This is the second article from Tyler L. Jones for The Cryptosphere. In it, he dissects the source code for an alleged Facebook zero day vulnerability. Social engineering. It’s one of the most powerful tools in an attacker’s toolkit. It… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 21
We have achieved Peak Nerd, kittens. Italian Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took a selfie aboard the International Space Station in full Star Trek regalia, then tweeted it. There may be coffee in that there Nebula, as she claims, but there’s pure… Read More ›
Lorraine @raincoaster Murphy on AnonUK Radio: #Anonymous Haters Gonna Hate
There was a little kerfuffle in the interwebs recently, kittens, and your humble editor was at the centre of it, thanks to an interview last month with Passcode journalist (and Cryptosphere pal) Fruzsina Eordogh for an article called The Great… Read More ›
#Sabu Week Bonus: Adrian Lamo is Bradley Manning; Sabu is not Adrian Lamo
Definitely the Facebook post of the Day, coming to us direct from Norwegian Pirate Party activist Raymond Johansen: In case that doesn’t load for you, it says: This is #SnitchDay | now here is Snitch vs “Snitch” competing to see… Read More ›
Matt DeHart is Named Beneficiary of the Courage Foundation
In reporting the case of American prisoner Matthew Paul DeHart, it’s rare to encounter good news, but today is that rare day. One day after DeHart’s extradition from Canada, the country where he had sought asylum as a political refugee,… Read More ›
Matt DeHart Deported to US
Matt DeHart, the former member of Anonymous’ Project Chanology whose application for political refugee status was recently declined by Canada, has been handed over to American police at the border. He was transferred on the morning of Sunday, March 1,… Read More ›
Is Infocommunism A Real Danger? The Circle by Dave Eggers
Does the amount of things that Google knows about you scare you? In my last review, I discussed Angwin’s Dragnet Nation. This week, I’m reviewing a fictional representation of this idea pushed to its extreme: a network so all… Read More ›
Epistemology, Podcasts, and the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your House: Welcome to Night Vale
Welcome, kittens. Welcome to Night Vale. Things may seem a little strange here, but if you get confused or frightened, don’t worry; you can always flag down one of the passing blue helicopters of the Sheriff’s Secret Police and ask… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmations: The Quotidian Quest
There’s two kindsa people in this world, the day people and the night people. and it’s the night people’s job to get the day people’s money. Ray Wylie Hubbard Featured Image People are curious by Janis Lanka on Flickr… Read More ›
The #CyberCaliphate vs US #CENTCOM
The latest skirmish in the Propaganda Wars has all the elements of farce, many of the elements of a mystery, and quite a few of the elements of FUD. Hey @BarackObama next time tell #CENTCOM that "Waterboarding" is a weak… Read More ›
#Anonymous hoax: Hackers to Iggy Azalea: Apologize for Racism or We’ll Reveal Sex Tape
So, here is our editor, quoted alongside @YourAnonNews, on the Anonymous vs Iggy Azalea hoax. Click through to the original to watch the video. MUCH more to come soon on this story. Meantime, that’s another notch for Operation Global Media… Read More ›
Dear Brother, “Leader” of LulzSec
This is a guest post stolen wholesale from Pastebin, where Ryan Ackroyd aka Kayla posted it on December 20th. It has made the rounds of social media over the weekend and is an incendiary, no-holds-barred calling-out of Hector Xavier Monsegur… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Monday, Dec 15
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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