Media

Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News from the Web

By raincoaster on August 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

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 ›

Stacie Te Korako of Free Matt DeHart on AnonUKEire Radio

By raincoaster on August 4, 2014 • ( 3 )

Matt DeHart is an American, a former soldier, former drone pilot, former Anon, former World of Warcraft guild master, former would-be defector, and, according to the FBI, a former child porn producer. No child porn has ever been found on… Read More ›

State Department Leaked Talking Points: Read Them Here

By raincoaster on July 31, 2014 • ( 2 )

“This report tells a story of which no American is proud.” Unnamed, Presumably Now Mortified, US State Department Employee Indeed, the faceless employee was referring to the story of the CIA’s systematic use of torture to interrogate prisoners, but he… Read More ›

Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber News for Today

By raincoaster on July 31, 2014 • ( 0 )

As we get over hump day and stagger desperately towards the weekend which shimmers in the distance like the promise of redemption, the international news comes faster and faster, as aides-de-camp (des-camps?) shove press release after press release under the… Read More ›

Linked In, Kicked Out

By raincoaster on July 30, 2014 • ( 2 )

A family’s LinkedIn posts have been used against them in a case which stripped the (now formerly) Canadian family of their citizenship and gifted them with court costs of $63,000, over and above what they’ve paid to fight the case so… Read More ›

Superpower for Hire: Rise of the Private Military

By raincoaster on July 28, 2014 • ( 4 )

Here’s a really interesting video from VICE (yes, VICE, I know) on the recent rise of PMCs, private military contractors, aka mercenaries. Why now? Who hires them? Who are they ultimately working for? Why would we fight wars with PMCs… Read More ›

What to Do When Someone Steals Your Stuff

By raincoaster on July 28, 2014 • ( 7 )

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 ›

SCHWA the movie: Watch it in full

By raincoaster on July 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

Aliens! Conspiracies! Surveillance! The Panopticon! Shadowy corporate overlords with murky and malevolent agendas! Honestly, what’s not to like? SCHWA is a twenty-year-old phenomenon from the mind of William Barker. First surfacing in semi-underground zines like BoingBoing, it became, for a… Read More ›

The turmoil of the day freezes in a thousand absurd postures

Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines from Around the World

By raincoaster on July 25, 2014 • ( 1 )

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 ›

Watch: Al Jazeera Investigates Informants

By raincoaster on July 22, 2014 • ( 1 )

It’s another in our semi-regular series of videos for you to enjoy. This is Al Jazeera’s investigation into the lives of three federal informants, under cover posing as Muslims to recruit would-be jihadis into schemes cooked up by the FBI…. Read More ›