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• #Anonymous #Sabu Week Numbers: Nerd Agonistes

  By raincoaster on March 27, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  “Do your own time.” – prison saying Two things rob the world of wonder: Reducing life to magic numbers And twisting it to hide your blunders. Which is which is hard to say. One denies there’s a price to pay,… Read More ›

• Movements of Radical Imagination; How Ordinary People Are Building A New World

  By raincoaster on March 26, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  This article looks into the ways in which meaningful, positive cultural change is being made by revolutionary movements around the world, including the Cypherpunk movement, which advocates encryption as a tool to foster free expression and equality. It is the… Read More ›

• #Anonymous #Sabu Week Reprints: Sabu the Inciter by Nigel Parry

  By raincoaster on March 26, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  This is a reprint of an article by the talented reporter and researcher Nigel Parry: it originally appeared on his website March 11, 2012. [Image removed, thanks for the malware] One of a series of FOX News exclusives clearly based… Read More ›

• #Anonymous #Sabu Week: Our review of what it’s like to eat Sabu

  By raincoaster on March 26, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  This contribution to Sabu Week is the final chapter in the saga of Sabu the pig. If you’ll recall, he made his first appearance on Thursday the 19th at the PAPS-organised Stratfor Street Party bringing attention to imprisoned Anons Jeremy Hammond… Read More ›

• #Sabu Week: USA v. Hector “Sabu” Monsegur Sentencing Documents August 2011

  By raincoaster on March 24, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Well, as we all know, Sabu got a pat on the head and a golden handshake instead of an actual sentence from Loretta Preska, who is married to one of the victims of the Stratfor hack which Sabu helmed. This… Read More ›

• Did Thomas Pynchon Predict Parallel Universes, Mini Black Holes, and the Death of the Big Bang Theory?

  By raincoaster on March 24, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  CERN, the Large Hadron Collider, science, and literature. A fun piece.

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 24

  By raincoaster on March 24, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Sabu Week is in full effect, kittens! Aren’t you thrilled? Don’t worry, once we’ve settled some old scores and shone some light into some dark corners of Anonymous and its alumni, we’ll be back to regular programming. In fact, we’ll… Read More ›

• Alleged StubHub cyberscalper will be extradited to the US

  By raincoaster on March 23, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Just exactly how much sympathy should we have for a scalping company that gets hacked, anyway?

• Military intelligence warns of terrorists harassing Canadian Forces personnel, families online

  By raincoaster on March 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Of course, the definition of “terrorist” is fluid here. Remember, Facebook refuses to take the official ISIS page offline.

• #Sabu Week: Stratfor, Sabu, and Selfies

  By raincoaster on March 23, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Sabu Week Explained (for those of you who missed that part) Sabu! Barrett Brown! Jeremy Hammond! Stratfor! No, it’s not a repeat from 2011: it’s a pirate protest party that took place last Thursday in Austin, Texas, in the heat… Read More ›

• #Sabu Week: Meet Sabu, Most Hated Man in #Anonymous

  By raincoaster on March 23, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Hector Xavier Monsegur aka Sabu is unquestionably the most widely loathed person in or of the Anonymous hive, thanks to his work as a long-running informant for the FBI, work which resulted in a preponderance of his LulzSec and AntiSec crewmembers… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 23

  By raincoaster on March 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Today is the first day of the rest of #SabuWeek, kittens! I’ll bet you’re excited! Yes, for the next five days we will feature one article a day on the social-climbingest, hottub-hoppingest snitch since Judas Iscariot. We promise crunchy tidbits of… Read More ›

• #Anonymous vs #ISIS: the ongoing skirmishes of #OpISIS

  By raincoaster on March 20, 2015 • ( 22 )

  

  In the realm of social media wars, some are more fraught than others. There are the inevitable, tiresome third-glass-of-Malbec Friday night spats, and then there are the ones where lives, and possibly immortal souls, are at stake. Anonymous is expert… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 20

  By raincoaster on March 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s Friday, kittens, and you know what that means! Yup, time to switch gears from worrying about security at work to worrying about security at home. Have teenage kids? Good luck sleeping nights! Remember, your first line of defence is… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 18

  By raincoaster on March 18, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Holy hangovers, Batman! More than a few Cyberwar Superheroes will be laying low today, methinks, having lost a battle with the dread green kryptonite of Shamrock Shake Jamesons Shooters a mere few hours ago. The taste of regret is bittersweet…and a… Read More ›