This was predictable. Note that the officer who shot Mike Brown did not even know he was a suspect in a robbery. The entire encounter was just about jaywalking. Jaywalking.
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The Guy Who Kickstarted Potato Salad Wasn’t Just Trolling Us All
Some good news from the man who will forever after be known as Potato Salad Guy.
Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto Headlines
We made it to Friday, kittens! The way this week has been going I’d have lost a bet on that, for sure. But the week is ended, the weekend is hours away, and now we know that Darren Wilson killed… Read More ›
Why #Ferguson Wasn’t Trending For Some Social Media Users Last Night
The more you learn about how the tools work, the better you can use them. One important thing not mentioned here is that rts do not count towards trending status. Anonymous Tweetstorms typically caution people to copy/paste the tweet, snipping… Read More ›
Oops: Twitter suspends hacker account after it outs the wrong cop in Ferguson crisis
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Social media may be a powerful tool for citizen reporting, but it can also lead to dangerous situations when “the people” get the story wrong. That’s what happened when a Twitter account associated with the hacker collective Anonymous published the name…
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber Headlines for Today
Now this is democracy in action! Foreign Policy wants YOU YES YOU to Name! That! Op! From their Gordon Lubold’s daily email roundup: Name that op! Yesterday we noted that the current U.S. military airstrike mission over northern Iraq did… Read More ›
The WikiLeaks Army has Boots on the Ground
The day long feared by the Lords of the 1% is finally here. Julian Assange has an army. Or at least, he has the uniform. Or at least, he has the most important part, which is a snazzy pair of… Read More ›
Now even Germany’s postal service has an encrypted messaging app
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Last year’s NSA revelations sparked a great deal of interest in secure messaging apps, from Threema to Telegram to TextSecure, particularly in German-speaking countries where people and businesses are highly sensitive about surveillance. Now you can…
Murder Suspect Asks Siri Where to Dump His Dead Roommate’s Body
Thanks, Siri. Nice to know she watches as many old cop shows as I do. Too bad for him she’s such a crap accomplice (she always, ALWAYS talks).
Rise of the machines: Up to 8.5% of Twitter users are robots
5% of twitter usesr are spam? That’s pretty low. Pretty sure it’s a lot higher than that.
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines Worldwide
Yesterday, thanks to interviews and articles about OpFerguson, we had our second-busiest day and entirely forgot to do our cryptocurrency price roundup; in return, we promise to take a look at the effect of Anonymous operations on cryptocurrency prices…. Read More ›
#OpFerguson Speaks! an exclusive interview
OpFerguson is the Anonymous operation which sprang into being over the last three days, in response to the Saturday police shooting of unarmed teen Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. So far Anonymous has taken down the City website for several… Read More ›
A Brief History of Inappropriately Invoking George Orwell
Given society’s focus on controlling the People via pleasure rather than via pain, we await with pleasure the no doubt soon-to-come “brief history of inappropriately invoking Aldous Huxley.”
Anonymous Hits Back at Ferguson Police with #OpFerguson
When the Ferguson, Missouri police fatally shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown (hands in the air when shot, according to witnesses), they did what Israel hadn’t been able to do in weeks: they took the focus of Anonymous off Gaza and… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto Stories for Your Monday
A mega-roundup from a mega-weekend! Black Hat is over, long live Defcon (at least till Monday, that is), and we’ll always have the hangovers to remember them by. Here’s a particularly-juicy roundup of stories; some long reads, some short, and… Read More ›
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