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The Indian "hacker-for-hire" operation, Appin, obtained an order from a court in New Delhi that forced the global newswire Reuters to remove investigative reporting about Appin's criminal enterprise. Users of Appin's services included American lawyers, Russian oligarchs, and Scandinavian businesses, among others. With that court order from New Delhi, Appin's American lawyers demanded that other media outlets remove their reporting, and many have complied. Appin's lawyers issued threats to the Internet Archive, the New Yorker, various podcasts, and many others. Litigation between Reuters and Appin is ongoing. What threats can this case pose to free speech and the integrity of cyber threat research?
Cooper Quintin is a security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the EFF Threat Lab. and board member of Open Archive. He has worked on projects including Privacy Badger, Canary Watch, and analysis of state-sponsored malware campaigns such as Dark Caracal. Cooper has given security trainings for activists, nonprofit workers, and vulnerable populations around the world. He previously worked building websites for nonprofits, including Greenpeace, Adbusters, and the Chelsea Manning Support Network. Cooper was also an editor and contributor to the hacktivist journal, Hack This Zine. In his spare time, he enjoys making music, visualizing a solar-punk communitarian future, and playing with his kids.
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Alexander Urbelis is an internationally recognized technology attorney and cybersecurity expert who is the general counsel and CISO of the Ethereum Name Service. In addition to his practice of law, Alex also served as the CISO of the NFL, is a member of the technology advisory board of Human Rights First, and is a professor of law at King's College, London. Alex's federal service includes positions within the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Army JAG Corps, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. But most importantly, many of you know Alex as your favorite talking head on Off The Hook, and from his regular 2600 column "Artificial Interruption."
Emma Best is an investigative journalist, transparency advocate, and cofounder of Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets). She has filed thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests and published hundreds of articles appearing in outlets like MuckRock, Gizmodo, Motherboard, Unicorn Riot, The Outline, and Property of the People.
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Lorax Horne is a writer and journalist from Canada, Ecuador, and the United Kingdom. They work as an editor for DDoSecrets, helping to connect other journalists and researchers to the world's largest library of leaks. Their writing has appeared in Newsweek, The Guardian, and on the CBC.
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