Local police say they’ve arrested a total of seven people. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? Source: Belgium Releases Two More Photos of Chief Suspect in Paris Attacks
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Brussels—where €500 buys a gun in 30 minutes—has become Europe’s jihadi capital
This quaint lowland city has become the unlikeliest hotbed of terrorism in the world. If you’re looking for why, the answer’s not hard to find. Here’s your pull quote: The mayor of Molenbeek (pop. 90,000) has called her district “a… Read More ›
Putting #ISIS on Ice: An Interview with GhostSec of #Anonymous and Ghost Security Group
As France rains bombs on Syria, as states, countries, continents close their borders to refugees fleeing civil war and terrorism, as the world reels from underreaction to overreaction in the wake of the Paris and Beirut suicide attacks, men and… Read More ›
Revealed – Paris IS Attack Photos Uncensored
Source: Revealed – Paris IS Attack Photos Uncensored A compelling gallery of 37 photos from the Paris attacks. These are gruesome documentation of the brutal attacks, and not for the faint of heart.
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 16
Welcome back to Monday, the Groundhoggiest day of the week, kittens! What did you miss over the weekend? Moar hacks, moar ops, moar blithering by political candidates. Anonymous and OpISIS swung into action with fresh purpose after the Paris attacks,… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 13
Happy Friday the 13th, kittens! In addition to being the spookiest day of the year (other than the day the bills for Christmas arrive) it’s also the 25th anniversary of the release of the classic cyberpunk movie Hackers. Although the… Read More ›
‘Extremely rational’ Anonymous hacktivist Matt DeHart avoids 70-year prison term with child porn plea deal
Adrian Humphreys has been on the Matt DeHart case from the beginning: here he covers what may be its final chapter, as DeHart accepts a 7 1/2 year sentence on child pornography rather than fighting an FBI-led espionage case in… Read More ›
DiscordiAnon on #LulzSec, #AntiSec, and #Anonymous
LulzSec, AntiSec, Anonymous: these are names to conjur with, in 2015. You should have seen them in 2011, at their height: Discordian did. He was there, at the time, the one the hackers went to for elegantly coherent video statements,… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmations: @TrutherbotGreen on war crimes
There IS, unfortunately, a fair bit of proof he’s right… Revealing war crimes is more dangerous than comitting war crimes. #Manning #Assange #Wikileaks — trutherbotgreen (@trutherbotgreen) November 10, 2015
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 12
Welcome back, kittens! First a head injury, then hardware collapse; it’s never dull chez Cryptosphere, that’s for sure. Here’s our top selection of the (literally) 938 links we collected but could not post over the past two weeks. Enjoy. Also,… Read More ›
Your Unhashable Fingerprints Secure Nothing
Fingerprint ID sounds super-cyber-state-of-the-art, but really it’s just meat. Quite primitive. Here’s a great article from Elliot Williams on Hackaday about why fingerprints, however snazzy they may sound, are already outdated as security. Your pull quote: Passwords are supposed to… Read More ›
The Internet Ungovernance Forum Opens in Brazil
We at the Cryptosphere are very proud to support the Internet Ungovernance Forum from the Pirate Party International. The conference runs from November 9-13 in Paraíba, Brazil, and features some of the most prominent names in the world of digital freedoms…. Read More ›
Christopher Dorner: The New Guy
Originally posted on raincoaster:
Dapper Fawkes Hero. Revolutionary. Soldier. Assassin. Loser. Guy Fawkes? Or Christopher Jordan Dorner? “#Dorner killed two civilians. But the State is making it about much more than that. This is a message about social control. #wakeup”…
#HoodsOff, #OpKKK Releases 500+ Names #Anonymous Identifies as KKK Members
OFFICIAL #OpKKK #HoodsOff 2015 Data Release. https://t.co/EQODjs7wpA With Love, Anonymous — Operation KKK (@Operation_KKK) November 5, 2015 Well, it’s finally here: the long-awaited list that Anonymous’s OpKKK has been collating for a year, since the first OpKKK which grew out of OpFerguson, which… Read More ›
V vs. V: Of faith and treason and #Anonymous
This article comes to us from Ted Morrison, a Victoria, BC-based writer, editor, and sometime political blogger. We invited him to discuss and/or review V for Vendetta: the book, the movie, or both. Instead of a regular review, he gave… Read More ›