We’re pleased as POG to present our latest guest post; this one is a satirical essay very much in the tradition of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Our featured writer is Peter Van Buren, author of Ghosts of Tom Joad:… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto News for Wednesday, August 27
Today we’re featuring trolls, dark markets, drones, racists, banks, and idiots, among other fragrant denizens of The Cryptosphere. Enjoy? And make sure your shots are up to date before clicking. Black Market Cannabis Road Hacked, $100,000 in Bitcoin Lost (Coindesk)… Read More ›
The Sabu Effect: An Interview with Jay Leiderman
The knock at the door. The blinding lights, the shouted orders, the helmets, the uniforms, the guns, the confusion, the melee. The raid. When it’s all over, and the FBI is sifting through everything from your Friends list to your… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber Headlines for Tuesday
Today’s links are all about war, war, cyberwar, protests, militarization, war, Bitcoin, and war. Make that latte a double; you’re gonna need it! The Americans are coming! The Americans are coming! To wipe out your pirate sites! (Torrentfreak) The Electronic… Read More ›
Rallies for imprisoned Anon Matt DeHart Scheduled This Weekend
Matt DeHart, a former American drone pilot and soldier and past participant in Anonymous actions, is in prison in Canada, awaiting extradition to the US, which seeks him on child pornography charges, charges he and his family claim are a… Read More ›
#OpFerguson Updates: Trolls, Honeypots, Leaks, and Crowdsourcing Intel
UPDATE: aaaand just as we hit Publish, Anonymous has taken the Ferguson City website and the St Louis County website offline. Anonymous has been busy over the last day or so, working on OpFerguson, the operation designed to bring justice… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines Worldwide
Yesterday, thanks to interviews and articles about OpFerguson, we had our second-busiest day and entirely forgot to do our cryptocurrency price roundup; in return, we promise to take a look at the effect of Anonymous operations on cryptocurrency prices…. Read More ›
Mr. Big cut down to size
A classic police sting known as “Mr. Big” has been cut off at the knees by the Supreme Court of Canada, as they threw out murder confession obtained by a Mr. Big sting. The venerable technique so beloved of television… Read More ›
Stacie Te Korako of Free Matt DeHart on AnonUKEire Radio
Matt DeHart is an American, a former soldier, former drone pilot, former Anon, former World of Warcraft guild master, former would-be defector, and, according to the FBI, a former child porn producer. No child porn has ever been found on… Read More ›
Report from HOPE X: Surveillance, Snowden, Stratfor and Surprises
HOPE X, which took place in New York this past weekend, is one of the premiere events of the hacker calendar. The Cryptosphere correspondent Douglas Lucas was there, presenting on a panel, schmoozing over sushi, sneaking into the press room,… Read More ›
Watch: Al Jazeera Investigates Informants
It’s another in our semi-regular series of videos for you to enjoy. This is Al Jazeera’s investigation into the lives of three federal informants, under cover posing as Muslims to recruit would-be jihadis into schemes cooked up by the FBI…. Read More ›
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