Dude, you’re gonna need a bigger spell. Seriously, who among us thinks this is exactly the way the UN Security Council is run? Have you seen those decisions: a wonky 20-sided die had to be involved at some point. As… Read More ›
Julian Assange
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
Trolling Level: Nobel Prize
Presented without further comment: Well, just one little comment: the actual Nobel Prize Twitter account has 165,000 Twitter followers. This upstart has only 17 at the time of posting this article. The real winners were the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet…. Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Sept 2
Shh, kittens, shhhh. Not so loud. Our warren of cyborg webmonkeys is having a difficult morning; seems someone swapped in decaf for caf in the socialist communal coffee pot, and they’re mostly crying softly, and distinctly unenergetically, into their keyboards…. Read More ›
Julian Assange’s Three Years in Ecuador in Knightsbridge
KEEP FIGHTING, he says. He has no choice. For the last three years, since June 18, 2012, Julian Assange has been detained involuntarily in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London; he entered of his own free will, but that was before… Read More ›
When Google Met Wikileaks: A New Philosophy For Our Times
In the time of the Greeks, philosophy was developed through conversation. Socrates went around Athens talking with people and making them think about their life, their values and their actions. The art of philosophy by dialogue has not been lost… Read More ›
The Cryptosphere goes to camp: Social Media Camp this Friday!
It’s that time of year, kittens: the time when we pack up the Cray, break out the cutoffs, and head to glorious Victoria, BC, to present a talk at Social Media Camp, the premiere conference of its kind in Canada,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 21
We have achieved Peak Nerd, kittens. Italian Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took a selfie aboard the International Space Station in full Star Trek regalia, then tweeted it. There may be coffee in that there Nebula, as she claims, but there’s pure… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News Special #ConeSec Edition
Happy Friday, kittens! Today’s news roundup is dedicated to the principle that using the ubiquitous orange cone simply as a traffic divider is a staggering and shameful waste of potential. The hacker principle can as easily be applied to lifeless… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 20
Welcome to Thursday, kittens! Just over a month to go till the holidays; you got my list, right? RIGHT? It’s the one that starts with “pony” and ends with “Julian Assange.” To while away the hours waiting for the happy… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 20
Happy Monday, kittens! We’re leaping headlong into October’s home stretch and we hope you have put the finishing touches on your Infosec Taylor Swift costumes for Halloween. The atomic clock is ticking, kittens! Don’t want to go as the same… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 7
And we’re back! Still slightly feverish, and three pounds lighter, but nothing to worry about, kittens. Let’s not think of it as a lost day of work; let’s think of it as that time I finally broke through the Level… Read More ›
“Hard to kill.” Julian Assange, interviewed on the CBC
This is a terrific interview of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange by the terrific interviewer Jian Ghomeshi of CBC’s Q. Naturally, the hook is that Assange’s new book, When Google Met WikiLeaks, is out and he’s drumming up some interest in the… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News for September 29
That’s a damn good question, kitten. My personal suggestion would be to try reading a nice, nutritious link roundup to get the week, if not your ass, in gear. Dennis Collins aka Owen aka Iowa of the Paypal 14 and… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto News for September 26
Friends! Kittens! Governments! Lend me your ears (and maybe a fifty while you’re at it, just until the Paypal clears the bank)! It’s time for our wrap up links for this long week, time to launch into the weekend. God… Read More ›
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