Hacker steals patient records in Virginia: demands $10M ransom

The FBI is currently investigating a $10 million ransom demand from a hacker, or a group of hackers, who, on April 30, appear to have broken in to the Virginia government site and stolen patient records that also records that track prescription drug abuse. About 8.3 million...

JWT Ad Agency Offers 90 Things to Watch in 2009

Ever wonder what trends, fads and buzzwords are likely to become popular during the next 12 months?  Wonder no more.  JWT, one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, released a list of 90...

Palin Hackers could skate because of DOJ policy

The Department of Justice does not like a court decision over emails, and that policy could allow the Palin hackers a backdoor out of prosecution."Though federal law prohibits the unauthorized access of someone's...

Will Wikileaks Revolutionize Journalism?

I've been keeping my eye on Wikileaks over the past few months, as a potential source of eyewitness footage and contextual documentation for news stories that we've covered on NowPublic. Although the site...

Web Site Shut Down Raises Censorship Questions

The Feb. 15th order by a Federal judge, which attempted to shut down an entire web site by wiping its name from the Internet Domain Name system, is raising serious censorship questions. The judge issued the order at the request of the Swiss-based Julius Baer Bank, which...

Kenyan President Moi's 'corruption' laid bare

A follow-up article in the Daily Telegraph UK to the leaked report from the whistleblower site wikileaks.org on the multi-billion dollar corruption scandal around former Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi and his two sons & associates. A very curious thing is that Kroll and...

Kenya, Africa, Arap Moi and the looted billions

A post from the Wikileaks mailing list details the looting of that country's coffers by the Daniel Arap Moi regime. It reads like a high-finance political thriller, and what precipitated the leak was the fact that the new president has now gotten into an alliance with Arap...

Will Wikileaks Keep Anyone Honest?

I, for one, am hopeful that it can. Wikileaks is a website that allows anyone to anonymously post confidential information as a means of providing a more permanent, public record of corporate or governmental wrongdoing. Why do people trust Wikileaks? Because it would defeat...

Wikileaks - the truth is in there...somewhere

Political activists and whistleblowers may have gained a new friend in Wikileaks, an ambitious project that allows anyone to anonymously publish documents to its website. By allowing anonymous, untraceable...

More Votes Than Registered Voters

The mainstream media censored the vast majority of the evidence of fraud, so that most Americans to this day, have never heard a fraction of what was amiss.

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