This important post is borrowed (with permission of the author) from the FreeAnons website, and announces the semi-regular return of The Cryptosphere. Sorry we’ve been gone for more or less six solid months. Things are returning to our normal “extremely… Read More ›
In another guest post reposted from FreeAnons, the FreeAnons organization would like to encourage you to take a moment and a spare holiday card and write to an incarcerated Anon. Some hacktivists spend years in pre-trial custody, often in solitary… Read More ›
Well that’s a hell of a headline to have to write, but there it is: accused hacker, Occupy activist, and sometime Cryptosphere contributor Lauri Love’s 31st birthday was December 14, yesterday, and a man with almost 5000 Facebook friends, plus… Read More ›
This post comes to us from FreeAnons, a group which does great work all year round supporting incarcerated Anons and those under threat of incarceration. They have asked that we all take a moment to think of those Anons, and… Read More ›
Happy Cyber Monday, kittens! We’ve scoured the depths of the Internet (or at least those parts of it that will give us a kickback) for the finest in geek gift items. Let no man say we are not servicey at… Read More ›
“One of my first posts on Twitter was that I am not here for drama, and I plan to stick to that the best that I can.” That was before the drama came for him. So said Higinio Ochoa, formerly… Read More ›
Well, he had a job. He had a car. He had a home. He even had a dog. And now he has a long Con Air flight to St. Louis from San Diego ahead of him, because he also had… Read More ›
This is Part II of Prison America. See here for Part I. Radical firebrand, Anonymous friend, and activist lawyer Stanley Cohen is currently a guest of the President at USP Canaan, a prison in rural Pennsylvania, serving 18 months behind bars… Read More ›
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 ›
Anonymous suffered a doubled tragedy over this last week: on Thursday a masked and as-yet-unnamed Anon was gunned down by RCMP on a Dawson Creek sidewalk; that same day, Dennis Collins, aka Owen, died at his desk, as FreeAnons put… Read More ›
Today’s Op/Ed comes to us from Sue Crabtree of FreeAnons, who has just discovered that one of the best-loved lawyers (no that’s not a contradiction) in the Anonymous world has apparently been forgotten by those on whose behalf he has… Read More ›
Welcome back, kittens! We have been extremely involuntarily offline thanks to our laptop taking a Negroni directly to the keyboard. Sticky cocktails do not a happy laptop make: who knew? After giving it a good vodka chaser (well, rubbing alcohol,… Read More ›
Of The Hacker Wars we have spoken oft before: the documentary by Vivien Lesnik Wiseman is the definitive cinematic depiction of the golden days of hacktivism, LulzSec, AntiSec, and the rest, and also of their inevitable fall. A fall, we… Read More ›
Tonight on AnonOps Radio, it’ll be Back to the Future time, as the hosts dedicate the entire show to fallen (arrested) colleague and former host, Adam Bennett, aka Lorax. Once the most popular radio host in Anonymous, with his own… Read More ›
JEREMY HAMMOND – the original enforcer Before Snowden, before the mainstreaming of Hacktivism, and before most of us even knew what private intelligence contractors where up to, one brave activist stepped up and blew the lid off a story so big it actually… Read More ›
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