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 ›
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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 ›
Edward Snowden’s Lawyer Wolfgang Kalek Speaks!
I like this guy; he stresses repeatedly that this is a long game, not a momentary blip. He specifically mentions a one, three or five year viewpoint on the Snowden case, in terms of negotiations to enable him to return… Read More ›
Happy (?) Anniversary, Julian Assange!
Well, this has to be one of the most fraught and geeky organizational Facebook page updates we’ve ever seen. For the non-hackery among us (and if you were hackery, wouldn’t you be reading everything from the sourcecode, green text… Read More ›
Stop The Power: How to Do Business Without Banks
Today we welcome a repost of a very interesting guide to going off the Big Bank Grid thanks to our friend AnonyOdinn. Could this be the solution to transaction stacking, conspiracy, and endless fees for using your own money? We… Read More ›
What to Do When Someone Steals Your Stuff
This article is just what it says on the tin. How to bring the pain when you find some mealy-mouthed thief has attempted to use your own material on his site, with OR without attribution. Fair use is fair use,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines from Around the World
It’s been a long week, full of plane crashes, buck passing, spies, spooks, hackers, Anons, and Ceiling Cat alone knows what else. Here’s our last roundup for this week, something to enjoy while you lounge poolside, or peruse idly as… Read More ›
Op/Ed: Anonifamous: The challenges of an idea in the wake of celebrity
Thanks to supporter and international journalist Curt Hopkins for the reprint rights to this meditation on the meaning of Anonymous in an age of Celebrity. We are very glad he allowed us to repost this from his website at MorphemeTales…. Read More ›
Neil McDonald: Grey Hat Black Listed
A computer hacking statute codified in 1961 (yes, before what we think of computers existed) is being wielded against Kiwi grey hat hacker Neil McDonald. His mistake was (in the short form) offering a company information about its weaknesses when… Read More ›
Cryptome Kills the Kickstarter: an interview with John Young
Send us material venal cowards dare not publish — see note below about perfidy of pols, lawyers, journalists, NGOs. You owe it to the fucked over public or shut your shop. John Young, Cryptome.org Who doesn’t want your money? Cryptome.org,… Read More ›
Report from HOPE X: Surveillance, Snowden, Stratfor and Surprises
HOPE X, which took place in New York this past weekend, is one of the premiere events of the hacker calendar. The Cryptosphere correspondent Douglas Lucas was there, presenting on a panel, schmoozing over sushi, sneaking into the press room,… Read More ›
The Cryptosphere founder Lorraine Murphy on AnonUK Radio
Here we (I) are (am) talking forest fires, Jeremy Hammond, the nature of “Anonymous” as an idea, the diversity of revolution, the tendency of government to retain and escalate control rather than to give it up, whether or not Snowden… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber headlines for July 21
It was a lively weekend, kittens, with the Hackers On Planet Earth conference at the forefront of the noisemaking, followed closely by continuing Anonymous attacks against Israel and a surprise pwnage in Kenya. And so to the headlines: Something you… Read More ›
Anonymous: Behind the mask with Kylie Ochoa
Anonymous is, yes, Anonymous. Legion. An Idea. Sure, but only until its carbon-based avatars get run to Earth and shown to the world via poorly-lit and unflattering mugshots. Lets meet one, shall we? Kylie Ochoa is the proud parent of… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Headlines from Around the Web
It’s that time, kittens. Time for our daily roundup of top headlines from around the web. Gather ’round the glowing screen while I whisper to you the nefarious goings-on all around you this very moment. You may wish to don… Read More ›
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