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ISIS Terrorists Kill Female Journalist, Hack Facebook Account

The terrorists first murdered the female journalist Ruqia Hassan and then hacked her Facebook account to spy on her contacts. The terrorist from Daesh/ISIS terrorist hacked into the Facebook account of a female journalist (Ruqia Hassan) whose execution was kept secret by the group for 3 months to gain information on her friends and colleague through her […]

Privacy Advocates Launch Anonymous Calling App

For those who seek privacy while working online,  you now have a solution in “Warble,” an Anonymous calling app for Android, iOS and Windows OS. Warble is an app developed to allow users to communicate via phone calls without getting spied on by Govt agencies, who are always on the look out for data collection. […]

FBI Caught and Sued for Faking Associated Press Website

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has been sued by the Associated Press (AP) for the suppression of documents about FBI agent who impersonated an AP journalist and created a fake news story. Last year, AP filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI in search of the documents related to the […]

What is Enforced Transparency? A Western Trend?

The concept of Transparency carries a simple meaning, if practiced by governments it will empower the masses, place them in a position to expose misuse of power, corruption and defend their democracies. A namesake transparency will only be reduced to a smokescreen and a word to keep everything dark hidden and under wraps, something needs […]

Ethiopia is Hacking US Journalists in Virginia Using Spyware

Italy’s security firm Hacking Team is providing Ethiopia with off-the-shelf spyware, and have been expanding their repressive reach far overseas in the United States. A report from Citizen Lab, published February 12th, state that numerous journalists working for the Ethiopian Satellite Television Service (ESAT), were targeted by a member of Ethiopia’s internal information security apparatus: […]

Edward Snowden and journalist Laura Poitras Win Truth-Telling Award

Both were key players in exposing the US government surveillance program that has outraged the national and international communities alike. Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden Ex-NSA tech Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras were awarded the 2014 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, an award named after the Vietnam veteran Ron Ridenhour, a whistleblower and an investigative journalist, who […]