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• Paris Attacks Reopen Crypto Wars

  By raincoaster on November 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on November 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on November 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on November 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on November 16, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on November 16, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on November 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on November 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on November 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on November 13, 2015 • ( 9 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on November 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on November 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Your Unhashable Fingerprints Secure Nothing

  By raincoaster on November 12, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Fingerprint ID sounds super-cyber-state-of-the-art, but really it’s just meat. Quite primitive. Here’s a great article from Elliot Williams on Hackaday about why fingerprints, however snazzy they may sound, are already outdated as security. Your pull quote: Passwords are supposed to… Read More ›

• The Internet Ungovernance Forum Opens in Brazil

  By raincoaster on November 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  We at the Cryptosphere are very proud to support the Internet Ungovernance Forum from the Pirate Party International. The conference runs from November 9-13 in Paraíba, Brazil, and features some of the most prominent names in the world of digital freedoms…. Read More ›

• Christopher Dorner: The New Guy

  By raincoaster on November 6, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Originally posted on raincoaster:
  Dapper Fawkes Hero. Revolutionary. Soldier. Assassin. Loser. Guy Fawkes? Or Christopher Jordan Dorner? “#Dorner killed two civilians. But the State is making it about much more than that. This is a message about social control. #wakeup”…