The year was 1999. The dotcom boom had begun to go bust. The Euro was born. Everyone was in love with Shakespeare in Love. The Melissa worm was launched. Bill Gates becomes the richest man in the world. And David… Read More ›
Month: July 2015
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for July 17
Blackwater! Whitewash! The Dead Web! The Return of John McAfee (to the headlines at least)! Build your own free, anonymous wifi box! All these and more are our headlines this Friday, so get that latte to go and get going!… Read More ›
Second Memorial for Paul Castaway Tonight at Shooting Scene
Justice 4 Paul Castaway has announced there will be a second protest of his shooting death at the hands of Denver police, tonight at 8pm local time. This demonstration will take place at the shooting site, the Capitol City Mobile… Read More ›
Piracy vs Plagiarism, What is the difference?
There’s a big difference between being an illegal blog scraper and sharing knowledge. Permission and honesty, for a start. Here, victim of plagiarism Kitty Hundal, along with Pirate Party activist Raymond Johansen, lays it down for you.
Alleged Hacker Lauri Love Arrested in UK: US Demands Extradition
Cryptosphere contributor, Occupy stalwart, and dedicated Adrian Lamo heckler Lauri Love has been arrested in the UK, and after two years of sparring, a request for extradition has been filed by the US. He faces no charges in the United Kingdom:… Read More ›
“What’s Wrong With You Guys?” #Anonymous Takes Down Denver Police Union Website for #PaulCastaway
“What’s wrong with you guys?” Those were the last words of Lakota man Paul Castaway, uttered last Sunday night as he died from four gunshot wounds to the torso, the bullets fired by a Denver police officer. Police were on… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto #News for July 15
What day is it, kittens? That’s right: today! All day! How exciting is that? And today is the first day of the rest of my computer’s new life, courtesy of four or five ice packs which are keeping it from… Read More ›
AnonCoders Claim to Have Hacked More Than 23,000 Twitter Accounts
So there we were, minding other peoples’ business on Facebook while everyone else in North America was at a 4th of July barbeque or still nursing a Canada Day hangover, when we got a ping from an account claiming to… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for July 14
Happy Tuesday, kittens! As long as this computer works, we will be here for you with link roundups and breaking hacktivism and cyberwar news. This computer, however, has been intermittently striking (in solidarity with the people of Greece? we’re not… Read More ›
Numbers: Autocorrect
The Internet will never be your friend, It isn’t now and won’t be at the end. It’s not a tool of which you are the master, It’s just a way to sell a little faster. No magic kingdom, this plutocracy,… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto #News for July 10
TG to the IF, kittens! And to top it off, it’s my birthday! And in four short days, The Cryptosphere’s birthday, too! What did you get us? Oh? Oh. Oh, it’s okay. No, no, it’s fine. You do know we… Read More ›
Remember Stanley Cohen: Sue Crabtree of FreeAnons on the Imprisoned and Overlooked #Anonymous Lawyer
Today’s Op/Ed comes to us from Sue Crabtree of FreeAnons, who has just discovered that one of the best-loved lawyers (no that’s not a contradiction) in the Anonymous world has apparently been forgotten by those on whose behalf he has… Read More ›
Interwebbed #Cyber and #Crypto #News for July 9
Welcome back, kittens! We have been extremely involuntarily offline thanks to our laptop taking a Negroni directly to the keyboard. Sticky cocktails do not a happy laptop make: who knew? After giving it a good vodka chaser (well, rubbing alcohol,… Read More ›
Victoria Taylor Returns to #Reddit, Bids Redditors Farewell
Will the Reddit news never cease? As the petition to ask CEO Ellen Pao to step down passes 200,000 signatures, the woman whose dismissal started the ruckus known as #TheDarkening or #RedditRevolt has returned to Reddit, if only to say… Read More ›
Numbers: OBERGEFELL ET AL. vs. HODGES, DIRECTOR, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ET AL.
The people whom we always clamber on, Who feel our grasping hands and get our calls, Whose smiles we pay for long before they’re gone And in whose light or dark we rise or fall, Are fools and preening idiots… Read More ›
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