Lest we forget: This is what refugees go through in order to start a new life abroad. Imagine how bad what they’re fleeing from must be. Source: Refugee tragedy — Faced with government apathy, volunteers from around the world step… Read More ›
Month: November 2015
Cyber-Affirmation of the Day: The Grugq on FUD
The Paris attacks have been so convenient for so many people in high places. Given enough panic, they must think they can frighten people into accepting anything at all. Several men who know each other and live in a small… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber & Crypto News for Nov 18
Dude, you’re gonna need a bigger spell. Seriously, who among us thinks this is exactly the way the UN Security Council is run? Have you seen those decisions: a wonky 20-sided die had to be involved at some point. As… Read More ›
Paris Attacks Reopen Crypto Wars
Actually, for over a decade government officials have demanded secret backdoors and the keys to your encryption tools. And they will use every tool in the FUD toolbox to pry their way into your computers; to these people, the Paris… Read More ›
See the Heartbreaking Portraits of Parisians in Mourning
As well as the dead, we need to remember the living. The experience of mourning can be a powerful binding agent, as well as a powerful healing one. “I photographed people’s faces, all were extremely expressive. All silent.” Source: See… Read More ›
Belgium Releases Two More Photos of Chief Suspect in Paris Attacks
Local police say they’ve arrested a total of seven people. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? Source: Belgium Releases Two More Photos of Chief Suspect in Paris Attacks
Brussels—where €500 buys a gun in 30 minutes—has become Europe’s jihadi capital
This quaint lowland city has become the unlikeliest hotbed of terrorism in the world. If you’re looking for why, the answer’s not hard to find. Here’s your pull quote: The mayor of Molenbeek (pop. 90,000) has called her district “a… Read More ›
Putting #ISIS on Ice: An Interview with GhostSec of #Anonymous and Ghost Security Group
As France rains bombs on Syria, as states, countries, continents close their borders to refugees fleeing civil war and terrorism, as the world reels from underreaction to overreaction in the wake of the Paris and Beirut suicide attacks, men and… Read More ›
Revealed – Paris IS Attack Photos Uncensored
Source: Revealed – Paris IS Attack Photos Uncensored A compelling gallery of 37 photos from the Paris attacks. These are gruesome documentation of the brutal attacks, and not for the faint of heart.
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 16
Welcome back to Monday, the Groundhoggiest day of the week, kittens! What did you miss over the weekend? Moar hacks, moar ops, moar blithering by political candidates. Anonymous and OpISIS swung into action with fresh purpose after the Paris attacks,… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 13
Happy Friday the 13th, kittens! In addition to being the spookiest day of the year (other than the day the bills for Christmas arrive) it’s also the 25th anniversary of the release of the classic cyberpunk movie Hackers. Although the… Read More ›
‘Extremely rational’ Anonymous hacktivist Matt DeHart avoids 70-year prison term with child porn plea deal
Adrian Humphreys has been on the Matt DeHart case from the beginning: here he covers what may be its final chapter, as DeHart accepts a 7 1/2 year sentence on child pornography rather than fighting an FBI-led espionage case in… Read More ›
DiscordiAnon on #LulzSec, #AntiSec, and #Anonymous
LulzSec, AntiSec, Anonymous: these are names to conjur with, in 2015. You should have seen them in 2011, at their height: Discordian did. He was there, at the time, the one the hackers went to for elegantly coherent video statements,… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmations: @TrutherbotGreen on war crimes
There IS, unfortunately, a fair bit of proof he’s right… Revealing war crimes is more dangerous than comitting war crimes. #Manning #Assange #Wikileaks — trutherbotgreen (@trutherbotgreen) November 10, 2015
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 12
Welcome back, kittens! First a head injury, then hardware collapse; it’s never dull chez Cryptosphere, that’s for sure. Here’s our top selection of the (literally) 938 links we collected but could not post over the past two weeks. Enjoy. Also,… Read More ›
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