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 ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Jan 12
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 ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Jan 9
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 ›
#Anonymous wishes Jeremy Hammond Happy Birthday with Children’s Book Project
Jeremy Hammond, the AntiSec anarchist activist and hacker who liberated the Global Intelligence Files ie about 5 million private emails, passwords, and more, from private intelligence contractor Stratfor and handed them over to WikiLeaks via a series of cloak and… Read More ›
The Hacker Manifesto
This post is long, long overdue: in fact, I should have started this website with this post. This is the original Hacker Manifesto by The Mentor, a member of the Legion of Doom hacker crew. It was first published 29… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Jan 8
“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 ›
Charlie Hebdo, Satirical French Magazine, Invaded by Gunmen: 12 Dead
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 ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for Jan 7
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 ›
2014 in The Cryptosphere
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 ›
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 ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 31 2015
Well, we don’t know what your 2014 was like, but ours was a daily and endless reminder that Eris is the most patient, enduring, and irresistible god. It was an unceasing progression of chaos, during which we only achieved equilibrium… Read More ›
The Best VPN of All
This is a guest post by ro0ted, founder of the hacker crew of the same name. It is reposted with permission and slight editing for clarity from a Twitlonger of yesterday. We reprint this not in the expectation that you,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 30
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 ›
#Anonymous, #Sony, #Hackers and Other Hashtags: The Cryptosphere Editor Lorraine Murphy on the John, Paul and Mic Show
Well, this was fun. Basically, I love podcasts because I don’t have to comb my hair; hell, sometimes I don’t even have to get out of my pajamas. For the John, Paul and Mic show, however, I had to be… Read More ›
Jeremy Hammond: I’m an #Anonymous hacker in prison, and I am not a crook. I’m an activist
https://freeanons.org/ This is a guest post stolen wholesale from the Guardian’s Comment Is Free (which does not pay contributors, so we don’t feel guilty in the least). Jeremy Hammond is currently serving ten years for his part in the Stratfor… Read More ›