSD Guy hangs up his hat at FOSS Force (http://fossforce.com/2016/04/bsd-linuxfest-northwest/) After 15 years, Larry the BSD Guy has decided to hang it up, and walk into the sunset! (Figuratively of course) After wrapping up coverage of recent LinuxFest NorthWest (Which he didn't attend), Larry has decided it's time for a change and is giving up his column over at FOSS Force, as well as stepping away from all things technical. His last write-up is a good one, and he has some nice plugs for both Dru Lavigne and Michael Dexter of the BSD community. He will be missed, but we wish him all the luck with the future! He also puts out the plug that FOSS Force will be needing a new columnist in the near future, so if you are interested please let them know! *** Beastie Bits If you sponsored “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS”, check your mail box (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2648) pkg-1.7.0 is an order of magnitude slower than pkg-1.6.4 (https://marc.info/?l=freebsd-ports&m=146001143408868&w=2) -- Caused by a problem not in pkg LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Recap (https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/linuxfest-northwest-2016/) Dru Lavigne's 'Doc like an Egyption' talk from LFNW (https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016/sessions/doc-egyptian) Michael Dexters' 'Switching to BSD from Linux' talk from LFNW (https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016/sessions/devil-details-switching-bsd-linux) Michael Dexters' 'Secrets to enduring user groups' talk from LFNW (https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016/sessions/20-year-and-counting-secrets-enduring-user-groups) January issue of Freebsd Journal online for free (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/journal/) Ghost BSD releases 10.3 Alpha1 for testing (http://ghostbsd.org/10.3_alpha1) EuroBSDcon 2016 - Call for Papers - Dealine: May 8th (https://www.freebsdnews.com/2016/04/15/eurobsdcon-2016-call-for-papers/) KnoxBUG Initial Meeting (http://www.knoxbug.org/content/knoxbug-maiden-voyage) Photos, slides, and videos from the Open Source Data Center Conference (https://www.netways.de/en/events_trainings/osdc/archive/osdc2016/) *** Feedback/Questions Mohammad - Replication (http://pastebin.com/KDnyWf6Y) John - Rolling new packages (http://pastebin.com/mAbRwbEF) Clint - Unicast (http://pastebin.com/BNa6pyir) Bill - GhostBSD (http://pastebin.com/KDjS2Hxa) Charles - BSD Videos (http://pastebin.com/ABUUtzWM) ***

Rainey Reitman is the Activism Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a co-founder of both the Freedom of the Press Foundation and Chelsea Manning Support Network. My conversation with Rainey is, in many ways, the logical extension of my conversation with James Bamford about digital surveillance and privacy. But while Bamford discussed the extent and mechanisms of surveillance, that conversation didn't get into the nuts and bolts of how to cure the problem he diagnosed. Enter Rainey, who spends her days trying to make issues of digital liberties comprehensible and relevant. We only had an hour for our interview, so I wasn't able to pivot from digital liberties towards the bigger picture issues that I usually aim for, but there's still a ton of good material in here. Neil and I were especially interested in analogies between physical and digital space and questions of public versus private ownership.

When IoT attacks: hacking a Linux-powered rifle Runa A. Sandvik Michael Auger TrackingPoint is an Austin startup known for making precision-guided firearms. These firearms ship with a tightly integrated system coupling a rifle, an ARM-powered scope running a modified version of Linux, and a linked trigger mechanism. The scope can follow targets, calculate ballistics and drastically increase its user's first shot accuracy. The scope can also record Audio and audio, as well as stream Audio to other devices using its own wireless network and mobile applications. In this talk, we will demonstrate how the TrackingPoint long range tactical rifle works. We will discuss how we reverse engineered the scope, the firmware, and three of TrackingPoint's mobile applications. We will discuss different use cases and attack surfaces. We will also discuss the security and privacy implications of network-connected firearms. Runa A. Sandvik is a privacy and security researcher, working at the intersection of technology, law and policy. She is a technical advisor to both the Freedom of the Press Foundation and the TrueCrypt Audit Project, and a member of the review board for Black Hat Europe. Twitter: @runasand Michael Auger is an experienced IT Security specialist with extensive experience in integrating and leveraging IT security tools. He has leveraged a wide range of IT security solutions, integrating them, to deliver leading edge incident response and security operations capabilities. His 15+ year career includes: · Supporting security incidents during the event and the subsequent remediation phases · Implementing and managing IT security infrastructures for public and private organizations. · Design and implement global SIEM infrastructure for F100 organizations · Delivering training on advanced SIEM solutions and network discovery tools · Presenting and publishing security articles on security vulnerabilities and best practices

