Well now, that’s not exactly fair. I think I’m the same age as him. But thrill as you watch intrepid Canadian reporter and host Rick Mercer, along with his faithful sidekick Doctor Popsicle, facing down the denizens of the deep and shrugging… Read More ›
Today’s review of Michael Mann’s “Blackhat” is by well-known activist and actor/producer Joe Fionda. Welcome to the Cryptosphere, Joe; I knew I’d break you eventually! “Blackhat” is an international hacker caper directed by Michael Mann, centering around a federally convicted hacker… Read More ›
Welcome to Thursday; it’s going to be this way all day. All. Damn. Day. It’s okay; we’ll get through it together. Just you, me, and this bottomless vat of caffeine and smart drugs. Hey, why did people who used smart… Read More ›
Good morning, kittens! The Cryptosphere is properly caffeinated, freshly showered, fed, watered, walked, and coming to you live from the complete opposite of a basement, so all is clearly right with the world. Rats Can Be Smarter Than People… Read More ›
This powerful article is re-posted with permission from Hamilton Nolan. It originally appeared on Gawker. This is HamNo’s second article on the Cryptosphere. Terrorism persists because terrorism works. Terrorism works because we let it. It takes a great deal of… Read More ›
PRAISE BE TO JUAN VALDEZ, there’s coffee in Cryptosphere Global HQ again! We hope you’ll forgive us, kittens, for our late links on this fine morn afternoon, but we really couldn’t get going until a passing drone took pity on… 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 ›
Good Monday, kittens! Hope you are able to see it through with real, caffeinated coffee, unlike your humble editor here. If the links get progressively less interesting, blame it on the decaf. ‘I AM NOT CHARLIE’: Leaked Newsroom E-mails Reveal… Read More ›
TG to the IF, kittens! We made it through the first full week of 2015 and so far, so … so … so much like last year, actually. It gets better, right? It gets better! That’s what the Youtube videos… Read More ›
“Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today…. Read More ›
Around noon Wednesday, publication day of the latest weekly issue, two three armed and masked men dressed all in black walked into the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire with Kalashnikovs. Twelve people are confirmed dead,… Read More ›
Hello again, kittens! Happy what-is-it WEDNESDAY! That’s it, Wednesday. All day. Happy Wednesday, and truly, were two less-likely sentencemates ever cobbled together to provide a desperately-reaching link roundup intro? I think not. I very much think not. And so to… Read More ›
So it is with a hopeful heart and a Godzilla haiku with which we say goodbye to 2014 and hello to whatever tinfoil-reinforcing insanity 2015 will bring. Our first year has been a good one, overall. While we missed our… Read More ›
Let’s take a hypothetical: say, you’re a self-proclaimed whistleblower and security conference attendee with a Twitter account, a highly-strung nature, and roughly 300 followers. We’ve all been at those conferences. We know what they’re like. Maybe you’re a little bored;… Read More ›
We’re back (before taking yet another holiday!) kittens! Did Santa/TheBigChiefDruid/Whoever bring you what you wanted this Festivus? Yeah, us neither. So full your mug with a bracing beverage with a heapin’ helpin’ of Bailey’s because the way to get in… Read More ›
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