The US can lock up hackers, but it can’t crush their spirit | Laurie Penny | Comment is free

Le procès a également été entaché de soupçons de conflit d’intérêt : le mari de la juge chargée du dossier, Loretta A. Preska, était directement concerné par les courriels de Stratfor publiés par WikiLeaks, puisqu’il est employé par un cabinet d’avocats travaillant en étroite collaboration avec Stratfor.

#hackers #répression

Jeremy Hammond Sentenced To 10 Years, Notes Sabu And FBI Helped Him Hack Foreign Governments | FDL News Desk
▻http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/11/15/jeremy-hammond-sentenced-to-10-years-notes-sabu-and-fbi-helped-him

It would seem as though there is a lot more to this case than meets the eye.

la liste des #prisonniers_politiques d’Obama commence à être sérieusement longue…

▻http://seenthis.net/messages/196863
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/198904

The US can lock up hackers, but it can’t crush their spirit
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/14/us-lock-up-hackers-jeremy-hammond

Jeremy Hammond is not the first information activist to be made a martyr by the US state, and he is unlikely to be the last. There are a lot of things you can do, if you are the most powerful nation on Earth, to make individuals afraid. You can destroy their chance of a safe and happy future. You can lock them up for years. But the one thing you can’t do, ever, is force them to respect you – and if you can’t do that, on a basic level, you have already lost.