F*ck the attribution, show us your .idb! Morgan Marquis-Boire Senior Researcher, Citizen Lab Marion Marschalek Malware reverse engineer, Cyphort Inc Claudio Guarnieri Creator and lead developer, Cuckoo Sandbox Over the past few years state-sponsored hacking has received attention that would make a rockstar jealous. Discussion of malware has shifted in focus from ‘cyber crime’ to ‘cyber weapons’, there have been intense public debates on attribution of various high profile attacks, and heated policy discussion surrounding regulation of offensive tools. We’ve also seen the sale of ‘lawful intercept’ malware become a global trade. While a substantial focus has revolved around the activities of China, Russia, and Iran, recent discoveries have revealed the capabilities of Western nations such as WARRIORPRIDE aka. Regin (FVEY) and SNOWGLOBE aka. Babar (France). Many have argued that digital operations are a logical, even desirable part of modern statecraft. The step from digital espionage to political persecution is, however, a small one. Commercially written, offensive software from companies like FinFisher and Hacking Team has been sold to repressive regimes under the guise of ‘governmental intrusion’ software. Nation state hacking operations are frequently well-funded, difficult to attribute, and rarely prosecuted even if substantive evidence can be discovered. While efforts have been made to counter this problem, proof is hard to find and even more difficult to correctly interpret. This creates a perfect storm of conditions for lies, vendor lies, and flimsy attribution. In this talk we will unveil the mess happening backstage when uncovering nation state malware, lead the audience on the track of actor attribution, and cover what happens when you find other players on the hunt. We will present a novel approach to binary stylometry, which helps matching binaries of equal authorship and allows credible linking of binaries into the bigger picture of an attack. After this session the audience will have a better understanding of what happened behind the scenes when the next big APT report surfaces. Morgan Marquis-Boire is a Senior Researcher at the Citizen Lab, University of Toronto. He is the Director of Security for First Look Media and a contributing writer for The Intercept. Prior to this, he worked on the security team at Google. He is a Special Advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco and an Advisor to the United Nations Inter-regional Crime and Justice Research Institute. In addition to this, he serves as a member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation advisory board and as an advisor to Amnesty International. Marion is a malware reverse engineer on duty for Cyphort Inc., focussing on the analysis of emerging threats and exploring novel methods of threat detection. She teaches malware analysis at University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten and frequently appears as speaker at international conferences. Two years ago Marion won Halvar Flake's reverse engineering challenge for females, since then she set out to threaten cyber criminals. She practices martial arts and has a vivid passion for taking things apart. Preferably, other people's things. Claudio is a security researcher mostly specialized in the analysis of malware, botnets and computer attacks in general. He's a core member of The Honeynet Project and created the open source malware analysis software Cuckoo Sandbox and Viper and runs the Malwr free service. Claudio published abundant research on botnets and targeted attacks and presented at conferences such as Hack In The Box, BlackHat, Chaos Communication Congress and many more. In recent years he devoted his attention especially on issues of privacy and surveillance and published numerous articles on surveillance vendors such as FinFisher and HackingTeam with the Citizen Lab as well as on NSA/GCHQ and Five Eyes surveillance capabilities with The Intercept and Der Spiegel. Claudio also contributes to Global Voices Advocacy. He continuously researches and writes on government surveillance and threats to journalists and dissidents worldwide and supports human rights organisations with operational security and emergency response.

Harlo Holmes is someone I've wanted to have on the show for a long time. I first heard about her work when she was a research fellow with The Guardian Project, and now she's a digital security trainer with the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Throughout her career, Harlo has been solving all the puzzles that new media presents in a number of different ways as a software developer, media scholar, and activist. We started off talking about her past and current work, which then segued into a great discussion about metadata, the Internet of Things, and some of the current and new problems that we're all facing with data security as we live in a digitally-connected world. Harlo is definitely someone you'll hear more about in the future, and I'm super stoked to have her come on the show. Harlo Holmes on Twitter Freedom of the Press Foundation The Guardian Project

U.S. intelligence officials claim Cyber-attacks and cyber-espionage pose a greater potential danger to U.S. national security than Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. We go after these claims. On Tuesday the Freedom of the Press Foundation published leaked audio from Bradley Manning’s courtroom testimony, allowing the world for the first time to hear the voice of the 25-year-old Army private as he details leaking of thousands of reports and a cables to WikiLeaks. Plus big drone money gets serious, your feedback, and much much more!