U.S. Government continues its War on Anonymous.
Lorax, voice of Anonymous speaking truth to power
22 May 2014 - Lorax was arrested in Australia. He reached out to those he felt had an aim worthy of promotion on many occasions, with such causes as freedom of speech, freedom on the internet (…)
22 April 2015
Matt DeHart Family sent back to United States
DeHart family heads back to the U.S. after failed asylum claim. Their final night in Canada mirrored their first — staying in a hotel near the border — but their anxiety was the polar opposite. (…)
3 April 2015
Fidel Salinas was placed into solitary confinement
After weeks of solitary, Fidel Salinas finally receives semblance of humane treatment. Fidel Salinas faced up to 440 years in prison for allegedly disrupting the normal operation of a government (…)
16 March 2015
Matt DeHart named as third Courage beneficiary
Courage, the international organisation dedicated to the protection of truth-tellers, has announced that its new beneficiary will be Matt DeHart. Matt DeHart is a 30-year-old former US National (…)
2 March 2015
Dennis Collins was sentenced in Virginia
Dennis Collins, last of Anonymous anti-copyright hacktivists sentenced in Virginia. Dennis Collins aka “Owen” and a dozen others were charged in 2013 with what the Justice Department called a (…)
21 February 2015
Fidel Salinas refused to be an FBI Spy
Fidel Salinas says he was charged after refusing to help FBI. Fidel Salinas currently serving a six-month prison sentence for computer crimes now says that authorities asked him to help the (…)
20 February 2015
Dennis Collins “aka Owen” Heads to Court on February 20
Dennis Collins “aka Owen” is a defendant in both the Paypal 14 and Payback 13 case. He will stand before the judge in Virginia where he has accepted a plea deal which could result in up to a (…)
28 January 2015
Barrett Brown and the Cult of Surveillance
Free speech and “the Cult of Surveillance.” It’s 2015 and I have been giving serious thought to personal activism, collectives like Anonymous, whisteblowers, and the media. Pondering a great (…)
24 January 2015
Barrett Brown Sentenced to 63 Months in Prison
Barrett Brown’s allocution / sentencing statement. “If we don’t have Jeremy Hammond, if we don’t have Edward Snowden, if we don’t have Chelsea Manning, Barrett Brown, we don’t have a free (…)
23 January 2015
Jeremy Hammond - An Anonymous hacker in prison
I’m an Anonymous hacker in prison, and I am not a crook. I’m an activist. We may have hacked Sony back in the day, but we are still a social justice movement, from economic inequality to police (…)
19 December 2014
Ryan Ackroyd - LulzSec, 50 days of Lulz
Ryan and three other members of LulzSec were jailed in 2013. Ryan Ackroyd aka Kayla (#LulzSec) fiddled nervously with the microphone clipped to his shirt as about 200 fellow students crowded (…)
18 December 2014
The ugliness of betrayal. Sabu was arrested in June 2011 and identified as Hector Xavier Monsegur, a 28-year old unemployed father of two from New York’s Lower East Side. He later turned (…)
15 December 2014
