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Facebook doesn't add third sex, gay activist disables account
A prominent lawmaker and gay rights activist in Nepal asked Facebook to add a third sex option for people who identify as neither male nor female. The company didn't, so he disabled his account.
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Hacktivists stole 100 million records in 2011
Hacktivist groups like Anonymous and LulzSec weren't responsible for the most data breaches in 2011. They did, however, steal the most records from users last year, according to a new report.
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Fake YouTube sites target Syrian activists with malware
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has recently spotted a fake YouTube site that's serving malware to Syrian activists.
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Anonymous hacks Panda Security in response to LulzSec arrests
Anonymous has retaliated against the arrests of five LulzSec members. The hacktivist group has defaced multiple Panda Security domains as well as stolen the e-mail credentials of 114 employees.
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Ethical-iPhone 5 activists deliver their plea to Apple (photos)
Members of Change.org and SumofUs hand-deliver 250,000 petitions in a show of strength for their call for Apple to adopt more ethical practices when building its products.
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Extortion failed - Anonymous posts Symantec source code
Anonymous activists have released source code for Symantec's PCAnywhere onto the Pirate Bay file-sharing website after an extortion attempt apparently failed.
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iProtest: 'Graduates with no future' or 'spoilt hippies'? (part 2)
A study of the 4 top tools for protest organisation and information exchange, and the reasons behind why the Internet has influenced so many activist events around the world.
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Mainstream media is struggling to find a business model -- activist media doesn't need one
Media produced by activists will flood our channels as mainstream media continues to shrink. It's bad news for society.
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Richard M. Stallman on Steve Jobs: "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone"
Stallman: "Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died."
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Egyptian activist charged with inciting violence via Facebook
The Egyptian Military Prosecution has charged 26-year-old activist and blogger Asmaa Mahfouz over a Facebook post.
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Israel uses Facebook to blacklist pro-Palestinian protesters
Israel leveraged Facebook to identify pro-Palestinian individuals interested in entering the country.
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Libyan dictator warns against use of Facebook, 40 protesters injured
Libya is following in the footsteps of Tunisia and Egypt. The country's dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, has already warned against the use of Facebook.
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Are Android device OEMs Motorola, LG and Samsung distributing Oracle code online?
Intellectual property activist Florian Mueller offers up another blog installment in which he uncovers the presence of redistributed Oracle/Sun Java files in the Android codebase. He shifts focus...
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UPDATE - Florian Mueller: Copyright-infringing material in Android codebase
Intellectual property activist Florian Mueller has been trawling through the Android codebase and discovered a number of examples of what appears to be copyright infringement.
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Nutball Wikileaks founder tries to blackmail Amnesty International
It's starting to look like Assange has somehow lost his way, becoming more deranged opportunist than activist.
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No such thing as an unemcumbered codec
Digital content is a patent minefield, and each country has its own set of mines.
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Sarah Palin's Yahoo account hijacked, e-mails posted online
On the heels of media reports that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was using a private Yahoo e-mail account (gov.palin@yahoo.com) to conduct Alaska state business, hackers have...
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Chinese protesters defy media control with text power
Get ready for the new grassroots organizing tool ... the cellphone. In China, where traditional media is tightly controlled, activists are using text messaging to quickly generate protests against...
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Photo: Lawrence Lessig at LinuxWorld
Prominent lawyer and activist takes the stage to say what content creators can learn from open-source programmers.
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Photo: Chinese activists protest Yahoo
Members of a political party decry passing of information to Beijing that led to a journalist's jailing.
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