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• Keynote Speech at WordCamp Ottawa: WordPress for Revolutionaries!

  By raincoaster on July 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on raincoaster media:
  WordCamp Ottawa is on! Well, it’s on the 20th, 22nd, and 23rd of July! WordPress for Revolutionaries! An ambitious title, an ambitious talk, for my inaugural keynote speech! I’ve given a variation of this talk…

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• A Plea from Lauri Love

  By raincoaster on April 23, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on The Gad About Town:
  The waiting is torture enough. Any individual placed in confrontation with the legal system knows that the process somehow moves too quickly in the most painful ways and then too slowly in other,…

• Press Release: Swiss Domain Registry Switch threatening to disable wikileaks.ch

  By raincoaster on April 18, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on hacktivist culture:
  Statement from The Swiss Pirate Party in English, German and French. It also doubles as an open letter to Wikileaks and their team. F o r   i m m e d i a t…

• #FreeMartyG Operation Announced for Marty Gottesfeld, Alleged #Anonymous Hacker

  By raincoaster on August 31, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Marty Gottesfeld resides in custody, held without bail, for allegedly attacking a hospital’s website via DDoS, in retaliation for the hospital’s alleged (there’s that word again) mistreatment of Justina Pelletier. Well, the mistreatment was actually real, separating her legally and… Read More ›

• Who Is #Anonymous? A Viceland Video Report

  By raincoaster on July 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  This 22-minute video from Ben Makuch and the team at Viceland delves into the origin of Anonymous and their evolution from an amoral lulz-based prank collective to a “moralfagging,” weaponized activist hive. Featuring interviews with former LulzSec members Mustafa Al-Bassam… Read More ›

• Tyranny of Structurelessness?

  By raincoaster on June 24, 2016 • ( 10 )

  

  The recent sexual assault and bullying allegations against Jacob Applebaum, formerly of Tor, have caused the digital security community to re-examine itself in the quest to prevent similar situations from arising in the future. In this guest post from McGill… Read More ›

• FreeAnons Endorses September 9 National Prisoner Strike

  By raincoaster on June 22, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  This important post is borrowed (with permission of the author) from the FreeAnons website, and announces the semi-regular return of The Cryptosphere. Sorry we’ve been gone for more or less six solid months. Things are returning to our normal “extremely… Read More ›

• Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.

  By raincoaster on May 7, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on vellumatlanta:
  “The software is functioning as intended,” said Amber. “Wait,” I asked, “so it’s supposed to delete my personal files from my internal hard drive without asking my permission?” “Yes,” she replied. Maybe I’m Not Pressing the…

• Business Rocks 2016 Hackathon for the Homeless

  By raincoaster on April 29, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on hacktivist culture:
  Business Rocks 2016 has hosted a global hackathon in a bid to help solve the ever-growing problem of homelessness through technology. From Manchester’s City Centre to the shores of the Mediterranean, homelessness isn’t just about rough sleepers…

• Social Media Camp is Coming! Catch Us There!

  By raincoaster on April 25, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

    Yes, kittens, in a mere ten days Social Media Camp begins in Victoria, BC, with speakers including your humble editrix. Use the special discount code “Raincoaster” for $100 off registration package AND get a free lunch with moi in… Read More ›

• Crypto-Affirmations (or Crypto-Negations) for a Very Monday Monday

  By raincoaster on April 25, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  if you know what we mean. Today’s Crypto-Affirmations or rather their Debbie Downer equivalent, come to us from our old friend, Professor Gabriella Coleman of McGill University in Montreal. This one has just the right mix of adorable and soul-chilling,… Read More ›

• Edward Snowden Beams Into Vancouver, Talks #PanamaPapers, #BigData, #Security

  By raincoaster on April 21, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Edward Snowden skyped into Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre for a talk entitled “Big Data, Security, and Human Rights” on April 5, and here it is! We’re a little behind with our Snowden Events coverage, but I blame Simon Fraser University,… Read More ›

• Paying the Piper: #PanamaPapers, or How Your Ghost in the Shell Returns

  By raincoaster on April 19, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  Semi-regular contributor AnonyOdinn has long since moved off Twitter and onto Diaspora, but he continues to publish his blog at Cyberguerilla. That is why he is here today: somebody apparently took exception to something Cyberguerilla said (which may or may… Read More ›

• Hacking Homelessness at Business Rocks

  By raincoaster on April 15, 2016 • ( 3 )

  Originally posted on hacktivist culture:
  What do you get when you combine a hundred hackers with a bunch of business billionaires? Just maybe a solution for global homelessness! Manchester, UK, April 15, 2016:  At 9am on April 21, the Business…

• “Love Must Prevail,” says Assange on the eve of Lauri Love’s court appearance

  By raincoaster on April 11, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  UPDATE: Facebook has banned sharing the direct link to the article on Facebook, but thanks to the quick thinking of @AnarcKat you can share using this retro-futuristic QR code. Many thanks for a clever workaround! Lauri Love, the 31-year-old activist,… Read More ›

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