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• Police cars set afire at austerity protest in Germany

  By raincoaster on March 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Germany. So hot right now.

• Crisis at the State Department: an Op/Ed by Joe Fionda

  By raincoaster on March 17, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  This is Strike Two. Daniel Rosen, U.S. State Department Counterterrorism Director of Policy & Planning, was arrested three weeks ago for sexual solicitation of a 14 year old girl. He has again been arrested. This time, Rosen was charged in the District… Read More ›

• Tweets o’ the Day: Daily #Sabu vs #Anonymous

  By raincoaster on March 17, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Well, @DailySabu vs Anonymous and AntiSec and LulzSec and everything beautiful or decent in this world. Which is why it’s so wonderfully, marvelously, deliciously awful. I invented a computer on display at SXSW that runs on the tears of Jeremy… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for St Patrick’s Day

  By raincoaster on March 17, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Happy St Patrick’s Day, kittens! St Paddy is the patron saint of Ireland, and also the patron saint of engineers, which is as close as the Catholic Church gets to recognizing nerds, officially. He was also the first to use… Read More ›

• Putin lives! Here are the best/worst tweets on his return

  By raincoaster on March 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Aw, damn. Our #Where’sPutin campaign was just getting off the ground.

• Man, 20, accused of shooting officers at Ferguson protest

  By raincoaster on March 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Predictably, police aim to paint him as One Of Them, them being the protesters. The protesters, however, who have been in regular contact with the media since the first night of the protests, deny that he was a regular presence… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 16

  By raincoaster on March 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Hackers and Hectors and Humint, oh my! What a weekend it’s been, kittens! The now-infamous Sabu and Stuckey Hot Tub Party Vine has gifted the Cryptosphere with its biggest day ever, a single human hair shy of the magical 10,000 marker…. Read More ›

• “Fuck #Anonymous, I’m at Spa Castle,” New Vine of Hector “Sabu” Monsegur Generates Outrage

  By raincoaster on March 15, 2015 • ( 14 )

  

  will someone tell these amateur journalists that if you get Sabu in the tub you are supposed to throw the radio in when white rabbit peaks? — Kim Jung-Dot Com (@JahbaHimself) March 15, 2015 When the hate-click train comes in,… Read More ›

• FBI vs Lauri Love, Round Whatever Number It Is Now: FBI Loses Face on Google

  By raincoaster on March 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  So, yes, if you Google British activist Lauri Love’s name, you find the FBI press release relating to his US criminal charges. If you happen to be running Avast anti-virus software, you will also see a warning from Avast that… Read More ›

• Tories under fire over military report on Cpl. Stuart Langridge’s suicide

  By raincoaster on March 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Military suicides are a matter that should be discussed in public. There is no legitimate security reason to keep them secret.

• Fighting against the exploiters

  By raincoaster on March 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Warrior Publications:
  Maroussia McRae (left) and Bridget Perrier spoke about their experiences at a public awareness forum Thursday. Photo by Mike Deal. Take away demand for what they’re selling, survivors tell forum By Carol Sanders, Winnipeg Free…

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Friday, March 13

  By raincoaster on March 13, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  TGIF, kittens! It’s Friday the 13th again, so insert gratuitous bad luck joke here. While we’re waiting for you to chuckle at our randomly inserted topical witticism, we’ll give you the top news links to carry you through the weekend…. Read More ›

• Tweets of the Day: WikiLeaks vs WikiLeaksForum

  By raincoaster on March 12, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Presented without comment. Except this. .@Twitter says they will suspend @WikiLeaks account today unless we remove photo of this German conman/informer: https://t.co/sjwkPqBdos — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 11, 2015 vs Please help Mark Goeder-Tarant in his goal to have his image… Read More ›

• #Redhack Strikes Back at Police on the Anniversary of the Death of Berkin Elvan

  By raincoaster on March 12, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    You send your teenager down to the store for a few mundane essentials. He never comes home again. Shot in the head by police with a “non-lethal” tear gas canister, your son lies in a coma for 269 days, his… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 12

  By raincoaster on March 12, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Welcome to Thursday, or as we like to call it at Global Cryptosphere HQ, “Weekend’s Eve.” Actually that sounds like a feminine hygiene product for use by perimenopausal carnies, doesn’t it? Yeah, forget I said anything at all. Here are some… Read More ›