NSA Copies All Internet Data, Creates Dossiers on Every User: Report
J.P. Hicks Activist Post The Associated Press dropped a bombshell report yesterday that claims the NSA’s secret Internet spy program, Prism, is just a small…
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Shield Law Sponsor Not Sure Bloggers “Deserve” Free Speech Rights
“You can sit in your mother’s basement and chat away, I don’t care,” says Lindsey Graham (R-SC) but then asks if “they [bloggers] deserve First…
How to Hide Your Digital Communications from Big Brother
J.P. Hicks Activist Post Big Brother is hoping to eliminate anonymous digital communication, but a new messaging protocol may provide privacy advocates a way around…
Is Bitcoin’s Largest Exchange Betting Against It?
J.P. Hicks Activist Post MtGox.com is the largest Bitcoin exchange on the Internet handling roughly 80% of all trades. The recent wild fluctuations in the…
Who’s to Blame for Bitcoin’s Flash Crash and What’s Its Real Value?
Wiki image J.P. Hicks Activist Post Bitcoin’s stunning rise in value in the past month was largely viewed as an unnatural market bubble that would…
10 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Buy with Bitcoins
J.P. Hicks Activist Post Last week I wrote about 5 digital currencies besides Bitcoins which had some people still wondering what crypto-currencies are and what…
5 Crypto-Currencies You’ve Never Heard Of
J.P. Hicks Activist Post Since the theft of depositors in Cyprus, Bitcoin has reached amazing new heights in both popularity and value. Over a $1…
Who Needs SOPA? Media Giants Collude to Punish File Sharing
Corporate policing of the Internet begins today J.P. Hicks Activist Post The new Copyright Alert System(CAS), often referred to as the “six strikes anti-piracy scheme”…
EU Court to Decide if Hyperlinking is Copyright Infringement
Dees Illustration J.P. Hicks Activist Post In what seems like an absurd court case, the European Union Court of Justice is trying to decide if…
Hackschooling: Turning Creative Kids Into Happy Adults
Don’t let your kids become droids Dees Illustration J.P. Hicks Activist Post When 13-year-old Logan LaPlante grows up, he wants to be happy and healthy….
Could Amazon’s New Virtual Currency Rival Bitcoin?
J.P. Hicks, Contributor Activist Post Last week Amazon announced a new way for customers to buy and sell goods on its massive online retail platform:…
Perpetual Victim Mentality is Doomed to Fail
J.P. Hicks Activist Post Do you ever say “nothing good ever happens to me?” Or do many of your conversations with friends end with “can…
Decentralized Internet Being Built to Thwart Censorship
J.P. Hicks Activist Post Bloggers represent one of the last bastions of independent journalism. Since the Internet presents a level playing field for information, it’s…
Have You Found Your Treasure Yet?
“Wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.” — Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist Image source J.P. Hicks Activist Post We are…