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Hacking the Law: Fights Over Cyber-Security and a Silicon Valley Divide  18 April 2013 
Source: SF Weekly - Posted by Dave Wreski   
To some, hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer is a cause celebré. To others, he's a famous douchebag. To many, he's a polarizing figure in a debate that's roiled Silicon Valley, pitting established tech companies against rogue innovators.
 
LulzSec Hackers Plead Guilty To CIA, Sony Attacks  11 April 2013 
Source: Information Week - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Three men admit in London courtroom they launched distributed denial of service attacks and defacements that targeted a variety of websites.
 
Spanish Linux users launch legal challenge to Microsoft’s secure boot  01 April 2013 
Source: InfoSecurity Magazine - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Hispalinux, a Spanish association representing Linux users and developers, has filed an EU complaint against Windows 8’s UEFI Secure Boot, calling it “a de facto technological jail for computer booting systems.”
 
Infamous Hacker Weev Sentenced to 41 Months in Jail for AT&T ‘Hack’  19 March 2013 
Source: BetaBeat - Posted by Dave Wreski   
He'll also have to pay AT&T $73,000 in damages. Andrew Auernheimer, better known by his pseudonym “weev,” was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for exploiting an AT&T security flaw that allowed him to collect and publish the email addresses of 114,000 AT&T iPad owners.
 
Feds Say Man Deserved Arrest Because Jacket Said ‘Occupy Everything’  04 March 2013 
Source: Wired - Posted by Anthony Pell   
A Florida man deserved to be arrested inside the Supreme Court building last year for wearing a jacket painted with “Occupy Everything,” and is lucky he was only apprehended on unlawful entry charges, the Department of Justice says.
 
Supreme Court Thwarts Challenge to Warrantless Surveillance  28 February 2013 
Source: Wired - Posted by Anthony Pell   
A divided Supreme Court halted a legal challenge Tuesday to a once-secret warrantless surveillance project that gobbles up Americans’ electronic communications, a program that Congress eventually legalized in 2008 and again in 2012.
 
Obama executive order on cyber attacks  14 February 2013 
Source: Stuff NZ - Posted by Anthony Pell   
US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order seeking better protection of the country's critical infrastructure from cyber attacks that are a growing concern to the economy and national security.
 
Executive Order Aims to Facilitate Sharing of Information on Threats  13 February 2013 
Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski   
President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to make it easier to disseminate classified information on threats against critical infrastructure systems and to lay the groundwork for obtaining information from the private sector that would help the government protect critical infrastructures in the U.S.
 
Feds Pile On More Charges Against Anonymous Agitator Barrett Brown  25 January 2013 
Source: Wired - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Barrett Brown, a self-proclaimed spokesman for Anonymous, has been hit with new charges by authorities in Texas for concealing evidence.
 
IMAGiNE BitTorrent Group Sysop Speaks Out as He Heads to Prison  22 January 2013 
Source: TorrentFreak - Posted by Anthony Pell   
A convicted member of the now-defunct online movie piracy group IMAGiNE has left a public statement before starting his 40-month prison term. Last Friday 53-year-old sysop Gregory Cherwonik of New York was transferred to a detention facility to serve his sentence. In his first public words on the case he criticizes the MPAA and the U.S. Department of Justice, among others.
 
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