The Hacker Wars, a documentary by Vivien Lesnik Weisman, features Barrett Brown, Joe Fionda/Subverzo, Jeremy Hammond, and essentially everyone who was anyone in the Anonymous hacktivism scene in 2012-2013. It had a limited run in theatres earlier this year and has… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 21
We have achieved Peak Nerd, kittens. Italian Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took a selfie aboard the International Space Station in full Star Trek regalia, then tweeted it. There may be coffee in that there Nebula, as she claims, but there’s pure… Read More ›
FBI, Justice Department pledge review after flawed hair analysis
This is important. These were not “flawed” hair analysis testimonies. These were lies. Perjury. By FBI agents and staffers. It’s important to come right out and say so, Global News.
Google Brings Street View To Loch Ness
It’s Google Loch View, launching on the 81st anniversary of the famous Surgeon’s (fake) Photograph of Nessie. An abject lesson in distrusting authority, the photograph was regarded as definitive and authoritative simply because it had been taken by a solid,… Read More ›
Lorraine @raincoaster Murphy on AnonUK Radio: #Anonymous Haters Gonna Hate
There was a little kerfuffle in the interwebs recently, kittens, and your humble editor was at the centre of it, thanks to an interview last month with Passcode journalist (and Cryptosphere pal) Fruzsina Eordogh for an article called The Great… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for April 20
Deadly Kung Fu Con Men! Cyber-Hype! Counterinsurgency and the Slow Parade of Fears! Welcome to the first cyber news headline roundup of the rest of your life, kittens! We won’t stand in your way, so go to it! Facelift: How… Read More ›
Penticton woman held against her will in care home for more than 2 years
Unthinkable, yet OpLiberation from Anonymous told us about dozens of similar cases in schools for troubled children. It’s just a matter of time before we learn about more examples of this in abuse of the elderly and the mentally ill.
Interwebbed: #Cyber & #Crypto #News for April 17
TGIF, kittens, by which we mean Thank the Gibson it’s Firefox, of course. Why, what did you think we meant? A dramatic week comes to a close, heralding, no doubt, a dramatic weekend. Here’s all the 411 you need* to… Read More ›
Saskatoon police creating guns and gangs unit
The encroachment of late 20th Century culture into Saskatoon. We didn’t think it would ever happen either.
#WikiLeaks Releases All the Hacked Sony Emails and Documents
Blame Korea! No, blame the FBI! No, blame disgruntled employees! No, blame Sabu! Whoever hacked Sony late last year, releasing tantalizingly gossipy emails that ultimately cost Amy Pascal her career there, they can now add “edited and distributed by WikiLeaks”… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 16
Happy Thursday, kittens! Want to be an underground drug kingpin? We’ve gotcha covered. Remember the War on Terror? Yeah, how’s that going? We’ve got the latest in Crooked Deputy News, hacktivists around the world, and more! US EVERYWHERE! (Reuters) Americans… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 14
Welcome back to your cyberwar and hacktivism news home page! We’ve had a frantic couple of days of going mobile, but are now secreted in our new high-security bunker overlooking an undisclosed location and just around the corner from the… Read More ›
Everything They Don’t Tell You: When Hackers Talk To The Press (Ethics, Fiction and Fact)
Originally posted on AltSciFi – Independent science fiction and futurescience.:
One theme (or “subtext”) of AltSciFi is to highlight the ways in which science journalism is often better categorized as science fiction. The points and comments outlined below are culled…
A timeline of marijuana laws in Canada
In case the Canadian laws have you confused. Never transport pot over an international border, though. Just do what Hunter S. Thompson would have done and smoke it all before you cross.
The ABC’s of APT
Originally posted on Bromium Labs:
Here at Bromium Labs, we’re always striving to further our knowledge of the rapidly-changing attack landscape that threatens our enterprise customers. Over the past few months, our dedicated team of researchers have collectively developed a severe…