We will be very surprised if this editorial, from lawyer Irina Tsukerman, does not cause kerfuffles a-plenty. Not every whistleblower is a whistleblower, and not every action which inconveniences those in power is worthy of worship. Pull up a chair,… Read More ›
Opinion
Review: Cybercrimes Is for Chavs OR: Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley Ain’t Good
This review of the BBC’s “Cybercrimes” documentary series is by the talented, entertaining, and really, really angry Matthew D. Phelan. Upon re-reading this empassioned screed, our humble scribe re-watched a few episodes, thinking, “It can’t really be as bad as… Read More ›
The Registered Voter Leak: Big Deal or No Big Deal?
This controversial op/ed analysis of the recent, and substantial, leak of registered voter information, comes to us from Dominick Bruno. It is his first contribution to The Cryptosphere, so let’s make him welcome. On December 28th, the internet was… Read More ›
Thousands Defy French Ban on Public Protest – Demand Liberté and Action at #COP21
This report and the photos come to us from our old friend Joe Solomon, who is on the scene in Paris for the Climate Talk protests, and originally appeared on Common Dreams. The day began at dawn, as Avaaz and… Read More ›
V vs. V: Of faith and treason and #Anonymous
This article comes to us from Ted Morrison, a Victoria, BC-based writer, editor, and sometime political blogger. We invited him to discuss and/or review V for Vendetta: the book, the movie, or both. Instead of a regular review, he gave… Read More ›
#Prison #America II: Stanley Cohen on the Prison Industrial Complex
This is Part II of Prison America. See here for Part I. Radical firebrand, Anonymous friend, and activist lawyer Stanley Cohen is currently a guest of the President at USP Canaan, a prison in rural Pennsylvania, serving 18 months behind bars… Read More ›
Prison America: An Editorial by #Anonymous and #Activist Lawyer Stanley Cohen
Radical firebrand, Anonymous friend, and activist lawyer Stanley Cohen is currently a guest of the President at USP Canaan, a high security prison in rural Pennsylvania, serving 18 months behind bars for tax evasion. It is from the proud New Yorker’s… Read More ›
Remember Stanley Cohen: Sue Crabtree of FreeAnons on the Imprisoned and Overlooked #Anonymous Lawyer
Today’s Op/Ed comes to us from Sue Crabtree of FreeAnons, who has just discovered that one of the best-loved lawyers (no that’s not a contradiction) in the Anonymous world has apparently been forgotten by those on whose behalf he has… Read More ›
Aaron Swartz: A Reminder
Aaron Swartz was truly The Internet’s Own Boy. And they truly did kill him. Driven to suicide by the prospect of decades in prison for merely accessing thousands of protected academic journals in line with the “information wants to be… Read More ›
Opinion: #Anonymous Minds Social Networks
This is an Opinion piece by a longtime participant in Anonymous, who wishes to be identified only as “an Anon.” We are pleased to present this meditation on media, minds, Anonymous, anonymity, social media and the hype cycle. With the… Read More ›
Julian Assange’s Three Years in Ecuador in Knightsbridge
KEEP FIGHTING, he says. He has no choice. For the last three years, since June 18, 2012, Julian Assange has been detained involuntarily in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London; he entered of his own free will, but that was before… Read More ›
On Omar Khadr and being Canadian since the summer of 2002
This article originally appeared on GeorgieBC, and is reprinted here with permission of the author, Heather Marsh, who is a semi-regular contributor to the Cryptosphere, and a leading activist on behalf of Omar Khadr, who has been a prisoner of one… Read More ›
Crisis at the State Department: an Op/Ed by Joe Fionda
This is Strike Two. Daniel Rosen, U.S. State Department Counterterrorism Director of Policy & Planning, was arrested three weeks ago for sexual solicitation of a 14 year old girl. He has again been arrested. This time, Rosen was charged in the District… Read More ›
Understanding the AUMF and the 9/11 Attitude by AnonyÓðinn
This is another in AnonyÓðinn‘s ongoing series of essays examining the political and economic underpinnings of our current, and somewhat fraught, situation. Socioeconomic assumptions that lay unexamined for the past forty or fifty years must now be reviewed, tested against current… Read More ›
Numbers: The Wolf from Pisgah
“Our dead never forget the beautiful world that gave them life.” – Chief Si’alh “I became a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson I could not cross the river with The wolf I saw… Read More ›