#opisrael for solidarity with Palestine. #opisrael for raising awareness about the Palestinian people. They are under the israeli occupation for 67 years. It’s time for Palestinians to live in peace, freedom, dignity. That was the reply, from hackers within #OpIsrael,… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 9
We’re baaaaaaack! After chasing a couple of stories far too hard we are back, with all the cyber news that IS cyber news and also buzzwords, hashtags, and jargon to boot! D’oh, I always forget to put the keywords in… Read More ›
#OpIsrael is on: this is not a repeat from any of the previous five years. Oh wait, it is.
Israelis will have another traditional plague to contend with this Passover: the annual return of OpIsrael from the more militant and frequently Muslim branches of Anonymous. Every year since 2012 has seen the return of OpIsrael in greater or lesser strength,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 31
It’s Random Attack Day, kittens! Why does China hate Github? Why does the Ukraine hate Rutgers? Why do Anons hate Anons? Bloggers jailed! Protesters kettled! Of our several-day involuntary hiatus from the interwebs we shall not speak, except to say… Read More ›
#Sabu Week: USA v. Hector “Sabu” Monsegur Sentencing Documents August 2011
Well, as we all know, Sabu got a pat on the head and a golden handshake instead of an actual sentence from Loretta Preska, who is married to one of the victims of the Stratfor hack which Sabu helmed. This… Read More ›
#Sabu Week: Stratfor, Sabu, and Selfies
Sabu Week Explained (for those of you who missed that part) Sabu! Barrett Brown! Jeremy Hammond! Stratfor! No, it’s not a repeat from 2011: it’s a pirate protest party that took place last Thursday in Austin, Texas, in the heat… Read More ›
#Sabu Week: Meet Sabu, Most Hated Man in #Anonymous
Hector Xavier Monsegur aka Sabu is unquestionably the most widely loathed person in or of the Anonymous hive, thanks to his work as a long-running informant for the FBI, work which resulted in a preponderance of his LulzSec and AntiSec crewmembers… Read More ›
#Anonymous vs #ISIS: the ongoing skirmishes of #OpISIS
In the realm of social media wars, some are more fraught than others. There are the inevitable, tiresome third-glass-of-Malbec Friday night spats, and then there are the ones where lives, and possibly immortal souls, are at stake. Anonymous is expert… Read More ›
Tweets o’ the Day: Daily #Sabu vs #Anonymous
Well, @DailySabu vs Anonymous and AntiSec and LulzSec and everything beautiful or decent in this world. Which is why it’s so wonderfully, marvelously, deliciously awful. I invented a computer on display at SXSW that runs on the tears of Jeremy… Read More ›
“Fuck #Anonymous, I’m at Spa Castle,” New Vine of Hector “Sabu” Monsegur Generates Outrage
will someone tell these amateur journalists that if you get Sabu in the tub you are supposed to throw the radio in when white rabbit peaks? — Kim Jung-Dot Com (@JahbaHimself) March 15, 2015 When the hate-click train comes in,… Read More ›
#Redhack Strikes Back at Police on the Anniversary of the Death of Berkin Elvan
You send your teenager down to the store for a few mundane essentials. He never comes home again. Shot in the head by police with a “non-lethal” tear gas canister, your son lies in a coma for 269 days, his… Read More ›
Reprints: #FuckSabu and Here’s Why
This is a reprint from my personal blog from two years ago. If you’ve been following the #OpDDD story so far, you’ll know why it’s a timely read. At the time it was written, we didn’t yet know that the… Read More ›
#Anonymous vs The @DailyDot: Blowback and Boycotts in #OpDDD
“Crossing Anonymous is like sticking your penis in a hornets’ nest.” Stephen Colbert The Final Boss of the Internet is unpleased. Looks like #Anonymous is getting ready to strike at @DailyDot — Samurai_Lucy (@Samurai_Lucy) March 9, 2015 When Hector Xavier… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 27
Happy Friday, TGIF, and all that, kittens! We are at last all caught up on our sleep from the two all-nighters we’ve pulled this week, and today’s articles should blow the doors off, so stand by. In the meanwhile, here are… Read More ›
Film Friday: We Are Legion, the Story of the Hacktivists
Let’s go back in time, kittens: back all the way to 2008, before most of the world had ever heard of Anonymous. And then, let’s look at some of the the busiest, messiest years in American history and watch as Anonymous… Read More ›