Semi-regular contributor AnonyOdinn has long since moved off Twitter and onto Diaspora, but he continues to publish his blog at Cyberguerilla. That is why he is here today: somebody apparently took exception to something Cyberguerilla said (which may or may… Read More ›
This review of the BBC’s “Cybercrimes” documentary series is by the talented, entertaining, and really, really angry Matthew D. Phelan. Upon re-reading this empassioned screed, our humble scribe re-watched a few episodes, thinking, “It can’t really be as bad as… Read More ›
This post comes to us from FreeAnons, a group which does great work all year round supporting incarcerated Anons and those under threat of incarceration. They have asked that we all take a moment to think of those Anons, and… Read More ›
We are HUGE fans of Sherry Turkle around The Cryptosphere: her book The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, which discusses the ways in which personal computers serve as personal portraits, as autobiography, belongs on every bookshelf. And, yes,… Read More ›
This is Part II of Prison America. See here for Part I. Radical firebrand, Anonymous friend, and activist lawyer Stanley Cohen is currently a guest of the President at USP Canaan, a prison in rural Pennsylvania, serving 18 months behind bars… Read More ›
The Cryptosphere is in the unusual position of occasionally featuring several of its contributors not only as writers but also as, ahem, material. Here, we catch up with Cryptospherians Kitty Hundal, author and activist, and Lauri Love, currently battling a US… Read More ›
The Cluetrain Manifesto is one of the fundamental documents of the internet, whether you like it or not; that’s a contentious statement because the Cluetrain Manifesto is about selling things. It’s a marketing manifesto, not a political one, and thus… Read More ›
From time to time we receive missives of particular interest in our unencrypted public email or our Contact Form. We’d like to share one with you now. Pour yourself a double and use the washroom before reading; this is going… Read More ›
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 ›
The dominant picture of an archaeologist is that of a khaki-clad explorer, probably “intrepid,” outlined in the setting sun of an exotic local, patiently brushing the dust away from a pot partially embedded in a grid of stakes and strings, occasionally… Read More ›
Yesterday the famous Paypal 14 hacktivists were sentenced: all their felony charges were dropped, leaving them with misdemeanors and a bill for restitution. The Cryptosphere correspondent Douglas Lucas was the only journalist actually present at the sentencing. Since the conditions… Read More ›
What do you mean? It is TOO hacking-related. Wait till you learn how great art is used to launder drug money, how it’s exchanged for illegal weapons, how it’s sanitized as it travels up the chain from B&E artiste to… Read More ›
Julian Assange, founder, editor, and publisher of WikiLeaks, has a book to sell: When Google Met Wikileaks, and unlike juicy leaks, hardcovers don’t sell themselves. Consequently today he hit the interwebs and he hit them hard. First he did a Question… Read More ›
“The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” John Gilmore You’ll want this even if you never use it (and if you never use it, you’re a fool). FLOSS Manuals is a multilingual site for the dissemination and… Read More ›
Today’s loooooooong read from the dusty recesses of the distant digital past, which is to say 1993 which was 21 years ago GOD I’M OLD, comes to us from philosopher and mathematician Verner Vinge. In this seminal paper in the… Read More ›
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