(A version of this story, slightly shortened for space, will appear in the January 16th issue of Forbes.) One morning in mid-August, seven months into the Arab Spring protests and government ...

One morning in mid-August, seven months into the Arab Spring protests and govern- ment crackdowns in which thousands have been killed, something strange happened on Syria’s Internet. As users aimed ...

Electronic mischief-making has come into its own this year. Between WikiLeaks, Anonymous and more recently LulzSec, hacking cults are becoming high-profile irritants. But Peter Fein, the human face of ...

Telecomix hackers helping Syrians detect and avoid government surveillance online Hacking group Telecomix has been helping Syrian protestors and insurgents to avoid surveillance, and recently revealed ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — When a member of the hacker group Anonymous in February posted online the email addresses and passwords of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian President, his wife Asma al-Assad, and ...

On a rainy November morning in Northern Virginia, at a cafe where elderly women are meeting for pastries, Andrew Lewis is hacking into one of the most tightly controlled police states in the Middle ...

This past Saturday at the Salon des Solidarités in Paris, a meeting of ‘Hackers and NGOs‘ took place. There, between a Médecin du Monde stand and a stall selling fair trade jewellery, attendees ...

The battle for control and circulation of information on the internet is the topic of a Skype lecture by Telecomix hacktivist Stephan Urbach at the Albany campus on Tuesday. Mr Urbach is part of the ...

Hello Outriders and season's greetings to all of you! In the last edition of the podcast we looked back a little and a lot and then looked forward into 2012 for another year of interesting electrical ...

This week Jamillah looks back over the year with Telecomix and ahead to the Alan Turing Centenary.