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There Are No Easy Solutions To San Francisco’s Housing Crisis
No easy solutions, but here’s one: drop the one family/one building model and facilitate other options which used to exist, like the boarding house, the decent residential hotel (Air bnb of the 19th century), dorms, and so on, all at… Read More ›
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Quiz: What Kind of CryptoCurrency Coverage Do You Like?
Well, kittens, you may have noticed some changes Chez Cryptosphere; for the last two weeks we’ve suspended our Crypto Currently coverage, a daily roundup of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Altcoin prices. We have, for this, received not one single complaint…. Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for Tuesday, September 9
It’s Tuesday, people, only Tuesday, but you’ll make it. I mean, it’s not so bad, is it, this week? Last supermoon of the summer, first snows up in Alberta, and your life could be a lot worse: you could be… Read More ›
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CIA tortured terror suspects ‘to point of death,’ U.S. Senate report will say: source
It’s not just a little horseplay, as Christopher Hitchens had the courage to find out years ago. Torture is torture, and warterboarding is torture, and it turns the people who do it into torturers who don’t distinguish between psychological pressure… Read More ›
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DNA analysis of fourth victim’s shawl reveals Jack the Ripper was a Polish hairdresser gone mad
My money was always on the Queen’s doctor, actually. I AM DISAPPOINT!
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Comcast weakens consumer security by injecting ads through its public hotspots
Starbucks tried something similar in Vancouver, but it didn’t last long. You’re already IN the store, you’ve already BOUGHT the drink. Getting hammered with third-party ads as a condition of remaining in the store to check messages was just too… Read More ›
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Unknownsec Doxes Stormfront Capo, Attacks Site in #OpWBKKK
True to its promise of last week, the hacker crew known as Unknownsec has gone after allies of the KKK, taking the White Supremacist site Stormfront offline with a massive botnet attack Friday night and doxing the heck out of its leader,… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Headlines for Monday, September 8
Happy Monday! Time to crawl back into the web and start climbing for the top as if your retirement savings depended on it, which — ha ha ha! — psych! Nobody currently living will ever be able to retire! But you knew… Read More ›
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Teen Counterfeiter Blames Crime On “Too Much Freedom” From Mom
I can just picture the kid wearing an “I’m the Reason Mommy Drinks” shirt, and the Mom wearing an “I’m the Reason Junior Counterfeits” shirt.
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Guest Post: ICANN Advisory on ClipboardSec by Griffin Boyce
Today’s post comes to us from hacker/privacy activist Griffin Boyce, and is a repost of a column on his own blog, which was inspired by spotting an egregious ClipboardSec violation, ironically in the BBC Horizon documentary on the Deep Web. I… Read More ›
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Why is Google sending insecure browsers back in time?
Well, heck, everyone loves the ’90’s, amirite?
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Unknownsec announces #OpWBKKK against the Westboro Baptist Church and the Ku Klux Klan
UnknownSec, this week’s hot new crew on the block, isn’t wasting any time. Two days ago they took down Facebook more or less by accident, testing out a botnet they claim they didn’t think would be powerful enough to effect… Read More ›
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Film Friday: Inside the Dark Web
Horizons: Inside the Dark Web is an hour-long interview-based BBC documentary explaining the composition and nature of the scarily-titled Dark Web, previously known as the Deep Web until fearmongers got ahold of it. It features many of the luminaries of… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto Headlines for Friday, August 5
Welcome to Friday, kittens! We made it! Neither hacking attempts, nor lame-o hate mail, nor the NSA, GCHQ, or Royal Canuckian Mounted Police could stop us this first week of September. Having luxuriated in probably the first Labour Day I’ve… Read More ›
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Our Fearless Freelancers
Originally posted on The Dish:
by Jonah Shepp Among the many pieces written in memory of Steven Sotloff since the news of his death broke on Monday, a few of them struck a particular chord with me, touching on the dangerous, precarious,…
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