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• SF’s real income inequality issue isn’t hipsters priced out of homes — It’s the homeless

  By raincoaster on February 27, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s about time somebody pointed this out. San Francisco has always had a significant homeless population but now, with housing pressure greater than it has ever been, the situation is more desperate, for more people, than ever before.

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 27

  By raincoaster on February 27, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Happy Friday, TGIF, and all that, kittens! We are at last all caught up on our sleep from the two all-nighters we’ve pulled this week, and today’s articles should blow the doors off, so stand by. In the meanwhile, here are… Read More ›

• What You Need To Know About Asylum in the UK

  By raincoaster on February 25, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Very interesting. As the world’s population becomes more mobile, becoming a refugee becomes a choice for many millions of people who previously did not have the option. How we treat those refugees, people who by definition have chosen our country… Read More ›

• Target Says Credit Card Data Breach Cost It $162M In 2013-14

  By raincoaster on February 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Or approximately as much as their failure in Canada. Note that this number, while impressive, does not include the upcoming lawsuits from people whose data was irresponsibly risked. The hack exposed the fact that Target was both collecting and storing… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 25

  By raincoaster on February 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  We’re halfway to the weekend, kittens, and you can practically smell the sea breeze and pollen, can’t you? There are still a couple of days before you can bugger off to the beach or hole up in your dingy and… Read More ›

• The Illuminati Want YOU!

  By raincoaster on February 24, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  As a cyberwar and hacktivist news site, The Cryptosphere has long kept track on the shady international cabal of one percenters, Beyonce fans, and possible alien invaders known as The Illuminati. Occasionally, we even receive correspondence purporting to come from… Read More ›

• Hackers Spend 200+ Days Inside Systems Before Discovery

  By raincoaster on February 24, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
  It’s getting harder for organizations to spot when they’ve been breached, despite the average time taken to detect an incursion dropping to 205 days, according to the latest annual M-Trends report from FireEye. Drawing on the…

• Matt DeHart Denied Refugee Status: Looking to the Future With Tor Ekeland and Jesselyn Radack

  By raincoaster on February 24, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  American Matt DeHart, former Anon, former US soldier, former refugee claimant, is facing a new and very involuntary life back in The Land of the Free, having been denied refugee status in Canada, the country to which he fled after… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 24

  By raincoaster on February 24, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Morning, kittens! Are you all bright eyed, bushy tailed, and ready to start your day with the very best roundup of cyber and crypto and other buzzword links the internet has to offer? Splendid. Let’s begin! The Reddit-est thing in… Read More ›

• The Oscars, Academy Awards, Hollywood Heroism: From ‘Citizen-four’ and ‘Selma’ to ‘American Sniper’; Martin Luther King, Edward Snowden and Chris Kyle and America’s Addiction to Violence.

  By raincoaster on February 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Fahrenheit451Bookstore :
  ? The United States’ addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify. Within the last few months, three films appeared that offer role models, however flawed, to young people while…

• Snowden Does Reddit

  By raincoaster on February 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The Post-Oscar AMA. Welcome to the 21st Century, where nonfiction>fiction as well as stranger.

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 23

  By raincoaster on February 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Today our Featured Image is a metaphor for the indomitable human spirit, or maybe just a tribute to your liver’s ability to come back every Monday, despite what you spent all weekend doing to the poor damn thing. Now that… Read More ›

• Film Friday: We Are Legion, the Story of the Hacktivists

  By raincoaster on February 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Let’s go back in time, kittens: back all the way to 2008, before most of the world had ever heard of Anonymous. And then, let’s look at some of the the busiest, messiest years in American history and watch as Anonymous… Read More ›

• Old Article Written By Raif Badawi

  By raincoaster on February 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Raif Badawi's Blog:
  Coinciding with the painful terrorist September eleventh events, which killed more than three thousand innocent people, the Muslims in that stricken city are demanding to build an Islamic center containing a mosque and…

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 20

  By raincoaster on February 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  We made it! We crawled, dragged, rolled, staggered, or jogged to the end of the work week. Cast off the suit jackets and uncomfortable shoes, and don the floppy slippers and Thuggies that say a) this is the weekend and… Read More ›