“Language has run riot in an age of mass communication. It must be reduced to its proper function – the expression of authentic content, rather than its concealment.” Martin Esslin If Anonymous is not a hacking gang, With a master… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber #News for October 3
TGIF, kittens! Raise a yellow umbrella and a cup of a cheering beverage to the end of the work week and the start of…a weekend of recovery from the work week? Sure, let’s go with that. The tear gas continues… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 2
It’s hump day, kittens! Have you been humping along well so far this week? Terrific. Now get off my leg. It’s your favorite time of day; no, not beer o’clock. Unless you’re bohemian that way and like to start… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for September 30
Welcome to Tuesday! While you were asleep a great number of very interesting things happened. And here they all are! US attacks foreigners: FBI warns of a retaliatory flood of hacktivism (but wait, I thought Anonymous was anti-ISIS? Could this be… Read More ›
OpSafeWinter Continues: Tweetstorm Report
On Sunday, September 28 between 3-8pm EST, Anonymous’ OpSafeWinter held a Tweetstorm, a Twitter-based event designed to raise awareness among the general public. As we previously reported, OpSafeWinter is designed to support the homeless by creating an honest census of… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News for September 29
That’s a damn good question, kitten. My personal suggestion would be to try reading a nice, nutritious link roundup to get the week, if not your ass, in gear. Dennis Collins aka Owen aka Iowa of the Paypal 14 and… Read More ›
#Anonymous re-launches #OpSafeWinter for the Homeless
OpSafeWinter, one of Anonymous’ most effective non-hacking Ops, is back (not that it actually went away) and we’ve got an interview with the international team behind it. As is traditional, the interviewees declined to identify themselves, other than as organizers… Read More ›
Pic o’ the Day: Che Malkovich!
Now THAT is a face that I would wear on a t-shirt! It’s from a great Sandro Miller series of portraits of actor and icon John Malkovich in costume as various famous portrait subjects. No Queen Elizabeth, but there is… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News Digest for September 25
Good morning, kittens! Still recovering from our 34 link dump from yesterday? Well, there there, today we’ll go a little easier on you. And besides, looks like most hackers (or at least most hacker reporters) took most of Tuesday off…. Read More ›
Economics Showdown: Billionaires vs The Poors
The stereotype of the “Welfare Queen” actually applies more to the behaviour of Billionaires than to The Poors, according to two recent studies. It’s ironic that these two articles would come across the transom on the same day, but it’s… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto Headlines for September 23 and 24
Welcome to our late afternoon double-stacked linkdump. The Cryptosphere has finally moved into the new offices, shared with an unnamed community radio station, and they are swank indeed. I could podcast to my heart’s content with this setup, if it weren’t heavy… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News (yes I hashtagged it, sue me!) for September 17
Well kittens, it’s Hump Day and we hope you’re humping along just fine this week. If not, we hope this gif offers you solace and inspiration, much like the Julian Assange post from yesterday. Here are some news stories to… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for August 16
Welcome to Tuesday! Today’s a big Long Reads day, so you’d best warm up your cogitation muscles by skimming over I MEAN DEEP READING our news roundup headlines. Enjoy your daily ritual of cyberwar and crypto news before the drama… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News for September 15
We’re back from our wireless vacay, pirating the wifi in a pirate radio station off the Left Coast. There’s a big, hairy dog on the floor, a discussion of minimum wage on the air, and while there is no picture… Read More ›
Yahoo vs the NSA: advantage Yahoo
For the past seven years, Yahoo has been fighting the NSA in court. Why haven’t you heard about this till now? Because they were secret courts, secret proceedings, and secret terms. And Edward Snowden hadn’t been invented yet. Yahoo lost…. Read More ›