Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground is the story of a morally ambiguous protagonist who was never, not for one second, morally ambiguous in his own mind. The story of a man who stole tens of… Read More ›
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Group Makes Debt Disappear, Pays $3.9M Toward For-Profit Students’ Outstanding Private Loans
A group that used to specialize in paying off medical debt has now expanded into the student debt field, paying off the debts of delinquent yet hardworking students while actually making money. Now THAT is what we call a radical… Read More ›
Quote For The Day II
Originally posted on The Dish:
“For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led…
Word of the Day: “Deconflicting”
John Kerry swears the US is not going to cooperate with the Assad regime in Syria against ISIS. No way. Not a chance. The US is simply going to “deconflict.” Which sounds great, the same way “truthiness” does. When reporters… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News (yes I hashtagged it, sue me!) for September 17
Well kittens, it’s Hump Day and we hope you’re humping along just fine this week. If not, we hope this gif offers you solace and inspiration, much like the Julian Assange post from yesterday. Here are some news stories to… Read More ›
Snowden Leaks DID NOT Impact Terrorist Communication/Encryption Tactics – Flashpoint Report
Confirming what we’ve previously heard: Edward Snowden’s revelations have not acted as a warning to jihadis, ISIS or Al Qaeda. In fact, they’ve hardly even poked the American People into using the encryption tools that are free and available to… Read More ›
Bottom Line, People Are Fed Up. The System Has Failed. And People Are Starting To Realize It
Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
Gallup released a new poll late last week showing how many (or few, as it were) Americans are ‘satisfied’ with the direction of the country. 23%. That’s it. 76% are NOT satisfied. Only 1% aren’t sure.…
Julian Assange Speaks! In a Reddit AMA and a Gawker Q&A
Julian Assange, founder, editor, and publisher of WikiLeaks, has a book to sell: When Google Met Wikileaks, and unlike juicy leaks, hardcovers don’t sell themselves. Consequently today he hit the interwebs and he hit them hard. First he did a Question… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for August 16
Welcome to Tuesday! Today’s a big Long Reads day, so you’d best warm up your cogitation muscles by skimming over I MEAN DEEP READING our news roundup headlines. Enjoy your daily ritual of cyberwar and crypto news before the drama… Read More ›
Harper government dismisses ‘ridiculous’ allegations that it covered up the deaths of ‘rogue’ Canadian spies
Canada’s former spy chief cools his heels in a Panamanian jail cell, awaiting extradition on fraud charges, alleges spy death coverup he blames on Harper, and nobody has made this into an opera yet? COME ON PEOPLE!
You Can Now Text Groot
He’s more reliable at replying than most of my friends, too. Hopefully Groot will last longer than Wheeeeponies did on Twitter.
Fun with Wifi! Fun with Math! No, come back, this is good!
Originally posted on Almost looks like work:
A few posts back I was concerned with optimising the WiFi reception in my flat, and I chose a simple method for calculating the distribution of electromagnetic intensity. I casually mentioned that I…
Lubicon chief collected $1.5M, while community had no running water: audit
Originally posted on Warrior Publications:
Former chief of the Lubicon Cree Bernard Ominayak. Community members in Little Buffalo, Alta., demand to know where oil and gas revenue went CBC News, Sept 12, 2014 Community members in Little Buffalo, Alta. are demanding…
MPAA Swears It’s Not Pushing For More Anti-Piracy Legislation
Oh, when HAVEN’T we heard this before? With increasingly sophisticated peer-to-peer technology (eg the blockchain) comes the controlling pushback by the suits of the music industry. Never forget that studies show that people who download music buy more music.
Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto #News for August 12
Another week gone, and a glorious, sybaritic weekend laid out in front of us like a wanton professionally-companionable person. Naturally, you wouldn’t want to head into such a liason without a full complement of news bytes from around the Cryptosphere,… Read More ›
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