You might think, with an average salary of $28,000, almost $10,000 above the median in town, that Ferguson, Missouri police might be able to supply the bare necessities for themselves. If the individual falls a little short, you (you socialist,… Read More ›
Politics
Essential #Ferguson Documents: Grand Jury Transcript, Evidence, Witness Interviews
There are hundreds of pages of information here, thoughtfully collated by the court transcriptionist and uploaded by St. Louis Public Radio. Surely there are by now tens of thousands of analysis and recapping pieces on the internet, but here is… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for November 26
Happy hump day, kittens. Don’t worry: with the help of enough bracing beverages and news links, you’ll get over it and on the smooth downhill slide to Thursday. After that, who knows? Maybe Friday! Introducing better ideas is far more… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 25
Only a month till Christmas, kittens! You can get us anything from the Free Anons, WikiLeaks, or Welcome to Night Vale stores. Including Jeremy Hammond, Julian Assange, or Cecil the Radio Announcer. Even though he is gay and will never… Read More ›
Fear and Loathing in Onion Land: The Deep Web
This is a guest contribution from old Cryptosphere pal Gonzo PhD. It originally appeared on the Grey Coat Labs blog. I personally will continue to use Tor (with a VPN, can’t have salt without pepper) but your mileage may vary…. Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 24
Happy Monday, kittens! Have you enjoyed your weekend of responsibility-free carousing or blissful inertia, according to your preference? Did you remember to get offline? Excellent! Then you’ll need to do some catching up. Here’s where you start. Michael Brown shooter… Read More ›
Film Friday: George Orwell’s 1984 (the 1956 version) paired with the Cocaine and Cigarettes Cocktail
For those of you who’ve always wondered where those memes come from on your most radical friend’s Facebook posts, or why that old Apple commercial is Such A Big Deal: well, half of the memes are from Animal Farm and… 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 ›
Read Groucho Marx’s FBI File
He wasn’t just Hollywood. He wasn’t just Jewish. Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx was a proud and vocal liberal Democrat with a mouth and a wit that should have been registered as lethal weapons. So, naturally, the FBI started a file… Read More ›
Best Images from #Anonymous #OpKKK
Okay, maybe Anonymous didn’t really hijack the KKK’s Twitter account, but they scored one hell of a propaganda victory by convincing most news junkies that they had. And this is just plain funny. If you’ve been hiding under a rock… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News Special #ConeSec Edition
Happy Friday, kittens! Today’s news roundup is dedicated to the principle that using the ubiquitous orange cone simply as a traffic divider is a staggering and shameful waste of potential. The hacker principle can as easily be applied to lifeless… Read More ›
$670 Billion Served: An Interview with Redhack Hacktivist Collective
Is it just me, or is Turkey one of the most interesting countries on the planet right now? Whether it’s indulging in geopolitical gamesmanship over US intervention in Syria, playing the Kurds off against ISIS, dealing with what is beginning… Read More ›
#OpKKK from #Anonymous defrocks racists across America
This, an image inspired by Banksy’s ephemeral artwork in civil rights flashpoint Birmingham, Alabama, is what you call Shots Fired. Anonymous has declared war on the Ku Klux Klan, the American racial hate group first made internationally infamous in the 1891… Read More ›
Tsunami of Support for #OpKillingBay from #Anonymous
Save the Whales! And the Dolphins too! It’s a nearly 40-year-old war cry from Greenpeace, and on Friday the 14th of November it was taken up (again) by Anonymous, as their #OpKillingBay topped trending lists worldwide in a Tweetstorm tsunami. #OpKillingBay… Read More ›
Interewebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 17
Happy Monday, kittens! It’s a slow start to the Cryptosphere this week, as we stayed up all weekend watching Anonymous do its thing, which it did massively, starting Friday: multiple posts on that coming soon, as well as an… Read More ›