Researchers detail a technique Meta and Yandex use to glean some logged-in Android users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers via web identifiers
even in incognito mode or with a VPN Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Meta and Yandex Apps on Android Have Been Tracking Users in Newly Creepy Ways Bluesky: Matthew Green / @matthewdgreen : Yuck. Meta apps l...
Interview with Cory Doctorow about his new sci-fi book Attack Surface, the third work in his Little Brother series that influenced hacktivists like Aaron Swartz
Cory Doctorow's Little Brother series has been a young-adult sci-fi bible for teen hacktivists. But with the latest and darkest book in the trilogy, it's all grown up.
White House declines to act on petitions to fire Aaron Swartz prosecutors
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Documentary about Aaron Swartz, “The Internet's Own Boy”, now playing in theaters and online
Watch This Film About Why Aaron Swartz Matters More Than Ever — Aaron Swartz was a young, bright genius who believed in the open Internet. A self-made millionaire by the age of 19 …
Court documents reveal ambivalence in how MIT assisted Aaron Swartz's prosecution
The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz — More than a year after Swartz killed himself rather than face prosecution, questions about MIT's handling of the hacking case persist
Review: “The Internet's Own Boy”, a documentary on Aaron Swartz's life and death
The New Aaron Swartz Documentary at Sundance — “The Internet's Own Boy,” a documentary about the life and death of Aaron Swartz, premièred on Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received ...
The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs
Before Edward Snowden showed up, 2013 was shaping up as the year of reckoning for the much criticized federal anti-hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA"). The suicide of Aaron Swa...
This Is the MIT Surveillance Video That Undid Aaron Swartz
The door to the network closet pops open and a slender figure enters, a bicycle helmet hanging from one arm. He sheds his backpack and pulls out a cardboard box containing a small hard drive, then kn...
First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File Released
After half-a-year of delays and roadblocks, the U.S Secret Service today released the first 104 pages of agency documents about the late coder and activist Aaron Swartz, including a brief report on Sw...
MIT report finds university never pushed for prosecution or punishment for Aaron Swartz
In a long-awaited public response to the death of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in January after being charged with hacking into MIT computers and illegally downloading millions of academicjourn...