Originally posted on Morpheme Tales:
The cheerleading surrounding the transformative power of the new communications technologies, or “Web 2.0,” is masking an unacknowledged reality: The majority of men and women using them wish for free speech to extend only as…
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Native Americans are the unseen victims of a broken US justice system
The same goes in Canada, although thankfully less so. First Nations are the third most powerful political bloc in the country.
Salman Rushdie chastises authors protesting PEN’s Charlie Hebdo tribute
Either speech is free or it is not. PEN exists to support the right of writers to say things others may seek to punish them for. Surely anyone intelligent enough to work the alphabet understands that this means it exists… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for April 27
Black hat, grey hat, white hat, or Guy Fawkes mask, it’s time to gird your cranium and throw yourself headlong into the work week. We at The Cryptosphere Global HQ have been very busy on a couple of special projects… Read More ›
Protesters To Pay Legal Costs To Imperial Metals
Originally posted on RED POWER MEDIA:
Red Chris mine protesters. By Michael Mui | 24 Hours Vancouver The First Nations group that blockaded Imperial Metal’s Red Chris Mine after the company’s Mount Polley’s tailings dam breached last year has been ordered to…
Apple and other US companies haven’t done enough to keep conflict minerals out of their products
No, nor will they until there are lawsuits about it. Ethically mined minerals are available, but more expensive than those mined by slaves or prisoners.
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 24
We made it to Friday, kittens, by the skin of our teeth and the sweat of our brow and the duke of our earl and where were we? It’s been a long week. We won’t prolong it any more than we… Read More ›
Groupon Australia Sold Boxes Of Counterfeit Durex Condoms
*obligatory Trojan horse joke*
A (Secure) Chat with WikiLeaks
Today’s article comes to us from Interwebs Security correspondent Tyler L. Jones. It is his first appearance in the Cryptosphere. WikiLeaks is at it again. This time, in an effort to provide a method of secure communication between themselves and whistleblowers,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 23
Hacking is thirsty work, kittens, so here’s to the slow, easy downhill jog to the weekend. Today we bring you a deception-focused cyber and crypto news roundup. Your Facebook homies? All Feds. Nonfiction spy memoir? Fiction! That perfectly ordinary London… Read More ›
#OpBeast: Exclusive Interview with the Victorious #Anonymous Team Behind #OpNullDenmark
Rape is an ugly thing. Rape of the helpless, even uglier. You know what’s beautiful? Victory. It’s rare than an Anonymous operation can declare complete victory, but OpNullDenmark has earned the right. They have (with a non-trivial amount of help… Read More ›
Chelsea Manning: media and ‘celebrities’ pivotal to legal appeal/funds and pardon
Originally posted on UndercoverInfo:
Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning – the whistleblower who leaked details of US war crimes and, despite massive global support, was sentenced to an outrageous 35 years imprisonment – is lodging an appeal against conviction and jail…
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for April 22
It’s a busy Hump Day here at The Cryptosphere global HQ: we have screaming hot Google news, Arab Spring fallout, new ways to catch the cops red-handed, and a staggeringly greedy, retroactive power grab by Big Tractor, not to mention the… Read More ›
Republicans Continue Fight Against Net Neutrality With Three New Proposals
They lost, but that’s not going to stop them from wasting millions of dollars pouting while still trying to sell the American people out to corporations. And no, this was not a guest post by Michael Moore, I’m just feeling… Read More ›
USPS Accused Of Abusing Spy Program
Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) released a report Tuesday calling on Congress to improve oversight of a U.S. Postal Service program that has been used to collect sender and recipient information from the…