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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Numbers: Schrödinger’s Cat
“I must be cruel, only to be kind.” – William Shakespeare For this is journalism: X was true, but Y wasn’t, Here a church, there a prison. Instead, Jackie’s in a box, A topological hex, That kills as often as… Read More ›
Cop Beatings of Press Members Spark Letter of Protest to Berkeley Police from Society of Professional Journalists
The Society of Professional Journalists has released a letter sent December 6 by Lila LaHood, president of the North California chapter, to the Mayor and Chief of Police of Berkeley, California. The letter is in response to what the organization… Read More ›
The Dream Leads to Nowhere: The Farcical Use of the #Anonymous Collective’s Imagery to Instill Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt in Corporate Warfare
Cryptospherians, please welcome back Crypto-pal @GonzoPhD, who has offered up this false-flag operation as an instructional example of internet fail. It originally appeared on the Grey Coat Labs blog. Don’t poke the Internet Hate Machine or you’ll have worse problems… Read More ›
The People Want to Be Able to Live
This is a repost of Hamilton Nolan’s article of the same title on Gawker (not a lot of crossover in audiences, I’m thinking). Nolan has long cataloged the crimes of corporate and individual overlords and the economic and security losses… Read More ›
I Have Something to Hide
This is a reprint of the May, 2013 post of the same title from the Neurovagrant blog of Ian Campbell, with whom we re-connected on Twitter recently. He kindly permitted us to repost this crystal clear lesson in why encryption… Read More ›
Numbers: The Mandelbrot Set
“Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.” – Latin saying “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr An eternity of waves tattoos the sand In foam, embroiders it with seaweed, scarifies and brands The verge… Read More ›
Calling #Anonymous #OpSafeWinter: #Ferguson Police Request Handouts on #Thanksgiving
You might think, with an average salary of $28,000, almost $10,000 above the median in town, that Ferguson, Missouri police might be able to supply the bare necessities for themselves. If the individual falls a little short, you (you socialist,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Thanksgiving News
Happy Thanksgiving, Kittens! Or as we call it up in Canuckistan: Thursday. We know you’re busy arguing with relatives you haven’t seen since this time last year, so we’ll leave you to that. But first, we’ll be servicey. Here are… Read More ›
Essential #Ferguson Documents: Grand Jury Transcript, Evidence, Witness Interviews
There are hundreds of pages of information here, thoughtfully collated by the court transcriptionist and uploaded by St. Louis Public Radio. Surely there are by now tens of thousands of analysis and recapping pieces on the internet, but here is… Read More ›
From the Vault: The Real CEO Letters
From time to time we receive missives of particular interest in our unencrypted public email or our Contact Form. We’d like to share one with you now. Pour yourself a double and use the washroom before reading; this is going… Read More ›
Fear and Loathing in Onion Land: The Deep Web
This is a guest contribution from old Cryptosphere pal Gonzo PhD. It originally appeared on the Grey Coat Labs blog. I personally will continue to use Tor (with a VPN, can’t have salt without pepper) but your mileage may vary…. Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 24
Happy Monday, kittens! Have you enjoyed your weekend of responsibility-free carousing or blissful inertia, according to your preference? Did you remember to get offline? Excellent! Then you’ll need to do some catching up. Here’s where you start. Michael Brown shooter… Read More ›
Film Friday: George Orwell’s 1984 (the 1956 version) paired with the Cocaine and Cigarettes Cocktail
For those of you who’ve always wondered where those memes come from on your most radical friend’s Facebook posts, or why that old Apple commercial is Such A Big Deal: well, half of the memes are from Animal Farm and… Read More ›
How to Commit Thoughtcrime
This is another cross-post from the AntiMedia, again by Justin King (who very kindly wrote and thanked us for giving proper credit the last time we cross-posted one of his articles, the highly practical “Eight Lessons Learned from the Million… Read More ›
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