As Turkish PM Erdogan continues attempting a tricky balancing act, pandering to both Islamic fundamentalists on the one hand and multinational corporations on the other, police cracked down on the nation’s Pride Parades. Although homosexuality is not illegal in Turkey,… Read More ›
Some places have Pepsi in vending machine. Some places have burner phones. Some places have used schoolgirl panties. And then some countries have actual gold bars. Welcome to Singapore, where they like their money portable, but more palpable than digital…. Read More ›
This is another in the ongoing series on Enforced Transparency by Raymond Johansen and Kitty Hundal, featured here on the Cryptosphere as well as their own site, HacktivistCulture, with related articles on the Fifth Column News, and HackRead. This article… Read More ›
Lauri Love, the Brit/Scot/Finn accused of hacking into multiple US government computers including those of NASA, the EPA, the US Army, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and the US Missile Defence System, has successfully confronted the UK government, and… Read More ›
Zoinks, looks like Scooby Doo was real life after all. When I was little, I thought that when you became a teenager you were given a van and either an English Sheepdog or a Great Dane, and you and your… Read More ›
Hackers and psyops and malware, oh my! It’s an action-packed news roundup for this hump day, so grab a cup of java/decaf skim latte and get hustling. Here’s all the news you need to know and some that you don’t…. Read More ›
Close the book on this week, she’s a goner! Only eight more measly hours until sweet, sweet freedom during which we recover spiritual and physical strength to do it all over again. Or just top up our blood alcohol levels… Read More ›
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 ›
Welcome to Malware Monday, kittens! Don’t worry, we’re going to run out of these catchy, alliterative, and totally arbitrary keywords soon, but in the meantime, let’s get a fresh cup of java and prepare for the work week. It promises… Read More ›
It had to happen. Anonymous Stands With #Baltimore. | #OpBaltimore — OpBaltimoreOfficial (@AnonOpBaltimore) May 1, 2015 In what’s become a completely inevitable pattern, in response to the death of a young black man at the hands of the police, Anonymous… Read More ›
It’s a busy Hump Day here at The Cryptosphere global HQ: we have screaming hot Google news, Arab Spring fallout, new ways to catch the cops red-handed, and a staggeringly greedy, retroactive power grab by Big Tractor, not to mention the… Read More ›
If you’d asked me a year ago, “do you worry about government surveillance?”, I would have said no. But today, my answer would be an empathic YES. The scary part is that, like most Canadians, I hadn’t worried about that… Read More ›
Sabu Week is in full effect, kittens! Aren’t you thrilled? Don’t worry, once we’ve settled some old scores and shone some light into some dark corners of Anonymous and its alumni, we’ll be back to regular programming. In fact, we’ll… Read More ›
It’s mid-week and so far an interesting one indeed. While the usual “Company X’s database got spewed all over Pastebin” news seems to have calmed down a bit, giving the news cycle time to concentrate more on Nimoy memorabilia, politicians’… Read More ›
In reporting the case of American prisoner Matthew Paul DeHart, it’s rare to encounter good news, but today is that rare day. One day after DeHart’s extradition from Canada, the country where he had sought asylum as a political refugee,… Read More ›
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