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With this blog I try to artistically commemorate the life and work of Aaron Swartz his battle for open information. - Swartzshield

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What if Facebook was used for good? Read the first issue of Hacktivist!

What if Mark Zuckerberg used Facebook to help the world? Well, then he'd be either Ed Hiccox or Nate Graft, stars of Archaia's new comic Hacktivist. Created by Alyssa Milano -yes, that Alyssa Milano- Hacktivist is about two young, brilliant co-founders of the omnipresent social network site YourLife, who secretly use its power to effect social change around the globe... until the government discovers their secret. You can read the entire first issue of Hacktivist here, free. If you like it, issue #2 is in comic stores today!

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Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion

Facebook Inc will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock, as the world's largest social network looks for ways to boost its popularity, especially

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The NSA "has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world."

The New York Times

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Spy on the NSA

Spy-back time. Capture your recording of the NSA.

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Internet surveillance: today is the day we fight back

Scott Ludlam: The debate in Australia is subdued -€“ thanks to a government who wants to shut it down in the name of national security. It'€™s time to turn up the volume...

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This campaign by Duval Guillaume Modem shows how easy it is to take over someones life. Be vigilant with personal info.

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A community-maintained distributed repository for datasets and scientific knowledge. Is this Aaron Swartz's dream coming true?

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Why Aaron Swartz Mattered

A year ago we lost Aaron Swartz, 26, to suicide. Or better, as the breadth of his work was wide and its depth, profound: In January we all lost Aaron Swartz to suicide. At 14, Aaron gave us RSS—the syndication protocol that feeds information across the Net automatically...

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Only a year ago the documentary Panopticon showed that Dutch people didn't really care about their online privacy. Seeing this video again makes me wonder if things have changed...

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Hack-proof your life: A guide to Internet privacy in 2014

2014 will be the year of SW4RTZSH13LD. Hacky New Year!

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Researchers show how to hijack a webcam without triggering the warning light

By now, hijacking laptop cameras is an old hacker trick, but new research dug up by The Washington Post suggests there may be a way to do it without setting off a MacBook's telltale warning light,...

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Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram

A ten-dimensional theory of gravity makes the same predictions as standard quantum physics in fewer dimensions.

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We are the Transparent Machines

Our society is obsessed with the conflicting concepts of transparency and privacy. We are “outraged” by the actions of the NSA, yet continue to willfully upload more and more of our personal information to Facebook and Google. This film explores the contradictory nature of our actions and beliefs regarding transparency.

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Aaron Swartz Granted Posthumous Award

Aaron Swartz was posthumously awarded the American Library Association’s James Madison Award "for his dedication to promoting and protecting public access to research and government information."  His father Robert Swartz accepted the award.

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Aaron’s Law is not just about Aaron Swartz, but rather about refocusing the law away from common computer and Internet activity and toward damaging hacks.

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/aarons-law-is-finally-here/