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• Court Rules Occupy Houston Assassination Plot Records Are Exempt From The Freedom Of Information Act

  By raincoaster on February 11, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
  Details of a plot to kill Occupy Houston leaders won’t be released after a federal court upheld the FBI’s claim that the documents are legally exempted from the Freedom of Information Act. The FBI argued information…

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 11

  By raincoaster on February 11, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  What day is it, kittens? That’s right; it’s Not Enough Coffee Day! It’s also National Umbrella Day in Canada, which is as good an excuse as any to run out and buy that yellow brolly you’ve been secretly coveting for… Read More ›

• Presidential Hopeful Jeb Bush Just Doxed His Florida Supporters

  By raincoaster on February 10, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  You’re doing a heckuva job there, Bushie! Jeb “The Smart One” Bush, presidential light horse, GOP heir apparent, and Governor of the state of Florida, is truly a man of the people. If by “people” you mean “Florida Man.” Approximately… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 10

  By raincoaster on February 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Tuesday afternoon, kittens! Travel day chez Cryptosphere, so today will be light, posting-wise. We’ve already got a couple of reblogs up, and we’ll probably serve you another lulzvideo and a manifesto, but that OpISIS tome we’ve been working on… Read More ›

• Newsweek Twitter, others hacked by CyberCaliphate

  By raincoaster on February 10, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s looking more and more like the CyberCaliphate and the Syrian Electronic Army are the same people (or at least sharing a playbook).

• Ex-IMF chief Strauss-Kahn: I didn’t know there were prostitutes at sex parties

  By raincoaster on February 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  How can anyone take this man seriously? I mean, I respect a good liar but there’s a certain point of egregiousness (let us call it the Donald Trump level) where you just have to say ENOUGH.

• Report: Automakers Fail To Protect Connected Cars From Security, Privacy Hacks

  By raincoaster on February 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  And the easiest way to protect yourself is to buy a car so old it doesn’t have an onboard computer at all. If you must get one, at least don’t get one with Onstar. If you get one with Onstar,… Read More ›

• Twitter sees 40% increase in government requests in latest transparency report

  By raincoaster on February 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Well, at least they’ve stopped pretending to ignore them, and stopped claiming to resist them as a matter of principle.

• Ten Percent of All Bitcoin in Circulation Was Just Stolen

  By raincoaster on February 9, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  At least, that’s what it looks like thanks to the sudden collapse of MyCoin, a Hong Kong Bitcoin investment company. Although referred to as an exchange, in reality it marketed (in extremely garbled English and Chinese) the opportunity to invest in… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Connection News

  By raincoaster on February 9, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Happy Monday, kittens! It’s a whole new week to tackle, and we’re here to make sure that you do it absolutely chock-full of cyberwar and hacktivism news. Beverage in hand? Breakfast in belly? Very well, let’s begin. Canadians politely sue… Read More ›

• Film Friday: Carts of Darkness

  By raincoaster on February 6, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Oh, a Canadian documentary. A Canadian documentary about the underprivileged. A Canadian documentary about the underprivileged finding a source of joy that unites them and gives their lives meaning and purpose. Oh, how worthy. Fuck that. Watch this. That’s the… Read More ›

• Developer Saved Years Later by His Own Hardware

  By raincoaster on February 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  A great first-person tale of how hardware engineering saves lives every day. Thousands of people who otherwise would have died have instead been saved by these devices, now common in public facilities like schools and arenas. One very real way… Read More ›

• NSA Hacking Unit Remote Operations Center (ROC)

  By raincoaster on February 6, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Meet the ROC Team and wonder how many of our headlines here are due to their “great success in its CNE, CNA and CND operations.”

• Say “ahh” and let your smartphone check for Parkinson’s disease

  By raincoaster on February 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  We’re at the dawn of apps that can actively help you manage your health not just on a fitness-and-nutrition level, but on a diagnostic and treatment level as well. We’re going to see huge breakthroughs in the next five years,… Read More ›

• #Anonymous Takes a Bite Out of the Illegal Tiger Trade with #OpTigerStorm

  By raincoaster on February 6, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  On Thursday, February 5, OpFunKill, the anti-hunting branch of hacktivist group Anonymous, changed its stripes temporarily, becoming OpTigerStorm, and nearly swallowing the internet whole. Still trending… 5.5 hours. Sleeps. Tell me when it stops, or better still keep it trending… Read More ›