We’ve all seen Facebook, festooned since the Paris attacks with both legitimate grief for the victims of the attacks, and with the inevitable and regrettable guilt-shaming coming from those who believe that compassion is some kind of zero-sum game. This… Read More ›
That’s not cricket! Prolific pro-Muslim hacking crew AnonCoders, who emerged only a few months ago, have been on a tear lately, targeting websites in the UK particularly (full list below the interview), including the esteemed Gentleman’s Journal (although not The… Read More ›
Today is the first day of the rest of your week. How’s it going so far? Did your boss ask why your email address is in the Ashley Madison dumps? Did your WIFE? Has Russia blocked your website today (it’s… Read More ›
#opisrael for solidarity with Palestine. #opisrael for raising awareness about the Palestinian people. They are under the israeli occupation for 67 years. It’s time for Palestinians to live in peace, freedom, dignity. That was the reply, from hackers within #OpIsrael,… Read More ›
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 ›
Happy hump day, kittens. I don’t know what it’s like chez vous, but chez moi it’s frosty enough to rime your reason, particularly before the first coffee of the day. In consequence, I will be writing up today’s news links… Read More ›
Jon Cowden is the most famous Anonymous member of which nobody has heard. #RetiredAnonymous Gave my freedom to help others obtain theirs. #ITWASWORTHIT #OpFreePalestine #OpSlayDay #OperationIranAide Not in Khaki Jumpsuits anymore He was sentenced in March of last year… Read More ›
This should end well. Team System DZ, the pro-ISIS hacker crew, have been on something of a tear in recent weeks, defacing literally hundreds of websites and posting its garbled jihadi message. We first reported on them when they took… Read More ›
Happy Monday, kittens! Was your weekend full of good food, good company, and hundreds of thousands of Facebook posts about Jian Ghomeshi? No, just me? Here are a handy bunch of links with which you can stuff your Facebook feed, blotting… Read More ›
After the most recent Hamas/IDF conflict, the people of the Gaza Strip had a heavy job to rebuild, never sure if THIS was the ceasefire that would hold as so many did not. #GazaRebirth, a new initiative by activists both inside… Read More ›
Good morning, kittens! And how is your day progressing so far? Teeth brushed, hair (if any) combed, caffeine ingested? Excellent. You’re all ready for today’s newer, shorter, list of links. Because life is too small to link to paywalls, kittens…. Read More ›
Another week gone, and a glorious, sybaritic weekend laid out in front of us like a wanton professionally-companionable person. Naturally, you wouldn’t want to head into such a liason without a full complement of news bytes from around the Cryptosphere,… Read More ›
What’s that old saying? Never bring a Derringer to a Howitzer fight? Something like that. Looks like the IDF has taken it to heart(s and minds) and is breaking out the big guns in the (temporarily ceasefired, but who knows… Read More ›
Oh what a tangled web we weave, kittens, particularly when we mistake our Bitcoin wallet ID for our public encryption key and…there, but I’ve said enough. Thank god I put it all into magic beans last week anyway. And now,… Read More ›
All’s fair in love, war, and the Cryptosphere, kittens. Today we’ve got a Bitcoin and Middle East-rich roundup that includes the evergreen “How to Own a Police Car” handbook. What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Look, there IS TOO money in… Read More ›
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