“This report tells a story of which no American is proud.” Unnamed, Presumably Now Mortified, US State Department Employee Indeed, the faceless employee was referring to the story of the CIA’s systematic use of torture to interrogate prisoners, but he… Read More ›
Today we are pleased to present a contribution from famed phone phreak Lucky, aka Jered Morgan, co-founder of SuchCalls, of which we have previously written. One of his specialties is privacy protection relating to credit card use. This is an… Read More ›
It’s Thursday already; things might calm down this week yet! And Viggo Mortensen might get over that little incident in ’02 and sweep me off my feet. Who knows? Life is as much a crapshoot as the cryptocurrency market lately,… Read More ›
As we get over hump day and stagger desperately towards the weekend which shimmers in the distance like the promise of redemption, the international news comes faster and faster, as aides-de-camp (des-camps?) shove press release after press release under the… Read More ›
From the looks of it, today is The Day of that old Aussie/Swedish/Amero-Russian mafia: new leak from WikiLeaks strikes back at the country of their founder, Snowden digs in, The Atlantic dials the mid-90’s, cyberpriest called to Swedish prison,… Read More ›
A family’s LinkedIn posts have been used against them in a case which stripped the (now formerly) Canadian family of their citizenship and gifted them with court costs of $63,000, over and above what they’ve paid to fight the case so… Read More ›
Let the nightshine in! It’s time to let Auroracoin light up our lives! Yeah, I’ve been writing ad copy today. How can you tell? Anyhoodle, in today’s mainstream and alt cryptocurrency roundup we’re featuring Auroracoin, a rebel Icelandic (but… Read More ›
All’s fair in love, war, and the Cryptosphere, kittens. Today we’ve got a Bitcoin and Middle East-rich roundup that includes the evergreen “How to Own a Police Car” handbook. What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Look, there IS TOO money in… Read More ›
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. The time would, presumably, have been sometime after Happy Hour, as you’d have to be drunk or crazy to think this would actually work. Still, we like the audacity of… Read More ›
Okay, that’s it. I’m moving all my money to Cthulhu-based cryptocurrency. Tucson, Arizona’s only Bitcoin ATM was struck by lightning last Friday. Tucson remains stuck in the dark ages ever since, unable to obtain Bitcoin except through such venerable, traditional… Read More ›
Who knew Dogecoin had an arch-rival? Well, it does. Dogecoin’s success is due in significant if not whole part to its adoption by journalist-homework-doing-machine Reddit, but now Reddit itself is getting in on the action. So it comes to this. Bitcoin:… Read More ›
What a busy, busy day we’ve had today; if the rest of the week keeps up like this, we’ll have to hire PMC‘s (Private Media Contractors) to get all our articles done! So, so much news today; so, so many… Read More ›
Here’s a really interesting video from VICE (yes, VICE, I know) on the recent rise of PMCs, private military contractors, aka mercenaries. Why now? Who hires them? Who are they ultimately working for? Why would we fight wars with PMCs… Read More ›
This article is just what it says on the tin. How to bring the pain when you find some mealy-mouthed thief has attempted to use your own material on his site, with OR without attribution. Fair use is fair use,… Read More ›
Happy Monday, y’all! Time to check the current prices for some of the web’s top, and one of the web’s outlier, cryptocurrencies. Brace your wallets, the weekend market sucked donkeys! Bitcoin: The closer we get to resolving the MtGox situation,… Read More ›
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