the end game
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope.
1 August 2021
digital rights
our fight for digital rights
After the election, the job of unwinding mandatory data retention and the assistance and access mess will be upon us.
17 May 2019
cypherpunks and surveillance power
Let’s go looking for the best examples of how people are building something better, something that delivers on the internet’s original promise. Let’s signal boost the good stuff for a change.
1 April 2019
remember wikileaks
Despite this remarkable publishing record, almost nobody in the mainstream press writes about the disclosures themselves. Instead, commentary is drawn almost exclusively to the character and conduct of founder and editor Julian Assange.
19 December 2018
trapped in a national security script
In two crisp sentences on an Insiders panel, News Corp columnist Niki Savva expressed everything that’s wrong with how the media and political classes deal with the strands of authoritarianism creeping into Australian life
6 December 2018
maths wins the war on maths
The people demanding new surveillance powers have proven that they cannot be trusted with the powers they already have.
16 August 2018
the wikileaks test
Way back in the 1920s, Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach formalised a scheme for diagnosing schizophrenia that involved showing abstract patterns of ink blots to patients, and drawing conclusions about their mental state from how they interpreted the images. Where one subject sees a butterfly in the enigmatic splatters, maybe you see a pair of wolves poledancing, or whatever, it’s on you. First published at Crikey The WikiLeaks organisation has operated as a kind of political Rorschach test since at least 2010, when they exploded into mass consciousness with the Collateral Murder footage of journalists and bystanders being executed by
25 July 2018
a debased abuse of power
Witness K revealed a shocking misuse of Australia’s spy agencies. It’s time that those responsible face the consequences.
23 July 2018
1 July 2018