Favorite In August 2010, Stephen Kim, a highly-regarded intelligence analyst in the State Department, was indicted under the Espionage Act for divulging classified information to Fox News reporter James Rosen. If convicted at trial, he faced 10 to 15 years in prison. Kim allowed me to film his life in intimate detail from the period…
Stephen Kim Spoke to a Reporter. Now He’s in Jail. This Is His Story.
Favorite ON THE MORNING of June 11, 2009, James Rosen stepped inside the State Department, scanned his building badge and made his way to the Fox News office in the busy press room on the second floor. It was going to be a hectic day. Like other reporters working the phones that morning, Rosen was…
Anonymous Companies Fighting National Security Letters Back Twitter’s NSL Battle
Favorite EFF’s Clients’ Identities Must Remain Secret, But Still Speak Out About Unconstitutional Gag Orders San Francisco – Two companies who must remain anonymous about their fight against secret government demands for information known as national security letters (NSLs) are backing Twitter’s lawsuit over its rights to publish information about NSLs it may have received.…
Researchers Find ‘Astonishing’ Malware Linked to NSA Spying
Favorite Security researchers have uncovered highly sophisticated malware that is linked to a secret National Security Agency hacking operation exposed by The Intercept last year. Russian security firm Kaspersky published a report Monday documenting the malware, which it said had been used to infect thousands of computer systems and steal data in 30 countries around…
Ukrainian Forces Recover Downed Russian Drone
Favorite MARIUPOL, Ukraine — A Russian drone was shot down over the weekend during heavy fighting against separatist forces near the government-held port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian forces. The drone was quickly identified as a Russian-designed and manufactured drone designated E08 by its manufacturer, the Enics company, whose logo and…
Photo Hobbyist Attacked by Patent Bully
Favorite EFF Asks Court to Invalidate Junk Patent on ‘Vote-for-Your-Favorite’ Online Competitions San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), together with Durie Tangri LLP, is defending a photo hobbyist against an outrageous patent suit from a company that claims to hold the rights to online competitions on social networks where users vote for the…
Hailed as a Model for Successful Intervention, Libya Proves to be the Exact Opposite
Favorite When Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003 by U.S. forces, Iraq War advocates boastfully celebrated the event as proof that they were right and used it to mock war opponents (Joe Lieberman and John Kerry, for instance, gleefully exploited the event to demand that Howard Dean admit his war opposition was wrong). When Muammar Gaddafi was forced…
EFF Calls on Syrian Government to Release Human Rights Defenders
Favorite EFF has joined seventy human rights and free speech organizations in calling on the Syrian government to release Mazen Darwish, Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Ghrer, three free speech activists who were arrested on February 16, 2012 in a raid on the offices of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM). Darwish…
“Oh My God, This is Way Off”: New Investigation Shows Texas is Likely Set to Kill An Innocent Man
Favorite Kevin Gannon, a retired detective sergeant with the New York Police Department, spent just 10 minutes looking at official documents related to the case of Rodney Reed — slated for execution in Texas on March 5 — before concluding that something was very, very wrong. It was October 2014 and Gannon was working as…
Prison Dispatches from the War on Terror: Confessed Plotter Gives Insight into Radicalization
Favorite In 2006, 21-year-old Fahim Ahmad was arrested and charged with leading a group of young men who planned to bomb power stations, take hostages and “behead politicians” in order to compel the Canadian government to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. Ahmad was also accused of planning to travel abroad to join Islamist insurgents fighting in foreign conflicts.…