The Anonymous Justice Operation OpFerguson came together and gelled in the time Michael Brown’s body was still lying on the ground after his shooting at the hands of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Since that time the Twitter account has been one of… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for Thursday
We might as well make Ferguson its own column here, as half the daily links seem to be Fergified. Mind you, if they keep arresting the reporters, there will soon be less Ferguson news. Police Officer to Media in Ferguson:… Read More ›
Bill of Rights is location restricted?
Originally posted on Millard Fillmore's Bathtub:
MoveOn.org posted this photo on their Facebook page: First Amendment Area? I presume (the post doesn’t say) this is a photo from Ferguson, Missouri. My first thought was, “Do they have a 2nd…
Chinese and Russian state media use Ferguson unrest to paint U.S. as land of inequality
HUH IMAGINE THAT! It’s almost as if they want to give the impression that the US is a deeply divided sectarian nation where income inequality and institutional racism have led the elite to think they can get away with turning… Read More ›
Should Twitter and YouTube remove images of James Foley’s beheading, or do we have a right to see them?
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Late Tuesday, the terrorist group known as ISIS released a video that appeared to show members of the group beheading freelance journalist James Foley, who was kidnapped almost two years ago while reporting in Iraq. As…
The Return of UGNazi: Doxing the Governor of Missouri
They’re BACK! UGNazi was, in 2012 a seemingly-invincible hacking crew with heavy trollish leanings (as you can tell from the nomenclature and the icon) once made up of JoshTheGod, CosmoTheGod, and Mr0sama. Their attacks targeted organizations and government departments which… Read More ›
Google’s Plan To Let Kids Have Accounts: Bad Idea Or Acknowledgement Of Reality?
It’s not as if kids can’t figure out how to lie about their age. It’s great training for getting into night clubs!
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hacked
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has revealed that between 2010 and 2013 it has been hacked three times successfully, with 17 attempts in total. Oddly, while the story is given prominent play on the UK Huffington Post, a search of the… Read More ›
The CIA Misapplies FOIA Exemptions to Continue its Covert Attack on Mandatory Declassification Review. And Why it Matters.
Originally posted on UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog:
…If you’re in the Security-Cleared Caste, that is. Inscribed at CIA Headquarters. On Friday September 23, 2011, the Central Intelligence Agency snuck two pages into the Federal Register –without a notice…
More than 1,100 German authors protest Amazon’s treatment of book publisher Bonnier
Originally posted on Gigaom:
While Amazon and Hachette’s contract battle drags on in the U.S., a similar fight is taking place in Germany between Amazon and book publisher Bonnier. Now 1,188 German, Austrian and Swiss authors have taken a cue…
Facebook To Point Out To Your Idiot Friends That The Onion Is Not Real News
Oh lord let it be true!
Will Julian Assange Leave the Ecuadorian Embassy Today?
He says he will actually walk out a free man “soon,” but not for the reason Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers claim, ill-health. His lawyer told RT he isn’t going anywhere. After two years snugly corralled in the Ecuadorian embassy in London,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top News Headlines in Cyber and Crypto for Today
With no hacker conference this weekend, the news roundup will be sparser than it has been lately; not so many companies rushing to patch holes featured at presentations, you see. Not so many presenters announcing news bombs like “1.4 billion… Read More ›
Group of Anonymous hacktivists in Toronto protest treatment of asylum seeker Matt DeHart
Activists, not hackers. Protesting outside an embassy is not an act of hacking.
Rallies for imprisoned Anon Matt DeHart Scheduled This Weekend
Matt DeHart, a former American drone pilot and soldier and past participant in Anonymous actions, is in prison in Canada, awaiting extradition to the US, which seeks him on child pornography charges, charges he and his family claim are a… Read More ›