look should you be so inclined here's a #koala corridor petition up in #appin https://tec.good.do/savemallatycreek/ 
Join me in supporting the Save the vital Mallaty Creek Koala Corridor Campaign

Mallaty Creek is currently a connected, intact, and active East West Koala Corridor in Campbelltown but the government plans to terminate it. An additional over/underpass across Appin Road at Mallaty Creek would also vastly improve outcomes for koalas and be closer to best practice advice for the distance between underpasses. Sign the Petition to tell the NSW Minister for Environment directly to save Mallaty Creek now!

EFF Challenges 'Legal Bullying' of Sites Reporting on Alleged Appin 'Hacking-for-Hire' - Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader v3rgEz shared this report from MuckRock: Founded in 2003, Appin has been described as a cybersecurity company and an educational consulting firm. Appin was also, according to Reuters reporting and extensive marketing materials, a prolific "hacking for hire" service, steali...

The Red Book of Appin - Appin of Yesteryear - Appin, Argyll, Scotland

Poem about the Red Book of Appin IT’S a far, far cry to Appin, But worth your while to go If ye would learn the secrets That Highland witches know: They’re written in a red book Concealed within a rock; Its iron bands keep reiving hands From meddling wi’ the lock. There still are folk

Appin of Yesteryear - Appin, Argyll, Scotland

Flickr doesn't seem to be cooperating this morning.

So; have this photo of Castle Stalker taken yesterday, as I drove to the Quaker Meeting, in the village hall, Port Appin.

#CastleStalker #appin #WestHighlands

EFF Helps News Organizations Push Back Against Legal Bullying from Cyber Mercenary Group

Cyber mercenaries present a grave threat to human rights and freedom of expression. They have been implicated in surveillance, torture, and even murder of human rights defenders, political candidates, and journalists. One of the most effective ways that the human rights community pushes back...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
A Confession Exposes India’s Secret Hacking Industry

David D. Kirkpatrick writes about the complicated business of India’s secret hacking industry, where hackers are hired to carry out cyberattacks on the Internet.

The New Yorker
Sorry Appin, We’re Not Taking Down Our Article About Your Attempts To Silence Reporters

Back in December, we wrote about Appin. We were not writing about the reports (of which there have been many) that the organization that started as a sort of cybersecurity training school, but morp…

Techdirt

This is the #StreisandEffect in action for #Appin:

“A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came The Censorship – And Now The Backlash”, Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/appin-training-centers-lawsuits-censorship/).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39221309

#India #Censorship #PressFreedom #Journalism #Intimidation

A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash

A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker-for-hire past—and the legal threats aimed at making them disappear.

WIRED