Archive for 2011/12/11

Adding to suspicions that the Boston police and city officials sought to hide their actions from the public, police reportedly enforced a media blackout. Many officers were seen covering their badge numbers. According to Occupy Boston, “Credentialed press, citizen journalists, academic researchers, and Occupy Boston media members were repeatedly corralled and moved to surrounding areas 50 feet away or more, prohibiting many from thoroughly covering the raid.” Livestreamers, medics, and legal observers were also among those targeted and arrested.

http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-boston-we-might-have-been-evicted-we-shall-/

A lot of us are sympathetic to the things they’re saying

(video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySgWOH2Qw9o

However, they go a step further than just collecting IP-addresses and file-names by exposing all the harvested information to the public on their website.

People who visit the site immediately see their download history, as far as it’s available in the site’s database. In addition, they can also search for files or IP-addresses to find out who’s downloading what. At the time of writing the database has information on 51,274,000 users who together shared 103,200 torrents.

http://torrentfreak.com/i-know-what-you-downloaded-on-bittorrent-111210/

and it was just the beginning

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You can decide for yourself if I’m full of hot air

http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1011PSISBBVD/PPSIM965/PR