Journalist Barrett Brown has been released from FCI Seagoville today.
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Crypto-Affirmations (or Crypto-Negations) for a Very Monday Monday
if you know what we mean. Today’s Crypto-Affirmations or rather their Debbie Downer equivalent, come to us from our old friend, Professor Gabriella Coleman of McGill University in Montreal. This one has just the right mix of adorable and soul-chilling,… Read More ›
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 ›
The Ashley Madison Hack, as explained by weev
It’s the weev show! The world’s most famous troll explains the infamous Ashley Madison cheating site hack and leak. He’s done it in the form of a monologue on YouTube because as he explained on Twitter, Vice asked him for… Read More ›
#WikiLeaks attacked by Our_Mine: Our_Mine attacked by AnonyInfo of #Anonymous
It all started the afternoon of December 20. And, like most interpersonal spats today, it began on social media. Attacking @wikileaks https://t.co/2nPfgwkRBd pic.twitter.com/P6fTwfl5Kl — ⚠ OurMine Team ⚠ (@Our_Mine) December 20, 2015 . @wikileaks is still down ! Still attacking…..!!! https://t.co/2nPfgwkRBd… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmation o’ the Day: YAN on FUD
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. It used to be an acronym: FUD. Now it’s a whole industry. The terrorists hate us for our freedom, so we better take away the freedoms so we can keep the freedoms safe https://t.co/q3m7t1wfpv — Anonymous (@YourAnonNews)… Read More ›
Thousands Defy French Ban on Public Protest – Demand Liberté and Action at #COP21
This report and the photos come to us from our old friend Joe Solomon, who is on the scene in Paris for the Climate Talk protests, and originally appeared on Common Dreams. The day began at dawn, as Avaaz and… Read More ›
We Spent 72 Hours with weev and Fled to Bosnia
As one does… Everything world’s most famous troll weev does is complicated. Even his hair is complicated (why is it two different colours?). In this episode of weev got news intrepid reporters from bizarre and extremely cool site DSSK meet him… Read More ›
Emma Kelly: The media did cover attacks on *insert country here*. You just weren’t reading it.
We’ve all seen Facebook, festooned since the Paris attacks with both legitimate grief for the victims of the attacks, and with the inevitable and regrettable guilt-shaming coming from those who believe that compassion is some kind of zero-sum game. This… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmations: @TrutherbotGreen on war crimes
There IS, unfortunately, a fair bit of proof he’s right… Revealing war crimes is more dangerous than comitting war crimes. #Manning #Assange #Wikileaks — trutherbotgreen (@trutherbotgreen) November 10, 2015
The Internet Ungovernance Forum Opens in Brazil
We at the Cryptosphere are very proud to support the Internet Ungovernance Forum from the Pirate Party International. The conference runs from November 9-13 in Paraíba, Brazil, and features some of the most prominent names in the world of digital freedoms…. Read More ›
#Anonymous Sub-#Reddit in Entertaining Death Throes: We Interviewed the Assassin
Ah, Reddit, the text-based wonderland where news is born and shame goes to die. Ah, Anonymous, the once-anarcic prankster of the internet, now turned grim avenger and righteous “moralfag.” When the two of them got together, we knew it… Read More ›
A Greater Giving Potential: Introducing Micro-Donations by AnonyOdinn
This is a reprint from the Anony Odinn blog at Cyberguerrilla, another in Odinn’s ongoing series of boundary-pushing alt-finance posts. In some previous posts to this blog (1, 2), I have alluded to the compassion and microgiving potential being developed… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Sept 2
Shh, kittens, shhhh. Not so loud. Our warren of cyborg webmonkeys is having a difficult morning; seems someone swapped in decaf for caf in the socialist communal coffee pot, and they’re mostly crying softly, and distinctly unenergetically, into their keyboards…. Read More ›
Pirate Party Activist Raymond Johansen to Be Publicly Flogged Sunday
This is a press release which we helped create. Please share and repost widely. Raymond is a contributor to the Cryptosphere as well as a Pirate party activist. EDITED TO UPDATE: Video and post-flogging interview here. Torture survivor and Global… Read More ›
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