Oh man, I’d hang out at cafes a lot more if I could get Absinthe there. I don’t even like Absinthe, I just like the idea I could get it if I wanted to. If what I really wanted was… Read More ›
Hacktivism
#Anonymous vs #DailyDot: Day 2 of #OpDDD
It’s Day Two of #OpDestroyDailyDot or #OpDDD for short. Can we call you #OpDDD? We feel like we’re getting to know you a lot better. You can call us “The.” To recap, if you missed our exhaustive article from yesterday: news… Read More ›
Listen: AnonUKRadio Featuring Lauri Love and Tor Ekeland
This past Sunday we were (I was) delighted to be back on my favorite internet radio station, AnonUKRadio, and chewing the fat and the lean with some of my favourite people. There’s just no way NOT to have a good… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 10
Psssst. Hey. Hey. You awake? That’s what a lot of activists would like to ask you and billions of other people today. We’re here with our mumbo-jumbo-destroying roundup of the top actual news in cyberwar, hacktivism, and related fields. Let’s… Read More ›
#Anonymous vs The @DailyDot: Blowback and Boycotts in #OpDDD
“Crossing Anonymous is like sticking your penis in a hornets’ nest.” Stephen Colbert The Final Boss of the Internet is unpleased. Looks like #Anonymous is getting ready to strike at @DailyDot — Samurai_Lucy (@Samurai_Lucy) March 9, 2015 When Hector Xavier… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 9
Happy Monday, kittens! Are you enjoying your lamby-or-leonine March so far? Already sick of New Formula Easter Creme Eggs? I hear ya; it’s the biggest scandal to happen to a digestible since New Coke. The horror. The horror. Where’d I… Read More ›
Numbers: The Pressgang Angels
“Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you.” – James 5:4 The lord proclaimed the woods Were his and his alone, As swords have greater reach than roods… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 6
You made it to Friday, kittens! Raise a glass of something cheerful, even if only chamomile tea: the weekend is almost here! Now let’s give you all the headline news you need to sound like the most fascinating person at… Read More ›
Matt DeHart Deported to US
Matt DeHart, the former member of Anonymous’ Project Chanology whose application for political refugee status was recently declined by Canada, has been handed over to American police at the border. He was transferred on the morning of Sunday, March 1,… Read More ›
Hacktivist Lauri Love on AnonUKRadio
Lauri Love is a 30-year-old hacktivist from Stradishall, UK who was indicted in July of 2014 on charges of conspiracy, causing damage to a protected computer, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. In that case he and his unnamed crewmates are… Read More ›
Domestic Terror: #Anonymous’ #OpDeathEaters Responds to Arrest of Daniel Rosen, State Department Counterterrorism Capo
Anonymous, that group of masked “terrorists” who have taken on everything from ISIS to tiger hunters to high school bullies to the credit card industry has a new target this week. That would be Daniel Rosen, the US State Department’s Director… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 27
Happy Friday, TGIF, and all that, kittens! We are at last all caught up on our sleep from the two all-nighters we’ve pulled this week, and today’s articles should blow the doors off, so stand by. In the meanwhile, here are… Read More ›
Matt DeHart Denied Refugee Status: Looking to the Future With Tor Ekeland and Jesselyn Radack
American Matt DeHart, former Anon, former US soldier, former refugee claimant, is facing a new and very involuntary life back in The Land of the Free, having been denied refugee status in Canada, the country to which he fled after… Read More ›
Film Friday: We Are Legion, the Story of the Hacktivists
Let’s go back in time, kittens: back all the way to 2008, before most of the world had ever heard of Anonymous. And then, let’s look at some of the the busiest, messiest years in American history and watch as Anonymous… Read More ›
#Bitcoin and Book Chat with #Anonymous Publications
The Parade with the Drums is an unlikely literary document; it’s the first children’s book published by the faceless hacktivist collective Anonymous. Why? Who? How? and Is It Any Good? All these questions and more occurred to us, so we… Read More ›