Appelbaum, whose work has put him in the crosshairs of his own government and foreign states, resigned from the Tor project on Friday, accompanied by a short note from Tor executive director Shari Steele.
Google's lawyers fought strenuously against the DoJ's demands for access to the Gmail account of Jacob Appelbaum, a journalist, activist and volunteer with the Wikileaks project; they fought even harder against the accompanying gag order, arguing that Appelbaum had the right to know what was going on and have a lawyer argue his case.
Rhizome pairs artists with technologists to create original works so Appelbaum, an exiled American Tor/Wikileaks hacker travelled to Beijing to work with Ai, whose government won't let him leave, with Poitras there to document their time.
Al Billings writes, "Jacob Appelbaum discusses the fallacy of Americans thinking that they won't be targeted, passive and active surveillance methods, AI and human analyst systems working together, satellite networks, deep packet inspection & injection, military contractors getting special access to surveillance programs, proprietary vs open source software, OTR messaging, hoarding exploits for self-gain."
Two of my friends contributed afterwords to my novel Homeland: Aaron Swartz and Jacob Appelbaum. In this outtake from the independently produced Homeland audiobook (which you can get for the next week exclusively through the Humble Ebook Bundle), Jake reads his afterword at The Hellish Vortex Studio in Berlin, where he is in exile after several harrowing adventures at the US border. — Read the rest
Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project and Wikileaks addressed the European Parliament on the issue of surveillance and freedom. It was a remarkable speech, even by Appelbaum's high standards. An amateur transcript gives you a sense of what's going on, but the video is even better: "Is it used for coercion? — Read the rest
Jacob Appelbaum's keynote from 29C3 -- last December's Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin -- is a riveting hour on surveillance, freedom, and the wild, criminal lawlessness of the NSA.
The Wall Street Journal was the first to report tonight that Jacob Appelbaum, a hacker, security researcher, and human rights activist, is the subject of a secret court order demanding his email data for the last two years. Sonic.net, a small ISP, went to great trouble and expense to fight the order but lost. — Read the rest
Earlier today, I spoke with Jacob Appelbaum, a volunteer with the WikiLeaks project whose work in other projects related to tech and human rights have been blogged here on Boing Boing over the years.
As reported on Boing Boing and widely elsewhere, Wikileaks have released a massive archive of secret US military documents related to the war in Afghanistan, unprecedented in scope. — Read the rest
Johannes sez, "Dorkbot Vienna (hosted by monochrom) invited Jacob Appelbaum to give a talk about 'The future of free communication – Techniques, ideas and pitfalls for communicating (semi)anonymously'."
Photos from blogger / hacker / world traveler / shooter Jake Appelbaum are on display in Toronto tonight at his first-ever gallery show, together with photographer Kate Young. "Something Strange Bends Light Our Way" opens tonight at at the Now Lounge, goes for the next few weeks. — Read the rest
I went to the E3 Gaming expo here in Los Angeles yesterday, to file a report for NPR's "Day to Day" — I was joined by a roaming posse of uber-nerds: Wil Wheaton, Jacob Appelbaum, Macki, and Sean Bonner. — Read the rest
The convicted sexual predator committed suicide overnight at MCC Manhattan, the federal lockup where he had been held pending trial on federal sex trafficking charges, law enforcement officials told ABC News.
He was on "suicide watch," but the MCC jail failed, twice, to prevent attempts of suicide. — Read the rest