‘We cover our faces in order to be seen; we die in order to live.’ Twenty years of Zapatista revolution captured in a stunning photoessay.
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Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto Headlines for September 23 and 24
Welcome to our late afternoon double-stacked linkdump. The Cryptosphere has finally moved into the new offices, shared with an unnamed community radio station, and they are swank indeed. I could podcast to my heart’s content with this setup, if it weren’t heavy… Read More ›
Government hackers test Obamacare website
Remember, the government hackers were tested in games against civilian hackers and they went down in flames. So if they can find one vulnerability, assume there are ten they haven’t discovered, and that someone, somewhere, is exploiting it.
Bin Laden’s son-in-law sentenced to life in prison, tells judge he will pay price for trying to ‘bury him alive’
Stanley Cohen loses one, but the ruling was a foregone conclusion, really.
PayPal inches toward bitcoin acceptance by enabling payments for digital goods
Originally posted on Gigaom:
PayPal is dipping its toes slowly into the world of bitcoin. The company announced Tuesday that it will start accepting bitcoin through its payments hub, but only for digital goods like ebooks, music or video games.…
The FOIA Request that Cost Agency Employee Jeffrey Scudder His Job Finally Results in CIA Posting Trove of Studies in Intelligence Articles
Originally posted on UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog:
Jeffrey Scudder shares his story about how his career unraveled. (Theresa Poulson/The Washington Post) In response to a hard-fought FOIA lawsuit brought by former agency employee and IT specialist, Jeffrey Scudder,…
‘Maybe we missed something’: Warren Commission insider publicly concedes that JFK assasination was likely a conspiracy
D’ja think??? Better late than never, I suppose.
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber #News for September 22
Welcome back to the work week, kittens! The Cryptosphere is in recovery from the Cryptoflu, undoubtably a bioengineered virus deployed by a jealous competing website. At least, that’s what my PR tells me to say if the New York Times… Read More ›
August 2014 Cyber Attacks Statistics
Originally posted on Hackmageddon.com:
It’s time to aggregate the stats of the August Cyber Attacks Timelines (Part I and Part II). As usual, let us start from the Daily Trend of Attacks, which shows quite a heterogeneous trend with…
Palantir Technologies Data-Mining Products Pricelist (December 2013)
$141,015.42 FORTY TWO CENTS? Proof positive Palantir is not only evil, it’s cray.
Face Of The Day
Originally posted on The Dish:
A young man chants as Muslims gather for Friday prayers on the street outside the Mevlana Moschee mosque on a nation-wide action day to protest against the Islamic State (IS) on September 19, 2014 in…
Bitcoin Slips Back Under $400
Good thing I put all my dosh in magic beans!
Facebook Releases New Data About National Security Requests
Thanks, Yahoo, for starting this conversation. Words I never thought I would say, for sure. The short form here is: Facebook admits that all the information they gave you before about how limited the government’s reach was…is bullshit. “We Continue… Read More ›
Welcome Home w0rmer! Higinio Ochoa III is Released
Anons and hacktivists rejoice! Higinio Ochoa III, aka w0rmer of C4bin Cr3w, is a free man. Well, free-ish. Having served nearly 25 months of his 27 months sentence for unauthorized access of protected computers, he was released yesterday to his family. It’s… Read More ›
IPFS Is A Global, Versioned, Peer-to-Peer Filesystem
Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing de- vices with the same system of files. In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS…
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