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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 19 GOD WHERE DID DECEMBER GO?
Happy Friday, kittens! We’re headed into the last weekend before Christmas, and you know what that means: driving ten minutes to the mall and spending two hours looking for a parking space. While your hands are on the wheel (along… Read More ›
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Convicted spy’s parents searching for son after Cuba-US relations thaw
A fascinating story whose potential resolution is only made possible by the changes of the past week in US/Cuban relations.
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Tours Of Sony’s Culver City Lot Suspended Amid Hack Attack
Now this is interesting. Looks like they’re going for the full reimbursement package from their insurance company, sort of the way if your car isn’t quite totalled you might just push it over the cliff.
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 18
Aha! We knew he was working for someone! Well, kittens, now that we’ve cracked that case, let’s turn our eyes to other outrages and crimes against humanity, by which we mean everything from Assange’s Santa beard on down. Eggnog in… Read More ›
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TGIF Cocktail: the Whistleblower
Originally posted on drinkscoaster:
Whistleblower Cocktail created by Jay Jones, photographed by Cathy Browne Cheers! We’ve a spotty track records when it comes to regular weekly features, but who can’t get behind this: A cocktail for Friday! This is the… -
Barrett Brown Sentencing Delayed Until Next Year
Well, if you want to be technical it’s set for January 22. For now. The reason Barrett Brown’s sentencing is set for January 22, 2015 instead of December 16, 2014 as it was originally, is that on December 16 the… Read More ›
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Happy Birthday Chelsea
Happy 27th Birthday to American whistleblower and hero (or traitor; opinions vary although this one is wrong) Chelsea Manning. It’s a birthday Manning celebrates in custody, as she has every birthday of the last four; she can anticipate many more,… Read More ›
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U.S. judge rules boy, 14, shouldn’t have been executed in 1944
Yet another way the System discriminates against young black males. The US, Yemen, and one other country are the only ones that support capital punishment for minors.
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Tom’s take: the collapse of the Wildrose Party
Rebel conservatism is on the decline in Canada just when it’s ascendant in the US. What went wrong with the Wildrose party?
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Movie Theater Stocks Rebound After Chains Jettison ‘The Interview’
You know, I used to have a business plan: find out what targets hackers were going to hit and short them. Then of course you buy back in at the low point and you make money at both ends of… Read More ›
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Barrett Brown of #Anonymous Sentenced Today: Watch the Full Arrest Video
And by “full” we mean with several minutes of post-arrest porn cut out of it. Yes, this is what happens when you get busted and manhandled by the Federal Bureau of Investigations: people in your chat session upload porn while… Read More ›
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#Anonymous Launches #OpPirateBay
You don’t mess with the downloads, people. Where am I gonna get my Love Actually fix now? The Pirate Bay, once the most famous website in the file-sharing world, has been offline since December 10, when Swedish police conducted… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Monday, Dec 15
Hello again, kittens! Did you miss me while I was on my gloriously luxurious, if fever-ridden, hiatus? Well, I still have the fever but I don’t have the time off anymore, so here we are. Naturally, when I came across… Read More ›
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Ho Ho Home Sick, Back Monday
Your editor is off sick with the Death Flu of Extreme Deathiness. Normal (contemptuous) service will return on Monday. Please do not adjust your internets. Curt Hopkins’ Numbers column will appear as usual at 7am Vancouver time on Friday. In… Read More ›
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The CIA’s Feedback Loop
Originally posted on The Dish:
Henry Farrell fears it will only get worse: [T]he CIA relies on relationships with a variety of people, and in particular with academics and people with semi-academic skills in a broader ecosystem of information. Many of…
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