“Do your own time.” – prison saying Two things rob the world of wonder: Reducing life to magic numbers And twisting it to hide your blunders. Which is which is hard to say. One denies there’s a price to pay,… Read More ›
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#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 ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 24
Sabu Week is in full effect, kittens! Aren’t you thrilled? Don’t worry, once we’ve settled some old scores and shone some light into some dark corners of Anonymous and its alumni, we’ll be back to regular programming. In fact, we’ll… 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 ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 23
Today is the first day of the rest of #SabuWeek, kittens! I’ll bet you’re excited! Yes, for the next five days we will feature one article a day on the social-climbingest, hottub-hoppingest snitch since Judas Iscariot. We promise crunchy tidbits of… 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 ›
Numbers: Large Number Theory
“The true mystery of the world is the visible.” – Oscar Wilde Medieval lunch box chums sprinkle salt on shams, Yielding to tramlines that run up the backs of stockings. Pronghorn antelope burst apart in a shower of springs Amid… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 20
It’s Friday, kittens, and you know what that means! Yup, time to switch gears from worrying about security at work to worrying about security at home. Have teenage kids? Good luck sleeping nights! Remember, your first line of defence is… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 18
Holy hangovers, Batman! More than a few Cyberwar Superheroes will be laying low today, methinks, having lost a battle with the dread green kryptonite of Shamrock Shake Jamesons Shooters a mere few hours ago. The taste of regret is bittersweet…and a… Read More ›
Crisis at the State Department: an Op/Ed by Joe Fionda
This is Strike Two. Daniel Rosen, U.S. State Department Counterterrorism Director of Policy & Planning, was arrested three weeks ago for sexual solicitation of a 14 year old girl. He has again been arrested. This time, Rosen was charged in the District… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for St Patrick’s Day
Happy St Patrick’s Day, kittens! St Paddy is the patron saint of Ireland, and also the patron saint of engineers, which is as close as the Catholic Church gets to recognizing nerds, officially. He was also the first to use… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 16
Hackers and Hectors and Humint, oh my! What a weekend it’s been, kittens! The now-infamous Sabu and Stuckey Hot Tub Party Vine has gifted the Cryptosphere with its biggest day ever, a single human hair shy of the magical 10,000 marker…. Read More ›
FBI vs Lauri Love, Round Whatever Number It Is Now: FBI Loses Face on Google
So, yes, if you Google British activist Lauri Love’s name, you find the FBI press release relating to his US criminal charges. If you happen to be running Avast anti-virus software, you will also see a warning from Avast that… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Friday, March 13
TGIF, kittens! It’s Friday the 13th again, so insert gratuitous bad luck joke here. While we’re waiting for you to chuckle at our randomly inserted topical witticism, we’ll give you the top news links to carry you through the weekend…. Read More ›
Tweets of the Day: WikiLeaks vs WikiLeaksForum
Presented without comment. Except this. .@Twitter says they will suspend @WikiLeaks account today unless we remove photo of this German conman/informer: https://t.co/sjwkPqBdos — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 11, 2015 vs Please help Mark Goeder-Tarant in his goal to have his image… Read More ›
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