About » Free Jeremy Hammond! (born December 1985) is a political activist from Chicago charged in a criminal complaint with crimes relating to the December 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting, Inc. ( Stratfor ). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is the founder of the computer security training website HackThisSite , [ 3 ] created in 2003 following his graduation from Glenbard East High School . [ 4 ] Arrest On March 5, 2012, Hammond was arrested by FBI agents in Bridgeport, Chicago [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] ahead of an indictment unsealed the following day in the Lower Manhattan federal district court. [ 8 ] He is one of six individuals from the United States , England and Ireland indicted, [ 3 ] [ 9 ] due to a cooperating witness known online as Sabu . [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Sentences On March 25, 2010, Hammond was sentenced to four days in the Cook County Department of Corrections, for taking part in a confrontation with the controversial Holocaust writer David Irving . Background See also HackThisSite Hacktivism References Perlroth, Nicole.
Goudie, Chuck. Free Jeremy Hammond - A support site for accused activist Jeremy Hammond. NSA & Big Brothers, suite. The Cyber Cold War. The United States is not giving up control of the Internet. Or more precisely, the management of some of the net’s core functions, such as the management of the root file, coordinated within ‘Made in the USA’ institutions such as ICANN or Verisign, who can (en masse) create or delete new domains (.somethings). Not that there hasn’t been, for many years, a concerted effort to change how the governance of the Internet works.
The latest attempt, still in progress, is centred on the upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12). Expected to take place in Dubai in December, the event is being run by the UN and one of its agencies, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The conference will provide an opportunity to review the “International Telecommunication Regulations” (ITR’s), which “govern how all kinds of information and communication networks are connected between countries“.
The latest version of the regulations dates back to…1988. Cmd + ctrl. New Public Sector Transparency Board and Public Data Transparency Principles. Russia, China, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan introduce proposed Internet 'code of conduct'