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#ShutDownCanada – February 13th
Originally posted on Powell River Today:
The System has failed us all miserably. There is no democracy and we, the people, have an obligation to demand justice for all. The current status quo in Canada serves only the elite few… -
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 30
We’re back (before taking yet another holiday!) kittens! Did Santa/TheBigChiefDruid/Whoever bring you what you wanted this Festivus? Yeah, us neither. So full your mug with a bracing beverage with a heapin’ helpin’ of Bailey’s because the way to get in… Read More ›
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The Cryptosphere’s 2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 120,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at… Read More ›
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Boxing Day Movie and Popcorn: They Live
We’ve featured They Live, a little gem of dystopian 80’s cinema, before, but our old copy got blown off YouTube with a nassssty, nasssty DMCA, so here’s a fresh new copy of Rowdy Roddy Piper’s greatest starring role. Could be… Read More ›
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We’re off to celebrate the holidays and we’ll see you soon with a feature story that will do all kinds of un-Christmassy and nasty things to its subject. Assuming that’s not you, you will likely enjoy it! A long-delayed unmasking… Read More ›
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#Anonymous, #Sony, #Hackers and Other Hashtags: The Cryptosphere Editor Lorraine Murphy on the John, Paul and Mic Show
Well, this was fun. Basically, I love podcasts because I don’t have to comb my hair; hell, sometimes I don’t even have to get out of my pajamas. For the John, Paul and Mic show, however, I had to be… Read More ›
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Jeremy Hammond: I’m an #Anonymous hacker in prison, and I am not a crook. I’m an activist
https://freeanons.org/ This is a guest post stolen wholesale from the Guardian’s Comment Is Free (which does not pay contributors, so we don’t feel guilty in the least). Jeremy Hammond is currently serving ten years for his part in the Stratfor… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 23
Happy Tuesday, kittens! Still going in to work? Well, nobody’s going to expect too much of you today, so here are some conversation starters. If the internet attacks we’ve seen on US targets overnight continue, I’m afraid you’re going to… Read More ›
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#Anonymous hoax: Hackers to Iggy Azalea: Apologize for Racism or We’ll Reveal Sex Tape
So, here is our editor, quoted alongside @YourAnonNews, on the Anonymous vs Iggy Azalea hoax. Click through to the original to watch the video. MUCH more to come soon on this story. Meantime, that’s another notch for Operation Global Media… Read More ›
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North Korea experiencing widespread Internet outages in wake of Sony hack
Doubtful Telecomix will do their usual moving heaven and earth to restore internet access for North Korea. But if the country is offline and Sony is still being pwned, that’s as good an alibi as we’ve ever seen. And Sony… Read More ›
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Opposition media claims Facebook and Twitter will defy Russian censors over political content
This could be very interesting, given they have interfered in political speech in the west umpteen times.
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Comcast-TWC merger delayed, FCC says 7,000 docs wrongly held back
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Comcast’s plans to swallow its largest rival Time Warner Cable has suffered another setback as the FCC announced Monday it would once again halt its “shot clock,” which is the 180-day time period during which the agency seeks to complete… -
Dear Brother, “Leader” of LulzSec
This is a guest post stolen wholesale from Pastebin, where Ryan Ackroyd aka Kayla posted it on December 20th. It has made the rounds of social media over the weekend and is an incendiary, no-holds-barred calling-out of Hector Xavier Monsegur… Read More ›
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Intewebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 22
Happy Monday, kittens! I hope you’re stocking up on the seasonal coffee-based beverages while you can. Eggnog lattes, like crocuses, are a fleeting pleasure. So are news links, so in that wistful holiday spirit, here is all the news you… Read More ›
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“The Interview” Censorship Protestors Screen Chaplin’s Hitler Parody “The Great Dictator”
An elegant example of the old bait-and-switch. But a much, much better film than that which they had intended to see anyway.
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