Of course, the definition of “terrorist” is fluid here. Remember, Facebook refuses to take the official ISIS page offline.
Month: March 2015
#Sabu Week: Stratfor, Sabu, and Selfies
Sabu Week Explained (for those of you who missed that part) Sabu! Barrett Brown! Jeremy Hammond! Stratfor! No, it’s not a repeat from 2011: it’s a pirate protest party that took place last Thursday in Austin, Texas, in the heat… Read More ›
#Sabu Week: Meet Sabu, Most Hated Man in #Anonymous
Hector Xavier Monsegur aka Sabu is unquestionably the most widely loathed person in or of the Anonymous hive, thanks to his work as a long-running informant for the FBI, work which resulted in a preponderance of his LulzSec and AntiSec crewmembers… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 23
Today is the first day of the rest of #SabuWeek, kittens! I’ll bet you’re excited! Yes, for the next five days we will feature one article a day on the social-climbingest, hottub-hoppingest snitch since Judas Iscariot. We promise crunchy tidbits of… Read More ›
#Anonymous vs #ISIS: the ongoing skirmishes of #OpISIS
In the realm of social media wars, some are more fraught than others. There are the inevitable, tiresome third-glass-of-Malbec Friday night spats, and then there are the ones where lives, and possibly immortal souls, are at stake. Anonymous is expert… Read More ›
Numbers: Large Number Theory
“The true mystery of the world is the visible.” – Oscar Wilde Medieval lunch box chums sprinkle salt on shams, Yielding to tramlines that run up the backs of stockings. Pronghorn antelope burst apart in a shower of springs Amid… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 20
It’s Friday, kittens, and you know what that means! Yup, time to switch gears from worrying about security at work to worrying about security at home. Have teenage kids? Good luck sleeping nights! Remember, your first line of defence is… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 18
Holy hangovers, Batman! More than a few Cyberwar Superheroes will be laying low today, methinks, having lost a battle with the dread green kryptonite of Shamrock Shake Jamesons Shooters a mere few hours ago. The taste of regret is bittersweet…and a… Read More ›
Police cars set afire at austerity protest in Germany
Germany. So hot right now.
Crisis at the State Department: an Op/Ed by Joe Fionda
This is Strike Two. Daniel Rosen, U.S. State Department Counterterrorism Director of Policy & Planning, was arrested three weeks ago for sexual solicitation of a 14 year old girl. He has again been arrested. This time, Rosen was charged in the District… Read More ›
Tweets o’ the Day: Daily #Sabu vs #Anonymous
Well, @DailySabu vs Anonymous and AntiSec and LulzSec and everything beautiful or decent in this world. Which is why it’s so wonderfully, marvelously, deliciously awful. I invented a computer on display at SXSW that runs on the tears of Jeremy… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for St Patrick’s Day
Happy St Patrick’s Day, kittens! St Paddy is the patron saint of Ireland, and also the patron saint of engineers, which is as close as the Catholic Church gets to recognizing nerds, officially. He was also the first to use… Read More ›
Putin lives! Here are the best/worst tweets on his return
Aw, damn. Our #Where’sPutin campaign was just getting off the ground.
Man, 20, accused of shooting officers at Ferguson protest
Predictably, police aim to paint him as One Of Them, them being the protesters. The protesters, however, who have been in regular contact with the media since the first night of the protests, deny that he was a regular presence… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 16
Hackers and Hectors and Humint, oh my! What a weekend it’s been, kittens! The now-infamous Sabu and Stuckey Hot Tub Party Vine has gifted the Cryptosphere with its biggest day ever, a single human hair shy of the magical 10,000 marker…. Read More ›
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