Wow. A tyrant who supervised a racial massacre is using Britain as a precedent to say that Human Rights Law does not apply in sovereign nations. An ugly result to an ugly precedent. And potentially a very, very powerful one… Read More ›
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Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters are holding a vote of their own
This is as Occupy as it gets. Taking a vote on it before acting. AND ONLY THE PROTESTORS PRESENT GET TO VOTE. It’s fair, to my mind. You participate, you get to influence outcomes. You stay home voluntarily instead of… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 24th
We made it to Friday, kittens! At times it was a tough haul, but we made it. Time for a stimulating beverage and a look at today’s cyber and crypto news links. Met pays £425,000 to mother of undercover policeman’s child… Read More ›
Care about journalism? Don’t read GigaOM until it drops the NSA as an advertising partner
Seriously Om, what were you thinking? When PANDO DAILY has to take you to task for pandering to sponsors you’ve fallen a long way, fast. By the way, The Cryptosphere does not do “sponsored content” nor can we anticipate a… Read More ›
Job Posting o’ the Day: Be the Bad Guy!
This comes to us via an interested party, which is to say if he were to apply for this he’d be able to put his real world experience at it on his resume. In fact, he’d have a lock on… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 23
Good morning, kittens! There’s much news to cover, so we won’t keep you with a florid and lengthy introduction. We’re still exhausted and a little verklempt after interviewing Ken Goffman yesterday. To the links! Our Man in Riyadh (Jacobin) Kenny… Read More ›
Hong Kong’s Occupy Central now has its own video game
Now THIS might turn me into a gamer!
CIA LSD experiment in 1951 drove whole French village mad
Zut alors! If they’re still doing this in various locations it would certainly explain the enduring popularity of Ibiza and Goa. Also: I was born in France and my mother, a military wife, was dosed with all kinds of unidentified… Read More ›
Mondo 2014: An Interview with Ken “RU Sirius” Goffman
I know, I know, you don’t have to tell me every journalist from Wired to ArsTechnica has used that headline construction. But it works, because when your accomplishments personified, furthered, documented, and disseminated the defining cultural movement of an age, you just… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 22
Happy hump day, kittens! We made it safe and sound to a new base of operations in deepest, darkest Kitsilano and are reporting live from our bunker overlooking … well, pretty much all of Vancouver. So if the Gore-Tex vs… Read More ›
Safety For Sarah: Local 600 Launches Own App For Reporting Unsafe Sets
Now this is quite interesting. Some of you may know that Hamilton Nolan at Gawker has been writing a long-running series about safety violations in reality television. Now the union is pushing back; of course, most reality shows are ununionized,… Read More ›
Driver Dead after Two CF Troops Hit by Car in Quebec
Originally posted on MILNEWS.ca Blog:
This from The Canadian Press: “Quebec police say a motorist is dead from gunshot wounds and that he struck two members of the Canadian Forces with his car in an incident an MP cited…
1-15 October 2014 Cyber Attacks Timeline
Originally posted on Hackmageddon.com:
Here we go with the first timeline of the main Cyber Attacks happened in October (according to my personal evaluation metric). Two weeks very active from an information security perspective. The list of attacks is…
The Story Of Citizenfour
Originally posted on The Dish:
http://youtu.be/XiGwAvd5mvM Fred Kaplan reviews Laura Poitras’ new Snowden documentary: At one very interesting point in the film, Snowden tells Poitras and Greenwald, “Some of these documents are legitimately classified,” and their release “could do great harm”…
SENTRY EAGLE: NSA’s “Core Secrets” Re: Covert Activities Inside Companies; Access Sensitive Data, Compromise Networks, Subvert Encryption
Meet Sentry Eagle, the NSA program to spy inside your encryption.
The Cryptosphere 