The Justice Department indicted Matthew Keys, the deputy social media editor for Reuters.com, for allegedly conspiring with members of Anonymous and giving them login information so they could “hack into and alter” the Los Angeles Times‘ website. The indictment should raise suspicion, however, because Hector Xavier Monsegur or ”Sabu,” who the FBI flipped and used to catch and, to [...]

To recognize the power of protest music, acknowledge its role in keeping dissent alive and how musicians translate social issues and systemic problems into song, The Dissenter has launched a daily feature that highlights a protest song every weekday. The band’s name, Desaparecidos, is Spanish and translates into “disappeared ones.” It refers to leftists arrested [...]

Members of the hacktivist group Anonymous have released sixty hours of footage of the raid by the New York Police Department against Occupy Wall Street on November 15, 2011. The footage posted is from the NYPD’s Technical Assistance Research Unit (TARU), a surveillance unit that is regularly present at political demonstrations to film police actions. [...]

(photo: DonkeyHotey) WikiLeaks has announced that its website is now operational again after “installing substantial extra capacity” and additional support through CloudFlare, a website security service capable of blocking threats and limiting “abusive bots and crawlers” from wasting “bandwidth and server resources.” The media organization described how much difficulty they were having overcoming the attack on [...]

The independent news website Truthout obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Occupy Wall Street. They were requested by the website’s investigative reporter Jason Leopold. The news outlet was the first to request the records. The request was made in October of last year. [...]

For the past nine days, I have been live blogging the publishing of Stratfor emails by WikiLeaks allegedly obtained from Anonymous. I did not get a live blog post up so, before the day is over, here’s an update on some developments related to WikiLeaks, Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused whistleblower to WikiLeaks and the arrests [...]

8:50 PM EST A fine op-ed from Mark Levine on Stratfor: …Stratfor’s raison d’etre would seem to be to provide a sinecure for out of work or wanna-be spies, intelligence analysts, security officials and “diplomats” who aren’t high enough up the CIA or State Department food chain or respected enough to land the more plumb positions [...]

10:35 AM EST More discussion of Carlos the Jackal. This comes from a source, who says “the information I have is based on a mix of public and classified information that I was exposed to during my service in Israel and Europe.” He is not “sure what information is still classified” so he suggests not mentioning [...]

10:48 PM EST And, here are a bunch of emails with Stratfor employees going back and forth about what they think of Anonymous and the war Anonymous supposedly declared on the Mexican drug cartels after a hacker was kidnapped. 10:36 PM EST McClatchy reports on the emails that look at the discontent in the Venezuelan [...]

UPDATE – 1:33 PM EST I will be appearing on RT’s “The Alyona Show” at 6:30 PM EST to talk about the release. UPDATE – 1:30 PM EST James Ball of The Guardian, who left WikiLeaks to work for The Guardian and doesn’t like the whistleblowing organization much at all, appears to be the first [...]