The activist accused by the United States government of hacking into the private intelligence firm, Stratfor, and releasing the firm’s emails to WikiLeaks pled guilty to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). He now faces up to ten years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on September 6 of this year. [...]

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 [...]

The federal judge presiding over the case of Jeremy Hammond, who faces charges for allegedly hacking into the private intelligence firm Stratfor, has denied a defense motion to recuse herself. Hammond’s defense argued that it appeared there was a conflict of interest since her husband had his email and major corporate clients of the law [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

A consensus has emerged during the presidency of Barack Obama. His administration is increasingly regarded as the worst on issues related to freedom of information and transparency. Today, Josh Gerstein of POLITICO has a story that gives voice to this emerging consensus, which more and more open government advocates hold despite the fact that the Obama [...]

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 [...]

UPDATE – 10:12 PM EST There will be more emails very soon so, if you are losing interest in the release, I remind you that only around 650 emails of over 5 million have been released. Also, let me introduce you to a site I used to regularly publish to and a crew that has [...]

UPDATE – 8:00 PM EST Good round-up on what the emails reveal about the US’ brutal, often condescending diplomacy toward New Zealand UPDATE – 7:45 PM EST Only a handful of emails released today. Only 643 emails of five million or so emails released thus far. There aren’t likely to be anymore emails released today. [...]