It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. The time would, presumably, have been sometime after Happy Hour, as you’d have to be drunk or crazy to think this would actually work. Still, we like the audacity of… Read More ›
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God Hates Bitcoin
Okay, that’s it. I’m moving all my money to Cthulhu-based cryptocurrency. Tucson, Arizona’s only Bitcoin ATM was struck by lightning last Friday. Tucson remains stuck in the dark ages ever since, unable to obtain Bitcoin except through such venerable, traditional… Read More ›
Superpower for Hire: Rise of the Private Military
Here’s a really interesting video from VICE (yes, VICE, I know) on the recent rise of PMCs, private military contractors, aka mercenaries. Why now? Who hires them? Who are they ultimately working for? Why would we fight wars with PMCs… Read More ›
Crypto Currently: Cryptocurrency prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and RonPaulCoin
Happy Monday, y’all! Time to check the current prices for some of the web’s top, and one of the web’s outlier, cryptocurrencies. Brace your wallets, the weekend market sucked donkeys! Bitcoin: The closer we get to resolving the MtGox situation,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines from Around the World
It’s been a long week, full of plane crashes, buck passing, spies, spooks, hackers, Anons, and Ceiling Cat alone knows what else. Here’s our last roundup for this week, something to enjoy while you lounge poolside, or peruse idly as… Read More ›
Neil McDonald: Grey Hat Black Listed
A computer hacking statute codified in 1961 (yes, before what we think of computers existed) is being wielded against Kiwi grey hat hacker Neil McDonald. His mistake was (in the short form) offering a company information about its weaknesses when… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines for July 24
This week just gets crazier and crazier, people! After everyone got back from HOPE X looks like they all decided to release those reports they’d been sitting on, so we have quite a miscellany for you today; from a car hacking manual to the latest on the most-dragged-out-death-since-Boromir case of MtGox.
Enjoy?
Cryptome Kills the Kickstarter: an interview with John Young
Send us material venal cowards dare not publish — see note below about perfidy of pols, lawyers, journalists, NGOs. You owe it to the fucked over public or shut your shop. John Young, Cryptome.org Who doesn’t want your money? Cryptome.org,… Read More ›
Report from HOPE X: Surveillance, Snowden, Stratfor and Surprises
HOPE X, which took place in New York this past weekend, is one of the premiere events of the hacker calendar. The Cryptosphere correspondent Douglas Lucas was there, presenting on a panel, schmoozing over sushi, sneaking into the press room,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Global Cyber and Crypto Headlines
With the situation in the Ukraine, the situation in Gaza, and the situation on Twitter, it’s a busier day than normal in the Cryptosphere, so we decided to push out our daily link roundup a bit early. Here’s all the top news from around the globe.
Watch: Al Jazeera Investigates Informants
It’s another in our semi-regular series of videos for you to enjoy. This is Al Jazeera’s investigation into the lives of three federal informants, under cover posing as Muslims to recruit would-be jihadis into schemes cooked up by the FBI…. Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto Headlines
Here’s today’s roundup of all the top cyberwar, cryptocurrency, and hacker news. In case you’re curious, Anonymous is still going with OpSaveGaza, but that’s pretty much the default lately so we’ll give off with the links to their actions until… Read More ›
Crypto Currently: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Dolphincoin
Yes, Dolphincoin. They say it’s “a decentralized angel investing cryptocurrency” and we say it’s today’s featured noveltycoin. Splash out at own risk.
Current prices for:
Privacy is Dead: Get Over It with Steve Rambam
This is a playlist (sorry, it’s the best we could find) of private investigator Steve Rambam‘s classic talk Privacy is Dead. The talk has depressed and inspired and startled security experts for years, and once again Rambam’s (newly updated) talk… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber headlines for July 21
It was a lively weekend, kittens, with the Hackers On Planet Earth conference at the forefront of the noisemaking, followed closely by continuing Anonymous attacks against Israel and a surprise pwnage in Kenya. And so to the headlines: Something you… Read More ›
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