Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
There are some things that make Utah unique—like floating in the Great Salt Lake, or setting a new land speed record at Bonneville, or maybe just getting attacked in your own home by a pair of…
Month: October 2014
Pitch Different: a Rejection from Bond, James Bond
Oh dear god, this is glorious. T’is fake, but t’is glorious. I’d still give Steve Jobs a yes and Sean Connery a no, but this is glorious. via EsquireUK on Facebook. h/t Percy Perkins
Team System Dz goes on hacking spree
UPDATED TO ADD: Get the latest on Team System DZ here. And gee thanks, YouKnowWhoYouAreMajorUKNewspaper, for reading our articles and not linking to them. Well, somebody’s on a roll. Much to the chagrin of over 200 victims around the world, including… Read More ›
Apple and Facebook Now Pay For Women To Freeze Their Eggs So They Never Have to Stop Working
Help me out here. Was it 1984, or was it Brave New World? I can’t remember which of the two this is from…
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Here are a few facts about Ada Lovelace, whose day is today. No, it is not a stat/bank holiday, unfortunately, although if we lived in a just world sysadmins would have the day off at the very least. Ada Lovelace… Read More ›
Review: Hot Art: Chasing thieves and detectives through the secret world of stolen art
What do you mean? It is TOO hacking-related. Wait till you learn how great art is used to launder drug money, how it’s exchanged for illegal weapons, how it’s sanitized as it travels up the chain from B&E artiste to… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Post-Canadian Thanksgiving Cyber and Crypto News
Did you enjoy your long weekend and turkey poutine, kittens? What do you mean you didn’t have either? WHAT KIND OF GODFORSAKEN BACKWATER DO YOU INHABIT, where they don’t celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving with turkey poutine and long weekends and fights… Read More ›
Dorian Nakamoto Is Suing Newsweek
Well, this was predictable, wasn’t it? And somewhere, the actual Satoshi is still presumably negotiating with the guy who hacked his wallet.
Following In The Footsteps To Freedom
Originally posted on The Dish:
Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales retraced the steps of fleeing slaves along the Underground Railroad for her project Through Darkness to Light: Finding that there were few visual records of the secret stations along the escape route, she herself…
How The CIA Got Away With Murdering Revolutionary Che Guevara
Well, that’s sorta their job. People would be hard-pressed to list the other jobs the CIA has and successfully carries out. That includes intelligence gathering when judged by whether the government ACTS on that intelligence.
October 10, 2014 – 2 years ago …I
Originally posted on Carol Todd's Snowflakes:
Dear Amanda Two years ago tonight we lost a beautiful angel in this world. That was you. As you had the thoughts in your head that your pain was too much to bear,…
Journalism’s biggest competitors are things that don’t even look like journalism
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Ever since the web was invented, newspapers and other media entities have had to continually expand their view of who their competition is: in the good old days it was other newspapers, and then TV, and…
Exclusive Matt DeHart coverage: Paul DeHart and Tor Ekeland Interviewed
Life is not easy for 30-year-old Matt DeHart. Just a few years ago he was doing well; as a trained Intelligence Analyst in the US Air National Guard he looked forward to a stable and glamorous career at the center of… Read More ›
Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto Links for 10/10
Good afternoon, kittens! We had a lovely morning doing CPR on our apparently-deceased laptop and then heartlessly arranging for a replacement, all without spending a dime. Not as easy as it looks, particularly before the first coffee of the day…. Read More ›
Numbers: Some Thoughts on the Umbrella Revolution
The color of truth is gray.” – Andre Gide I remember Tiananmen. The end Was blood, and silence. I remember Tahrir Square, the broken bones that do not mend, And in Yangon, the monks who died at prayer. I saw… Read More ›
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