Apologies for Wednesday’s missing link roundup; it has been run to Earth and put in the stockade until it learns the benefits of promptness. The elision was occasioned by a spectacularly amateurish hacking attempt on our site and associated Gmail,… Read More ›
There is no publicly-accessible database of shootings by US police officers. Let those words sink in. While you’re at it, consider that the words “Law Enforcement Officer” and “Peace Officer” are meant to refer to the same thing. This thing…. Read More ›
Well, I suspect I don’t have to tell you there’s one and only one top story today and it begins with P.O.R.N. and ends with Jennifer Lawrence’s lawyer buying a yacht. Let’s get to our lazy post-Labour Day pr0n-infused link… Read More ›
Attention, UK Spooks, Feds, and other governmental-type security professionals! Anonymous would like to let you know: it’s ON! The UK is one of the most survielled countries in the world in significant part because of GCHQ, an organization so… Read More ›
It’s not every day there’s a Statewide General Strike called by a faceless, headless group of Anonymous hacktivists rather than a political party or labour union. But it is Friday. This Friday, August 29 (handily, the last Friday before a… Read More ›
When we were kids we had imaginary friends. Then we grew up and gave those childish things up in favour of following satirical Twitter accounts like respectable grown-ups. Let’s talk to one of them, shall we? Officer GoFuckYourself, on duty… Read More ›
Welcome to your week. Somebody was surely shot over the weekend, but as far as we know there haven’t been any riots over it, so this week is already better than last week, right? Right? Clutching at straws here, people…. Read More ›
The knock at the door. The blinding lights, the shouted orders, the helmets, the uniforms, the guns, the confusion, the melee. The raid. When it’s all over, and the FBI is sifting through everything from your Friends list to your… Read More ›
Great news: It’s FRIDAY! You don’t have to go on. You can just sip your coffee and peruse some of the most interesting news headlines in all of the cybersphere and cryptoworld. Then unplug for two straight days and pretend… Read More ›
The Anonymous Justice Operation OpFerguson came together and gelled in the time Michael Brown’s body was still lying on the ground after his shooting at the hands of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Since that time the Twitter account has been one of… Read More ›
We might as well make Ferguson its own column here, as half the daily links seem to be Fergified. Mind you, if they keep arresting the reporters, there will soon be less Ferguson news. Police Officer to Media in Ferguson:… Read More ›
They’re BACK! UGNazi was, in 2012 a seemingly-invincible hacking crew with heavy trollish leanings (as you can tell from the nomenclature and the icon) once made up of JoshTheGod, CosmoTheGod, and Mr0sama. Their attacks targeted organizations and government departments which… Read More ›
What a tangled web we weave when first we attempt to weave in an unrelated Shakespeare quote to our morning link roundup. Today we’ve got more war, more Ferguson, but I repeat myself, duelling policing theories, and more. Quote of… Read More ›
With no hacker conference this weekend, the news roundup will be sparser than it has been lately; not so many companies rushing to patch holes featured at presentations, you see. Not so many presenters announcing news bombs like “1.4 billion… Read More ›
Matt DeHart, a former American drone pilot and soldier and past participant in Anonymous actions, is in prison in Canada, awaiting extradition to the US, which seeks him on child pornography charges, charges he and his family claim are a… Read More ›
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