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Biella on repeat via @GradElitist on Twitter

Crypto-Affirmations: Enforced Transparency, @BiellaColeman, and Nemesis

By raincoaster on July 29, 2015 • ( 4 )

We are big fans of single-serving social media accounts at Cryptosphere Global HQ. Who doesn’t love Taylor Swift on Security? Or Fashion Zizek? Or, come to think of it, Zizek Ebooks, although who can tell it from the original? We… Read More ›

Warp Speed Dissolving into Monitors 22/365 by Louish Pixel on Flickr

Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto #News for July 23

By raincoaster on July 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

*peeks out from cyberbunker* Is it clear? Is it safe? Is it even still there? We’re back from a two day mental health break (insert cheap, self-effacing joke here) and on Link Duty, so grab the beverage of your choice… Read More ›

étude des 10-proportions de l'esprit humain . . (v² ! g) by Jef Safi on Flickr

Film Friday: eXistenZ

By raincoaster on July 17, 2015 • ( 1 )

The year was 1999. The dotcom boom had begun to go bust. The Euro was born. Everyone was in love with Shakespeare in Love. The Melissa worm was launched. Bill Gates becomes the richest man in the world. And David… Read More ›

Password picking via the Express Tribune on Twitter

Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto #News for July 15

By raincoaster on July 15, 2015 • ( 0 )

What day is it, kittens? That’s right: today! All day! How exciting is that? And today is the first day of the rest of my computer’s new life, courtesy of four or five ice packs which are keeping it from… Read More ›

AnonCoders Claim to Have Hacked More Than 23,000 Twitter Accounts

By raincoaster on July 14, 2015 • ( 1 )

So there we were, minding other peoples’ business on Facebook while everyone else in North America was at a 4th of July barbeque or still nursing a Canada Day hangover, when we got a ping from an account claiming to… Read More ›

Danny Deepdream via Danny Dannington on Twitter

Numbers: Autocorrect

By Curt on July 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

The Internet will never be your friend, It isn’t now and won’t be at the end. It’s not a tool of which you are the master, It’s just a way to sell a little faster. No magic kingdom, this plutocracy,… Read More ›

Victoria Taylor Returns to #Reddit, Bids Redditors Farewell

By raincoaster on July 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

Will the Reddit news never cease? As the petition to ask CEO Ellen Pao to step down passes 200,000 signatures, the woman whose dismissal started the ruckus known as #TheDarkening or #RedditRevolt has returned to Reddit, if only to say… Read More ›

Sad Santa by LostInAngeles.com on Flickr

#Reddit Fires Santa! Secret Santa Creator Axed

By raincoaster on July 3, 2015 • ( 2 )

Reddit management strikes again! While the Reddit world (such as it is) was reeling from the abrupt firing of popular AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor, management snuck in some other “involuntary exits” including kickme444, the creator of the beloved, and justly… Read More ›

Reaction GIF cartoon courtesy Rob Cottingham at RobCottingham.ca/cartoon

Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for July 3

By raincoaster on July 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

It’s a Freaky Friday indeed…indeed we’re not even sure you’re reading this, so many of our readers have already taken off for the boondocks, the hinterlands, or just the basement, cutting off all contact with the outside world in a… Read More ›

#TheDarkening: #Reddit Loses Moderator, Its Shit, Leaks Private Mod Chat

By raincoaster on July 3, 2015 • ( 4 )

When Internet’s Front Page, 32nd most popular website in the world, and Conde Nast property Reddit is in an upheaval over moderators moderating (shutting down fat-shaming subreddits, for instance, although leaving r/coontown untouched), only one thing will distract it: Reddit… Read More ›

Canada Day Not In Our Name via CDHill9 on Twitter

Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for July 1

By raincoaster on July 1, 2015 • ( 0 )

(Arguably Un)Happy Canada Day, kittens! How does life under the newly-enacted Bill C-51 feel? Safer? Freeer? Patrioticer? Securier? Harperier? Just gosh-darned awesomer? Anyone? Anyone? Huh. Guess even the crickets are offline today. For the voiceless and the un-Canadian, we nonetheless… Read More ›