WikiLeaks for the win! Thanks to (finally) checking in with our dashboard, we now know that the next time we want to take three days off, we should write about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange just before heading offline, because it… Read More ›
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#Anonymous Wishes Matt DeHart a Happy Birthday
In prison. Former American soldier, rumoured WikiLeaks courier, and oldfag Anonymous member Matt DeHart is having a birthday today, his 31st. He won’t be going out to dinner with his parents, won’t be hitting the bars with his friends, and in… Read More ›
Happy Twitterversary, CIA!
Various US government agencies are on social media, with varying degrees of awesomeness or face-palmery. As US government agencies on social media go, relative newcomer the CIA is pretty much the best. Not in terms of giving out actual information:… Read More ›
#BreakTheInternet: #Anonymous Sabu is Back, Bitches!
Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known as the Anonymous, LulzSec, and AntiSec firebrand turned FBI informant Sabu, is back on Twitter. Many thanks to @danstuckey for getting this account back after 3 years of dormancy. https://t.co/Nwv66yMVTe #IMBAAAAAAACCKKK — Hector X. Monsegur… 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 ›
#Anonymous Sweden hacks the #NSA, mentions of hack wiped from #Facebook, #LinkedIn
DⒶʀKᙡiNɢ ಠ_ರೃ , a Swede associated with Anonymous, has claimed a new, and rather relentless, hack of the US National Security Agency’s email server. Nothing so mundane as username/password combinations, the Pastebin of the hack lists the methodology and blow-by-blow… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 24
Sabu Week is in full effect, kittens! Aren’t you thrilled? Don’t worry, once we’ve settled some old scores and shone some light into some dark corners of Anonymous and its alumni, we’ll be back to regular programming. In fact, we’ll… Read More ›
#Anonymous vs #ISIS: the ongoing skirmishes of #OpISIS
In the realm of social media wars, some are more fraught than others. There are the inevitable, tiresome third-glass-of-Malbec Friday night spats, and then there are the ones where lives, and possibly immortal souls, are at stake. Anonymous is expert… Read More ›
Tweets o’ the Day: Daily #Sabu vs #Anonymous
Well, @DailySabu vs Anonymous and AntiSec and LulzSec and everything beautiful or decent in this world. Which is why it’s so wonderfully, marvelously, deliciously awful. I invented a computer on display at SXSW that runs on the tears of Jeremy… Read More ›
“Fuck #Anonymous, I’m at Spa Castle,” New Vine of Hector “Sabu” Monsegur Generates Outrage
will someone tell these amateur journalists that if you get Sabu in the tub you are supposed to throw the radio in when white rabbit peaks? — Kim Jung-Dot Com (@JahbaHimself) March 15, 2015 When the hate-click train comes in,… Read More ›
Numbers: The News
“The dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.” – Terry Pratchett It’s hard to get the news from blogs,… Read More ›
#Anonymous vs #DailyDot: Day 2 of #OpDDD
It’s Day Two of #OpDestroyDailyDot or #OpDDD for short. Can we call you #OpDDD? We feel like we’re getting to know you a lot better. You can call us “The.” To recap, if you missed our exhaustive article from yesterday: news… Read More ›
Is Infocommunism A Real Danger? The Circle by Dave Eggers
Does the amount of things that Google knows about you scare you? In my last review, I discussed Angwin’s Dragnet Nation. This week, I’m reviewing a fictional representation of this idea pushed to its extreme: a network so all… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 20
We made it! We crawled, dragged, rolled, staggered, or jogged to the end of the work week. Cast off the suit jackets and uncomfortable shoes, and don the floppy slippers and Thuggies that say a) this is the weekend and… Read More ›
Instant Karma, Internet-Style
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 ›
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