TGIF, kittens! It’s Friday the 13th again, so insert gratuitous bad luck joke here. While we’re waiting for you to chuckle at our randomly inserted topical witticism, we’ll give you the top news links to carry you through the weekend…. Read More ›
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Tweets of the Day: WikiLeaks vs WikiLeaksForum
Presented without comment. Except this. .@Twitter says they will suspend @WikiLeaks account today unless we remove photo of this German conman/informer: https://t.co/sjwkPqBdos — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 11, 2015 vs Please help Mark Goeder-Tarant in his goal to have his image… Read More ›
#Redhack Strikes Back at Police on the Anniversary of the Death of Berkin Elvan
You send your teenager down to the store for a few mundane essentials. He never comes home again. Shot in the head by police with a “non-lethal” tear gas canister, your son lies in a coma for 269 days, his… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 12
Welcome to Thursday, or as we like to call it at Global Cryptosphere HQ, “Weekend’s Eve.” Actually that sounds like a feminine hygiene product for use by perimenopausal carnies, doesn’t it? Yeah, forget I said anything at all. Here are some… Read More ›
Reprints: #FuckSabu and Here’s Why
This is a reprint from my personal blog from two years ago. If you’ve been following the #OpDDD story so far, you’ll know why it’s a timely read. At the time it was written, we didn’t yet know that the… Read More ›
Ferguson’s predatory police are not the only ones
More on the backstory and sociopolitical environment which led up to the events in Ferguson and around the nation. I mean, can you even keep up any more?
Retired corrections officer shoots, kills man in New York City subway station
You’d think once they retired they’d stop, eh?
Wikimedia joins forces with others to sue NSA, DOJ over mass surveillance
More details on the pile-on at the NSA and DOJ. While they’re at it, they can stop their interns from vindictively editing their wikipedia pages in their spare time.
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 11
Oh man, I’d hang out at cafes a lot more if I could get Absinthe there. I don’t even like Absinthe, I just like the idea I could get it if I wanted to. If what I really wanted was… Read More ›
Listen: AnonUKRadio Featuring Lauri Love and Tor Ekeland
This past Sunday we were (I was) delighted to be back on my favorite internet radio station, AnonUKRadio, and chewing the fat and the lean with some of my favourite people. There’s just no way NOT to have a good… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 10
Psssst. Hey. Hey. You awake? That’s what a lot of activists would like to ask you and billions of other people today. We’re here with our mumbo-jumbo-destroying roundup of the top actual news in cyberwar, hacktivism, and related fields. Let’s… Read More ›
#Anonymous vs The @DailyDot: Blowback and Boycotts in #OpDDD
“Crossing Anonymous is like sticking your penis in a hornets’ nest.” Stephen Colbert The Final Boss of the Internet is unpleased. Looks like #Anonymous is getting ready to strike at @DailyDot — Samurai_Lucy (@Samurai_Lucy) March 9, 2015 When Hector Xavier… Read More ›
Police: Former Amazon Employee Siphoned Off $18,000 In Gift Card Balances
Ah, nothing new under the sun, but this one is a classic.
Activist arrested for showing rape documentary in Indian village (link to film incl.)
Whenever a government bans a documentary, we’re always interested in watching that documentary. This is banned in India on the basis that it may incite violence against women; it won’t, but what it might do is embarrass a government tasked… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 9
Happy Monday, kittens! Are you enjoying your lamby-or-leonine March so far? Already sick of New Formula Easter Creme Eggs? I hear ya; it’s the biggest scandal to happen to a digestible since New Coke. The horror. The horror. Where’d I… Read More ›
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