Well kittens, it’s been almost a full week since r/Anonymous got a surprise makeover. On Sunday, August 23 it suddenly turned from a boringly respectable space for the latest in Faceless Do-Goodery Hive news into The Furry Pad, a candy-coloured… Read More ›
Hackers
Interwebbed #Cyber and #Crypto #News for August 27
Twas the day before Friday and all through the ‘Sphere our tech minions were working to keep channels clear. There were rumours of hacks coming in from afar, and a specious hot tip from some guy at the bar. The… Read More ›
Drivers in Alberta say they faced $20 ‘toll’ after detour through First Nation
Hmmm, it looks like some of these people are not as familiar with the concept of “Private Land” as they might be in their own homes. Here’s your pull quote: “There’s got to be some type of illegal activity going… Read More ›
Montreal police officers fined for ‘unethical’ arrest of activist
It probably wasn’t terribly smart of police to arrest the ONE demonstrator who obeyed their orders to move to the sidewalk, or of the judge to gloat that a “hefty bond” would prevent him from working as an activist in… Read More ›
Jon Cowden of #Anonymous Back in Custody, Being Moved to St. Louis
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 ›
Interwebbed #Cyber and #Crypto #News for August 25
Today is the first day of the rest of your week. How’s it going so far? Did your boss ask why your email address is in the Ashley Madison dumps? Did your WIFE? Has Russia blocked your website today (it’s… Read More ›
‘Anonymous Calgary’ rally against abuse of children in child protective services
Anonymous Calgary is on a bit of a roll, and should make quite a show at this year’s Million Mask March, which isn’t that far away.
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for August 24
Happy Monday, kittens! We’ve got the latest on prison death cults from Barrett Brown, Vint Cerf, who basically invented the internet, on the future of the internet, when good people put bad things on Facebook (Facebook hides them), your policing… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmations: Salman Rushdie on #Security
This pretty much says it all, eh kittens? "There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity." –Salman Rushdie — wily (@0x1C) August 17, 2015
Interwebbed #Cyber and #Crypto #News for August 20
The Ashley Madison dump continues to leak, in a denouement exactly as savory as its mission statement. Journalists continue to be murdered. Drones continue to get hacked. Prisoners continue getting shot by police. And Cryptospherian kittens keep on reading about… Read More ›
Tortured
Originally posted on The Gad About Town:
The cane broke. Isn’t that all we need to know? The switch broke. Raymond Johansen allowed himself to be tortured yesterday in solidarity with Saudi writer Raif Badawi. He was hit 50 times…
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto #News for August 19
Happy hump day, kittens! We’ve got a heapin’ helpin’ of hacker, hacktivist, and cybery-type news for you today, so put some Martin Denny on the hi-fi, settle into your LexMod Eero Saarinen Chair, and get ready to read. Dox o’… Read More ›
Behold: the Queen of #Anonymous
Leaderfagging: you’re doing it wrong. To be honest, kittens, this is one of the rare cases where the YouTube transcript makes more sense than the actual words in the interview. Still, we cannot pass up the opportunity to share this… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto #Security #News for Aug 13
Ferguson, Oath Keepers, Windows 10, old fashioned phonecalls, spies be spying, finks be finking, hackers meet insider traders, and even more bad news: our top news roundup for Thursday is action-packed, colourful, and glitchy just like our featured image for… Read More ›
First Nations Seek Injunction To Stop Site C Dam Work, Destruction Of Eagle Nests
Originally posted on RED POWER MEDIA:
By Judith Lavoie / DeSmog Canada Two Treaty 8 First Nations have applied for an injunction to prevent BC Hydro from cutting down trees containing eagle nests in preparation for construction of the controversial Site C Dam.…