Aha! We knew he was working for someone! Well, kittens, now that we’ve cracked that case, let’s turn our eyes to other outrages and crimes against humanity, by which we mean everything from Assange’s Santa beard on down. Eggnog in… Read More ›
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Happy Birthday Chelsea
Happy 27th Birthday to American whistleblower and hero (or traitor; opinions vary although this one is wrong) Chelsea Manning. It’s a birthday Manning celebrates in custody, as she has every birthday of the last four; she can anticipate many more,… Read More ›
Barrett Brown of #Anonymous Sentenced Today: Watch the Full Arrest Video
And by “full” we mean with several minutes of post-arrest porn cut out of it. Yes, this is what happens when you get busted and manhandled by the Federal Bureau of Investigations: people in your chat session upload porn while… Read More ›
#Anonymous Launches #OpPirateBay
You don’t mess with the downloads, people. Where am I gonna get my Love Actually fix now? The Pirate Bay, once the most famous website in the file-sharing world, has been offline since December 10, when Swedish police conducted… Read More ›
Numbers: The Mandelbrot Set
“Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.” – Latin saying “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr An eternity of waves tattoos the sand In foam, embroiders it with seaweed, scarifies and brands The verge… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 5
Happy Friday, kittens! Are you as plugged in and illuminated as this somewhat-alarmed gent? If not, we have the cure for that: our Friday link roundup! All the cryptonews you need to get your weekend started. Someone was Indicted in… Read More ›
Infographic: Biggest CyberSecurity Attacks in History
An interesting, but arguable, infographic coming to us today from the Financial Times. Is Kevin Mitnick really bigger than the guys that hacked Target, Home Depot, Bebe, and virtually every fast food restaurant in the US? I think he’s just… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 4
Getting into holiday mode, kittens? We here at Cryptosphere Global HQ are celebrating the season by coming down with whatever bug that is that gives you a hangover when you’ve only drunk tea and causes you to sleep as though… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 2
Happy Tuesday, kittens! After some delays and detours caused by hardware failure, travel, and a teensy police incident, your Cryptosphere is back, baby! Didja miss us? Today we are coming to you from the retro-swank lobby of Hotel Zed in… Read More ›
Calling #Anonymous #OpSafeWinter: #Ferguson Police Request Handouts on #Thanksgiving
You might think, with an average salary of $28,000, almost $10,000 above the median in town, that Ferguson, Missouri police might be able to supply the bare necessities for themselves. If the individual falls a little short, you (you socialist,… Read More ›
Stocking (Mask) Stuffers: #Anonymous rolling papers
We are grateful to our friend @Miss_Cybernaut in the Serbian Pirate Party who drew our attention to this stunningly perfect gift item from Zla-Zla.com. At only twice the price of non-branded papers, it’s sure to give any revolutionary stoner the… Read More ›
How to Commit Thoughtcrime
This is another cross-post from the AntiMedia, again by Justin King (who very kindly wrote and thanked us for giving proper credit the last time we cross-posted one of his articles, the highly practical “Eight Lessons Learned from the Million… Read More ›
Best Images from #Anonymous #OpKKK
Okay, maybe Anonymous didn’t really hijack the KKK’s Twitter account, but they scored one hell of a propaganda victory by convincing most news junkies that they had. And this is just plain funny. If you’ve been hiding under a rock… Read More ›
$670 Billion Served: An Interview with Redhack Hacktivist Collective
Is it just me, or is Turkey one of the most interesting countries on the planet right now? Whether it’s indulging in geopolitical gamesmanship over US intervention in Syria, playing the Kurds off against ISIS, dealing with what is beginning… Read More ›
#takedownjulienblanc Movement Scores Several Notches in the Keyboard Wars
First they drove him from Australia. Then they made Japan too hot to hold him, forcing him to put his bookings there on indefinite hold. Then they did the same with his Canadian tour. Then hotel chain after hotel chain banned… Read More ›
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