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The Whistleblower’s Guide to the Orwellian Galaxy: How to Leak to the Press

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“It is, as one commenter noted, ‘a dangerous time to be right when the government is wrong.’ We now live in a world where public servants informing the public about government behavior or wrongdoing must practice the tradecraft of spies and drug dealers à la The Wire. Even the head of the CIA can’t email his mistress without being identified by the FBI. And privately collected data isn’t immune, either; highly sensitive metadata is particularly vulnerable thanks to the Third Party Doctrine. So how can one safely leak information to the press, let alone coordinate a Deep Throat-style meetup?  Here’s a guide.”

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/the-whistleblowers-guide-to-privacy-how-to-leak-to-the-press/

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Surveillance Self-Defense International [2010]

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“The Internet remains one of the most powerful means ever created to give voice to repressed people around the world. Unfortunately, new technologies have also given authoritarian regimes new means to identify and retaliate against those who speak out despite censorship and surveillance. Below are six basic ideas for those attempting to speak without falling victim to authoritarian surveillance and censorship, and four ideas for the rest of us who want to help support them.”

https://www.eff.org/wp/surveillance-self-defense-international

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Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers

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“There’s an unwritten rule that Mastercard and Visa don’t accept file-hosting sites that have an affiliate program and PayPal has thrown out nearly all cyberlockers in recent months. It now turns out that these policies have carried over to VPN providers and other anonymizing services. Before the weekend customers of the popular Swedish payment service provider Payson received an email stating that VPN services are no longer allowed to accept Visa and Mastercard payments due to a recent policy change.  The new policy went into effect on Monday, leaving customers with a two-day window to find a solution.”

http://torrentfreak.com/mastercard-and-visa-start-banning-vpn-providers-130703/

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The Politics Of Bitcoin Mixing Services

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“The emergence of services that mingle bitcoin for the purpose of returning bitcoin not associated with the original input address has had a somewhat spotty history. Also called bitcoin laundries, these web-based services charge bitcoin holders a nominal fee to receive different bitcoins than the ones initially transferred. The largest such service operating today is the Blockchain.info mixing service which has a maximum transaction size of 250 bitcoins and a 0.5% transaction fee.  Other services include BitLaundry and The Bitcoin Laundry operated by Mike Gogulski.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/06/05/the-politics-of-bitcoin-mixing-services/

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Thin Wire – Hawala

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“With the ingenious method of hawala, money moved time zones and continents via a single communication between two hawaladars or thadekars (hawala agents): a promise that the cash had been deposited on one end, and thus could be withdrawn from the other. So long as cash trades at either end were relatively balanced, the system worked—so well that hawala remained the mainstay of monetary trade in more than 50 countries until the early 20th century.  Fast-forward a few hundred years, and hawala has a less celebrated reputation. But for families in developing countries supported by diaspora relatives, hawala is a lifeline.”

http://mkshft.org/2013/07/thin-wire/

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CoinLab: new brands will be built around Bitcoin technology

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“One thing humans don’t know how to do is shut down peer to peer networks. We don’t have the technology. Generally it’s the case governments are understanding, but if you start crushing all the good [Bitcoin businesses] you’ll push this underground. I see a world in which governments can set the price.You could stop good exchanges, but it would be hard to stop secret ones. It’s so fast and so easy to use, the right thing to do is to build a good ecosystem. There may be a country that doesn’t want to deal with it, but citizens will keep using it.”

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/01/coinlab-peter-vessenes

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Reddit co-founder: Tech companies can help fight NSA snooping

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“‘I think we are awakening to a new age of sort of distributed — instead of centralized — hubs for all our data,’ he explained. ‘So I think this is the free market, we could very likely see alternatives pop up were social networking or whatever the thing might be does not concentrate all of our private data in one particular space.’ Ohanian was a vocal opponent of legislation known as the Stop Online Piracy Act. Reddit, along with other tech giants like Wikipedia, successfully killed the bill by staging an Internet ‘blackout.’ However, Ohanian admitted that drumming up support to fight NSA surveillance was a more difficult task than battling SOPA.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/30/reddit-co-founder-tech-companies-can-help-fight-nsa-snooping/

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Bitcoin Black Market Competition Heats Up, With Pro Marketing And Millions At Stake

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Bitcoin Black Market Competition Heats Up, With Pro Marketing And Millions At Stake

“Watch the cheery video ad for the latest dark-web drug marketplace today, and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was selling a service as mainstream as online dating or car insurance.  Atlantis, which launched in March, is poised to take on the Silk Road, which remains by far the biggest drug sales site, with close to 60,000 unique visitors a day by one researcher’s rough measure and $22 million annual sales according to a study last year. Both run on the anonymity service Tor to hide the location of their servers and the identities of any visitors to their sites, and both accept Bitcoin to avoid having their transactions tracked through bank records.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/26/bitcoin-black-market-competition-heats-up-with-pro-marketing-and-millions-at-stake/

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Glenn Greenwald: Snowden’s Files Are Out There if ‘Anything Happens’ to Him

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“As the U.S. government presses Moscow to extradite former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, America’s most wanted leaker has a plan B. The former NSA systems administrator has already given encoded files containing an archive of the secrets he lifted from his old employer to several people. If anything happens to Snowden, the files will be unlocked.  The fact that Snowden has made digital copies of the documents he accessed while working at the NSA poses a new challenge to the U.S. intelligence community that has scrambled in recent days to recover them and assess the full damage of the breach.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-snowden-s-files-are-out-there-if-anything-happens-to-him.html

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Bitcoiners donate to WikiLeaks to support Edward Snowden

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“Bitcoin donations to WikiLeaks increased 1,894% yesterday after Julian Assange pledged his support to whistle-blower Edward Snowden.  ‘I have personal sympathy with Snowden having gone through similar personal experiences,’ Time Magazine reports Assange as saying during the 75-minute call.  Assange said yesterday that Snowden was ‘healthy and safe’, but would not offer any further insight into where the 29-year-old was or when and how they had spoken. ‘If we lived in a better world we would be able to go into those details. Unfortunately, we live in a world, as illuminated by Mr Snowden, where most communications are intercepted unlawfully.'”

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoiners-rally-behind-snowden/

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