Aliens! Conspiracies! Surveillance! The Panopticon! Shadowy corporate overlords with murky and malevolent agendas! Honestly, what’s not to like? SCHWA is a twenty-year-old phenomenon from the mind of William Barker. First surfacing in semi-underground zines like BoingBoing, it became, for a… Read More ›
Month: July 2014
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines from Around the World
It’s been a long week, full of plane crashes, buck passing, spies, spooks, hackers, Anons, and Ceiling Cat alone knows what else. Here’s our last roundup for this week, something to enjoy while you lounge poolside, or peruse idly as… Read More ›
Op/Ed: Anonifamous: The challenges of an idea in the wake of celebrity
Thanks to supporter and international journalist Curt Hopkins for the reprint rights to this meditation on the meaning of Anonymous in an age of Celebrity. We are very glad he allowed us to repost this from his website at MorphemeTales…. Read More ›
Crypto Currently: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Potcoin prices for July 25
Yes. Yes, my friends, it has come to this. Potcoin. If there’s one thing my IRL friends know about me, it’s that I cannot abide the reek of the weed, so just imagine the depths to which I have sunk… Read More ›
Neil McDonald: Grey Hat Black Listed
A computer hacking statute codified in 1961 (yes, before what we think of computers existed) is being wielded against Kiwi grey hat hacker Neil McDonald. His mistake was (in the short form) offering a company information about its weaknesses when… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines for July 24
This week just gets crazier and crazier, people! After everyone got back from HOPE X looks like they all decided to release those reports they’d been sitting on, so we have quite a miscellany for you today; from a car hacking manual to the latest on the most-dragged-out-death-since-Boromir case of MtGox.
Enjoy?
Cryptome Kills the Kickstarter: an interview with John Young
Send us material venal cowards dare not publish — see note below about perfidy of pols, lawyers, journalists, NGOs. You owe it to the fucked over public or shut your shop. John Young, Cryptome.org Who doesn’t want your money? Cryptome.org,… Read More ›
Crypto Currently: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Catcoin
It’s the internet: there HAD to be a cat in it somewhere. Was it Nietzsche who said that when we cease to worship the old gods they die, and whatever we do worship becomes the new god? So now we have cats and Kardashians, I guess.
Sigh.
ONWARD! Here’s the daily roundup of prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and novelty selection of the day, Catcoin:
Report from HOPE X: Surveillance, Snowden, Stratfor and Surprises
HOPE X, which took place in New York this past weekend, is one of the premiere events of the hacker calendar. The Cryptosphere correspondent Douglas Lucas was there, presenting on a panel, schmoozing over sushi, sneaking into the press room,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Global Cyber and Crypto Headlines
With the situation in the Ukraine, the situation in Gaza, and the situation on Twitter, it’s a busier day than normal in the Cryptosphere, so we decided to push out our daily link roundup a bit early. Here’s all the top news from around the globe.
Crypto Currently: Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and BBQcoin
Here are the current prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and our token and topical as well as seasonal novelty cryptocurrency, BBQcoin.
Watch: Al Jazeera Investigates Informants
It’s another in our semi-regular series of videos for you to enjoy. This is Al Jazeera’s investigation into the lives of three federal informants, under cover posing as Muslims to recruit would-be jihadis into schemes cooked up by the FBI…. Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto Headlines
Here’s today’s roundup of all the top cyberwar, cryptocurrency, and hacker news. In case you’re curious, Anonymous is still going with OpSaveGaza, but that’s pretty much the default lately so we’ll give off with the links to their actions until… Read More ›
Shot of the day: James Bay (Cyber) Cafe
Cyber cafes: They actually still exist! Steffani Cameron snapped this shot of Victoria, BC favourite James Bay Coffee and Books two weeks ago. It’s odd that a cyber anything would be retro, but that’s a side effect of living on internet… Read More ›
Crypto Currently: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Dolphincoin
Yes, Dolphincoin. They say it’s “a decentralized angel investing cryptocurrency” and we say it’s today’s featured noveltycoin. Splash out at own risk.
Current prices for: