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 ›
Opinion
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 ›
Happy Birthday Chelsea
Happy 27th Birthday to American whistleblower and hero (or traitor; opinions vary although this one is wrong) Chelsea Manning. It’s a birthday Manning celebrates in custody, as she has every birthday of the last four; she can anticipate many more,… Read More ›
How to Commit Thoughtcrime
This is another cross-post from the AntiMedia, again by Justin King (who very kindly wrote and thanked us for giving proper credit the last time we cross-posted one of his articles, the highly practical “Eight Lessons Learned from the Million… Read More ›
Guest Post: NSA Quits Spying on Americans Out of Disgust
We’re pleased as POG to present our latest guest post; this one is a satirical essay very much in the tradition of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Our featured writer is Peter Van Buren, author of Ghosts of Tom Joad:… Read More ›
Vintage Longreads: The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era by Vernor Vinge
Today’s loooooooong read from the dusty recesses of the distant digital past, which is to say 1993 which was 21 years ago GOD I’M OLD, comes to us from philosopher and mathematician Verner Vinge. In this seminal paper in the… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmation for the Day
If you see something, say nothing. And drink to forget. Night Vale Wise words, my friends. Wise words. Featured image Strange by Kevin Dooley on Flickr
The Cryptosphere founder Lorraine Murphy on AnonUK Radio
Here we (I) are (am) talking forest fires, Jeremy Hammond, the nature of “Anonymous” as an idea, the diversity of revolution, the tendency of government to retain and escalate control rather than to give it up, whether or not Snowden… Read More ›
Technological Imperialism: Nastaliq vs Google and Apple
We are very happy to inaugurate our Opinion column with this piece by Ali Eteraz on the casual censorship of Big Technology, and its effect on language and identity. I’m a Bay Area based writer who has gotten fed up… Read More ›
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