This is our second guest post by Joe Fionda, actor and activist. President Obama is set to go before congress for the State of the Union and argue for reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). He will… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Old Master News
Come to think of it “The Old Master” would be a pretty good hacker name. Too bad I’ve doubled down on @F*ckS4boo. But it’s a new dawn, kittens. Time to face it bravely, armed with nothing more than your own… Read More ›
Anonymous’ #OpSafeWinterMTL Takes Up the Cause of the Homeless Against Montreal Police
The Internet Hate Machine picks its IRL battles carefully: Scientology. Wall Street. Arab Spring. And, beloved by Anons worldwide, the globe-spanning soup-kitchen-providing, clothing-and-supplies-donating, homeless-supporting OpSafeWinter. OpSafeWinter has been so powerful that in the slums of Sao Paulo, the infamous BlackBloc… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for Jan 19
Happy Monday, kittens! It’s a good day, as long as you’re not a French Muslim extremist, a formerly-confidential informant, an indicted but not yet convicted hacker, or a Lizard Squaddie. Why? Well, those particular types of people are having, quite… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmations: Werner Herzog’s Guide to Life
Brace yourself. This is weird, even for The Cryptosphere: legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog has released a book called Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin, and on the back cover he has outlined 24 points that… Read More ›
Numbers: The Capital of Hell
“The only objects of practical reason are those of good and evil.” — Immanuel Kant How do pimps beseech and praise their god? In the sky, the temple doors are charred And all the cafes are ghosted with the dead…. Read More ›
Survival Gear and the Old Man and the Sea
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 ›
Blackhat: a Hacker’s Movie Review
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 ›
Teaching Decentralization in a Centralized Era
This article was written by Manuel Beltrán, Luis Rodil-Fernández and Pawel Pokutycki of the Alternative Learning Tank in the Netherlands; it originally appeared on their site. We are grateful to them and to ALT for allowing us to share it with our readers. In… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Jan 15
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 ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Jan 14
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 ›
CENTCOM Hints Blame Lies With “Lone Wolf” Attacker for Social Media Hack
Today General Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of CENTCOM, posted to CENTCOM’s Facebook page a letter to CENTCOM members and supporters apologizing for the pro-ISIS Twitter and YouTube hack yesterday. The letter did not specifically assign blame or describe the… Read More ›
Terrorism Works
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 ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News for Jan 13
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 #CyberCaliphate vs US #CENTCOM
The latest skirmish in the Propaganda Wars has all the elements of farce, many of the elements of a mystery, and quite a few of the elements of FUD. Hey @BarackObama next time tell #CENTCOM that "Waterboarding" is a weak… Read More ›
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