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Unknownsec announces #OpWBKKK against the Westboro Baptist Church and the Ku Klux Klan
UnknownSec, this week’s hot new crew on the block, isn’t wasting any time. Two days ago they took down Facebook more or less by accident, testing out a botnet they claim they didn’t think would be powerful enough to effect… Read More ›
Our Fearless Freelancers
Originally posted on The Dish:
by Jonah Shepp Among the many pieces written in memory of Steven Sotloff since the news of his death broke on Monday, a few of them struck a particular chord with me, touching on the dangerous, precarious,…
Facebook TANGODOWN: Exclusive Interview with @Unvealings of #Unknownsec
https://twitter.com/Cy63rp0isoN/status/507265728547147776 Well, as everyone in the known universe knows by now, Facebook was down yesterday for a period of time between 15 and 30 minutes, during which the world collectively lost its shit and dug out its dormant Twitter accounts… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber Headlines for August 4
Apologies for Wednesday’s missing link roundup; it has been run to Earth and put in the stockade until it learns the benefits of promptness. The elision was occasioned by a spectacularly amateurish hacking attempt on our site and associated Gmail,… Read More ›
Police force warns of unexpected frosh week costs: ‘Forcing a pet to smoke marihuana — $5000, jail, or both’
Golly, I hadn’t thought of HALF of these things. Now that the York Regional Police has come out with this handy-dandy list, I’m going to print up a hundred copies to stick under my neighbors’ doors when they get out… Read More ›
Call to Action: Help Us Track #Police Shootings
There is no publicly-accessible database of shootings by US police officers. Let those words sink in. While you’re at it, consider that the words “Law Enforcement Officer” and “Peace Officer” are meant to refer to the same thing. This thing…. Read More ›
United States Counterterrorism Chief Says Islamic State Is Not Planning an Attack on the U.S.
Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
The United States’ senior counterterrorism official said on Wednesday that there is “no credible information” that the militants of the Islamic State, who have reigned terror on Iraq and Syria, are planning to attack the U.S.…
Secure Communities has led to ‘no meaningful reductions’ in crime
A startling result in this study. Deporting immigrants with criminal convictions is a high-profile, crowd-pleasing move, but it has, apparently, no real payoff other than placating nervous taxpayers. Will they remember come voting time, though?
Huobi’s new fixed-interest bitcoin investment product should have the hairs on your neck standing at attention
This is JUST what we need. A fixed-interest financial product ie BONDS based on Bitcoin, and managed by companies with no experience in the field. Well, now we know who will be the first to be slaughtered when Goldman Sachs… Read More ›
“I am not a monster and I am not unreasonable:” Student attacks professor with axe after grant is cut
Originally posted on Retraction Watch:
A physics graduate student at the University of Coimbra in Portugal attacked a professor with an axe earlier this month after losing a grant. The student, Colin Paul Gloster, attacked physics lecturer Maria Filomena Santos,…
Who Gets Shot in America?
Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
Embry Howell, Sam Bieler, and Nathaniel Anderson of the Urban Institute have an interesting new paper (PDF) based on hospital data from six states. The number capturing headlines is their estimate that, nationwide, treating gun injuries…
Why Oil Companies Are Rogue Actors
Originally posted on The Dish:
by Bill McKibben A reader writes to complain that fossil fuel divestment is a pointless waste of time: What divestment does do is make people feel good. That they’re “doing something”, without having to do…
Where You Are Is Who You Are Even If It Is China
As someone living outside the US whose servers are hosted IN the US, I’m keenly aware of how true this is. For all the scare-mongering about China here, the US is just as worrisome. The UK is worse.
Interwebbed: Post-Labour Day Cyber and Crypto News
Well, I suspect I don’t have to tell you there’s one and only one top story today and it begins with P.O.R.N. and ends with Jennifer Lawrence’s lawyer buying a yacht. Let’s get to our lazy post-Labour Day pr0n-infused link… Read More ›
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