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A man in a Guy Fawkes mask smokes while joining supporters of the Anonymous movement taking part in the global "Million Mask March" protests in New York, on November 5, 2014.

For many geeks, Anonymous is the gateway drug to political and social activism

Technology

Anonymous has evolved from a band of online pranksters into a legitimate group focused on social activism. But just how much impact is it making? It’s uneven, but that doesn’t mean the group isn’t making a difference, especially in the lives of budding activists.

The World

MasterCard, Other Websites Downed by Hackers Supporting Assange

Conflict & Justice

Is Hyperloop the Future of Travel?

Development & Education

Paying students to drop out of college

The World

Struggling Wikileaks Stops Publishing Classified Files

Global Politics
The World

Mastercard, Other Sites Brought Down by Wikileaks Supporters

Conflict & Justice

All morning, hackers claiming to be fighting back on behalf of Julian Assange and Wikileaks have been attacking major websites that recently stopped offering services to the organization. “Operation Payback” has already brought down Mastercard’s site, Paypal is under attack, as is a bank that froze Julian Assange’s accounts. Meanwhile, Julian Assange is in custody […]

The World

Julian Assange: Pariah to E-Commerce

Conflict & Justice

In the run up to the arrest of Julian Assange, large companies, including Amazon, Visa and Paypal, refused to continue doing business with WikiLeaks, saying the site and its staff had violated various terms of service. Being dropped has meant WikiLeaks has had to change its online domain name, source its documents from a different […]

The World

Online ‘hacktivists,’ their methods and motivations

Conflict & Justice

We speak with Gregg Housh, an Internet activist who has in the past worked with Anonymous, and Martin Libicki, Senior Management Scientist at the Rand Corporation.

The World

Arrest of Julian Assange sparks online ‘operation payback’

Arts, Culture & Media

For the details on this distributed online campaign, we speak with New York Times Magazine and Wired contributing writer Mattathias Schwartz, and James Lewis, Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The World

Joined lives, separate finances: more couples keep money apart

More and more couples are trying to avoid those money fights by keeping their finances separate. In a 2009 survey by PayPal, 57 percent of couples said they kept all or some of their money apart, up from 48 percent in 2008.