Mandy Nagy | Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion - Part 23
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Mandy Nagy (aka "Liberty Chick") was an investigative writer and researcher. She primarily covered the institutional left, protest movements, hacking and cybercrime, and technology. After suffering a serious stroke in September 2014, Mandy no longer was able to work at Legal Insurrection, but she's always on our minds and in our hearts. For more information, see here.

Leave it to MSNBC to provide Alec Baldwin with his very own platform. From the Hollywood Reporter: It's Official: Alec Baldwin to Host Talk Show on MSNBC: Alec Baldwin has finalized a deal to host a weekly night-time talk show on MSNBC. The program - Up Late...

If you've ever tried to use Twitter search to find someone's old tweet, you've likely been disappointed to find that the results leave you digging through only the most recent tweets, and that's if they even match your search terms at all. I've mentioned previously in...

Law enforcement personnel are soon to get their own social networking site. From FOX News: The final stages are near completion for the launch of a law enforcement social media network designed exclusively for the men and women in blue. Created by former high-profile New York City police...

The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has since early June been reporting on leaked documents obtained by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, told a Brazilian television program Sunday that the NSA read emails of the Presidents of Brazil and Mexico. From NBC News: Glenn Greenwald told Globo...

The Syrian Electronic Army is claiming credit for defacing the recruitment website of the US Marines. https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/status/374427649193439233 Marines.com, which is operated separately from the official Marines website, was changed in the early morning hours on Monday to display a message from the hacker(s).  The message told US...

A Pennsylvania hospital is opening the country’s first inpatient treatment program for people struggling with "severe internet addiction." From FOX News: Treatment facilities have sprung up in recent years, but a psychiatric hospital in central Pennsylvania is now set to become the country's first facility of its...

Edward Snowden and the NSA debate seem to have lost some significant momentum on Twitter in light of the current discussion about what the US will or won't be doing about the situation in Syria. Business Insider noticed that Syria Tensions Have Knocked The NSA Spying...

Protesters have gathered outside the White House to oppose intervention in Syria as Obama takes the podium. https://twitter.com/joshledermanAP/status/373854016243245056 https://twitter.com/arishapiro/status/373855135044497408 h/t Bruce Majors Aside from just the typical and always expected ANSWER Coalition anti-war protest crowd, who are publicizing demonstrations across the country, seems like an interesting mix of some...

The Syrian Electronic Army, which has been grabbing headlines in recent days after its attack that disrupted the NY Times and Twitter, says it may retaliate using "methods of causing harm" for the US economy if the US strikes Syria. From ABC News: "When we hacked media...

A few readers who noticed have asked me why I didn't refer to yesterday's attack by the Syrian Electronic Army as a "hacking" in my coverage (other than referring to SEA as "hackers" for simplicity's sake).  It's a good question, and one from which we...