Originally posted on UndercoverInfo:
Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning – the whistleblower who leaked details of US war crimes and, despite massive global support, was sentenced to an outrageous 35 years imprisonment – is lodging an appeal against conviction and jail…
Month: April 2015
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for April 22
It’s a busy Hump Day here at The Cryptosphere global HQ: we have screaming hot Google news, Arab Spring fallout, new ways to catch the cops red-handed, and a staggeringly greedy, retroactive power grab by Big Tractor, not to mention the… Read More ›
Republicans Continue Fight Against Net Neutrality With Three New Proposals
They lost, but that’s not going to stop them from wasting millions of dollars pouting while still trying to sell the American people out to corporations. And no, this was not a guest post by Michael Moore, I’m just feeling… Read More ›
USPS Accused Of Abusing Spy Program
Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) released a report Tuesday calling on Congress to improve oversight of a U.S. Postal Service program that has been used to collect sender and recipient information from the…
The Hacker Wars: #Anonymous United, Divided, Arrested
The Hacker Wars, a documentary by Vivien Lesnik Weisman, features Barrett Brown, Joe Fionda/Subverzo, Jeremy Hammond, and essentially everyone who was anyone in the Anonymous hacktivism scene in 2012-2013. It had a limited run in theatres earlier this year and has… Read More ›
A Deadly Crossing: Migrant Search and Rescue, an Infographic
With increasing tensions in Australia over the issue of migrants, as well as the recent sinking of a boatload of Libyan refugees, with an estimated death count of 800, the issue of water-borne refugees is one the world is finally… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 21
We have achieved Peak Nerd, kittens. Italian Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took a selfie aboard the International Space Station in full Star Trek regalia, then tweeted it. There may be coffee in that there Nebula, as she claims, but there’s pure… Read More ›
FBI, Justice Department pledge review after flawed hair analysis
This is important. These were not “flawed” hair analysis testimonies. These were lies. Perjury. By FBI agents and staffers. It’s important to come right out and say so, Global News.
Google Brings Street View To Loch Ness
It’s Google Loch View, launching on the 81st anniversary of the famous Surgeon’s (fake) Photograph of Nessie. An abject lesson in distrusting authority, the photograph was regarded as definitive and authoritative simply because it had been taken by a solid,… Read More ›
Lorraine @raincoaster Murphy on AnonUK Radio: #Anonymous Haters Gonna Hate
There was a little kerfuffle in the interwebs recently, kittens, and your humble editor was at the centre of it, thanks to an interview last month with Passcode journalist (and Cryptosphere pal) Fruzsina Eordogh for an article called The Great… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for April 20
Deadly Kung Fu Con Men! Cyber-Hype! Counterinsurgency and the Slow Parade of Fears! Welcome to the first cyber news headline roundup of the rest of your life, kittens! We won’t stand in your way, so go to it! Facelift: How… Read More ›
Penticton woman held against her will in care home for more than 2 years
Unthinkable, yet OpLiberation from Anonymous told us about dozens of similar cases in schools for troubled children. It’s just a matter of time before we learn about more examples of this in abuse of the elderly and the mentally ill.
Interwebbed: #Cyber & #Crypto #News for April 17
TGIF, kittens, by which we mean Thank the Gibson it’s Firefox, of course. Why, what did you think we meant? A dramatic week comes to a close, heralding, no doubt, a dramatic weekend. Here’s all the 411 you need* to… Read More ›
Saskatoon police creating guns and gangs unit
The encroachment of late 20th Century culture into Saskatoon. We didn’t think it would ever happen either.
#WikiLeaks Releases All the Hacked Sony Emails and Documents
Blame Korea! No, blame the FBI! No, blame disgruntled employees! No, blame Sabu! Whoever hacked Sony late last year, releasing tantalizingly gossipy emails that ultimately cost Amy Pascal her career there, they can now add “edited and distributed by WikiLeaks”… Read More ›