Barrett Brown

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: We catch up with 20 headlines showing some of the ways we're winning - from eagles vs. drones to freed cats and whistleblowers.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: We catch up with 20 headlines showing some of the ways we're winning - from eagles vs. drones to freed cats and whistleblowers.

Snowden as Samson, bringing the puzzle palace down around his head; Manning as Prometheus, tortured for her gift to mankind by ceaseless humiliation at the hands of dim jarhead martinets; the men who exposed the drone-massacre sweatshops, beggared by government decree; the helpless black witnesses of Ferguson and Baltimore, always photographed silhouetted by leaping flames like victims of auto-da-fé instead of killer cops.

Snowden as Samson, bringing the puzzle palace down around his head; Manning as Prometheus, tortured for her gift to mankind by ceaseless humiliation at the hands of dim jarhead martinets; the men who exposed the drone-massacre sweatshops, beggared by government decree; the helpless black witnesses of Ferguson and Baltimore, always photographed silhouetted by leaping flames like victims of auto-da-fé instead of killer cops.

TOR Radio #93 | Kevin Gallagher joins us to discuss the latest on Barrett Brown's case, the decision by the US Attorney to drop the "linking" charges, why journalists should still care, and what to expect moving forward. Also, Gavin Orsay, House of Cards, and raising Barrett's profile.

By Hanni Fakhoury and Trevor Timm | EFF | July 19, 2013

Twitter was abuzz yesterday when an unknown person published what were alleged to be a group of passwords for the email accounts of Congressional staffers. Multiple journalists, including reporters from the Daily Beast and Buzzfeed, commented on the list while linking to it.