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• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 24

  By raincoaster on April 24, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  We made it to Friday, kittens, by the skin of our teeth and the sweat of our brow and the duke of our earl and where were we? It’s been a long week. We won’t prolong it any more than we… Read More ›

• Groupon Australia Sold Boxes Of Counterfeit Durex Condoms

  By raincoaster on April 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  *obligatory Trojan horse joke*

• A (Secure) Chat with WikiLeaks

  By raincoaster on April 23, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Today’s article comes to us from Interwebs Security correspondent Tyler L. Jones. It is his first appearance in the Cryptosphere. WikiLeaks is at it again. This time, in an effort to provide a method of secure communication between themselves and whistleblowers,… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 23

  By raincoaster on April 23, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Hacking is thirsty work, kittens, so here’s to the slow, easy downhill jog to the weekend. Today we bring you a deception-focused cyber and crypto news roundup. Your Facebook homies? All Feds. Nonfiction spy memoir? Fiction! That perfectly ordinary London… Read More ›

• #OpBeast: Exclusive Interview with the Victorious #Anonymous Team Behind #OpNullDenmark

  By raincoaster on April 22, 2015 • ( 25 )

  

  Rape is an ugly thing. Rape of the helpless, even uglier. You know what’s beautiful? Victory. It’s rare than an Anonymous operation can declare complete victory, but OpNullDenmark has earned the right. They have (with a non-trivial amount of help… Read More ›

• Chelsea Manning: media and ‘celebrities’ pivotal to legal appeal/funds and pardon

  By raincoaster on April 22, 2015 • ( 0 )

  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…

• Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for April 22

  By raincoaster on April 22, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on April 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on April 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

  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

  By raincoaster on April 21, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on April 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on April 21, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on April 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on April 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on April 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›