To be clear, this is different from the GiveSendGo leak, reported earlier by Mikael Thalen, who has been all over this story from the word Go. Or GiveSendGo anyway. To recap: a group of roughly 150 big rig trucks and… Read More ›
Canada
Edward Snowden Beams Into Vancouver, Talks #PanamaPapers, #BigData, #Security
Edward Snowden skyped into Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre for a talk entitled “Big Data, Security, and Human Rights” on April 5, and here it is! We’re a little behind with our Snowden Events coverage, but I blame Simon Fraser University,… Read More ›
Presenting: Your Humble Editor, at Social Media Camp May 5-7 in Victoria
Yes kittens, I’m headed back to the #YYJ for another Social Media Camp, Canada’s largest social media conference, in gorgeous downtown Victoria. I know that’s a cliche, but it’s literally true and I don’t know anyone who isn’t thrilled at… Read More ›
#LaLoche School Shooting: Suspect ‘opened fire in the building’
According to reports, there was an altercation at a nearby home on Dene Road, La Loche, after which the suspect, an as-yet-unidentified young male, walked over to the school (which houses all grades, from nursery school to Grade 12) and… Read More ›
Alert the #Internet! There’s been a #Kitteh-napping! Where’s #Anonymous when you need them?
DO YOU KNOW THIS YOUNG WOMAN??? Kittens, have we got a story for you today. Sharpen your claws, justice needs justicein’. The woman pictured was observed on October 24th browsing in a Langley (exurban Vancouver) Value Village thrift shop with… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 12
Welcome back, kittens! First a head injury, then hardware collapse; it’s never dull chez Cryptosphere, that’s for sure. Here’s our top selection of the (literally) 938 links we collected but could not post over the past two weeks. Enjoy. Also,… Read More ›
The Two Funniest, Most Important Videos from the Canadian Election
As all the world has heard by now, hunky, eloquent dynastic Liberal candidate Justin Trudeau is the new Prime Minister Elect of the People’s Republic of Canuckistan, his (arguably right-)centrist Liberal party having taken the most seats on Monday, October… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 22
Did you miss us, kittens? We went away for a whole week and then took some hardware-failure-induced time off from doing our news roundup, but we’re back and, as you can see, quite excited about it. To your stations, everyone…. Read More ›
Meet Jpeg James, Canada’s Most Mysterious Candidate!
In this groundbreaking article Vancouver eminence grise and literatus extraordinaire Sean Cranbury lays out a devastatingly effective campaign plan for the Conservatives’ most mysterious candidate in the upcoming federal election, Jpeg James Low, the almost-certainly-doomed Tory candidate for Vancouver East…. Read More ›
Interwebbed #Cyber and #Crypto #News for August 25
Today is the first day of the rest of your week. How’s it going so far? Did your boss ask why your email address is in the Ashley Madison dumps? Did your WIFE? Has Russia blocked your website today (it’s… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto #Security #News for Aug 13
Ferguson, Oath Keepers, Windows 10, old fashioned phonecalls, spies be spying, finks be finking, hackers meet insider traders, and even more bad news: our top news roundup for Thursday is action-packed, colourful, and glitchy just like our featured image for… Read More ›
Telecomix Canada Defaces Donald Trump’s Site with #DataLove Letter to Jon Stewart
It was, according to one observer, the “Classiest website hack ever.” If we didn’t know Barrett Brown had an alibi, we would have sworn this was his writing. As it happens, Brown is still writing, but under close supervision in… Read More ›
Review of Kitty Hundal’s From the Shadows: Book 1 of Persecution Games
In Canada, we like to think that our police and spy agencies are fairly well controlled and act within the law. But the recent revelations from whistleblowers, as well as Bill C-51, have shown us that some of our agencies… Read More ›
#Anonymous to Canadian Government: Let’s Talk. Also, U Pwnd Again, d00ds!
In the wake of the RCMP killing of masked Anon James McIntyre in Dawson Creek, BC, Anonymous operations against the Canadian government continue. The weekend saw the leaking of more Secret government documents and the temporary disappearance of the RCMP… Read More ›
Exclusive Interview with #Anonymous #BrothersKeeper Team Behind #Justice4JayMack
James McIntyre of Dawson Creek, British Columbia was shot to death by one or more RCMP officers at about 6:30pm last Thursday night, July 16. Police had been called to deal with a disturbance inside the Fixx Urban Grill, where… Read More ›
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