In this groundbreaking article Vancouver eminence grise and literatus extraordinaire Sean Cranbury lays out a devastatingly effective campaign plan for the Conservatives’ most mysterious candidate in the upcoming federal election, Jpeg James Low, the almost-certainly-doomed Tory candidate for Vancouver East…. Read More ›
Politics
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Sept 29
Have the android bring a round of doppios. It’s only Tuesday, thankfully International Coffee Day, and we can already tell it’s gonna be a long week. Where’s the damn bot with those espressos already? What’s Italian for “four shots and… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Sept 28
Did you get offline long enough to see the SuperBloodMoonClipse last night? Did you at least Instagram it? We didn’t: we were inside swearing at our crashy compy and at all the stories that broke over the weekend, once again… Read More ›
Taiwan, Hong Kong Also Affected by #FacebookDown, China Apparently Unaffected
We have an update to our earlier story about the worldwide Facebook outages September 23/24 called #FacebookDown. That attack was attributed to unnamed and as-yet-unidentified hacktivists by Pirate Party activist and Cryptosphere contributor Raymond Johansen, and to an unheard-of collective… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for September 11
We made it to Friday, kittens! With a little help from a long weekend and a LOT of technical difficulties, the posting schedule has been inadvertently light at Cryptosphere Global HQ this week, and for that we apologize. Still thanks… Read More ›
Interwebbed #Cyber and #Crypto #News for Sept 9
I know, kittens, that’s a huge GIF, but that’s a huge message, isn’t it? Rest in peace, Rowdy Roddy, our greatest hero. Next to Rowsdower. Zap Rowsdower. America gets the government it deserves, but Canada gets the heroes it needs,… Read More ›
Interwebbed #Cyber and #Crypto #News for Sept 4
Whee, kittens! It’s Friday! Let’s celebrate and spread the kawaii luv with ISIS Chan, seen here with her identical twin bringing the “Yayyyyy” factor to an otherwise dour meeting of Daesh fighters. We at Cryptosphere World Headquarters are atoning for… Read More ›
Interwebbed #Cyber and #Crypto #News for Sept 3
Today’s link roundup is brought to you by the Letters inspired by Mail to the Jail, the Number of Black and First Nations People Shot by Police, and by the Concept of Plausible Deniability. Smeared by Iran’s State-Run Media: A Journal… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Sept 2
Shh, kittens, shhhh. Not so loud. Our warren of cyborg webmonkeys is having a difficult morning; seems someone swapped in decaf for caf in the socialist communal coffee pot, and they’re mostly crying softly, and distinctly unenergetically, into their keyboards…. Read More ›
Numbers: Badawi to His Torturers
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. – Psalm 84:7 Cracking and shattering, Shoulders and ribcages Stronger than oak under Cane after cane: “Pain is the weaponry Favored by weaklings and Strength… Read More ›
Interwebbed #Cyber and #Crypto #News for August 27
Twas the day before Friday and all through the ‘Sphere our tech minions were working to keep channels clear. There were rumours of hacks coming in from afar, and a specious hot tip from some guy at the bar. The… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for August 24
Happy Monday, kittens! We’ve got the latest on prison death cults from Barrett Brown, Vint Cerf, who basically invented the internet, on the future of the internet, when good people put bad things on Facebook (Facebook hides them), your policing… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmations: Salman Rushdie on #Security
This pretty much says it all, eh kittens? "There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity." –Salman Rushdie — wily (@0x1C) August 17, 2015
Interwebbed #Cyber and #Crypto #News for August 20
The Ashley Madison dump continues to leak, in a denouement exactly as savory as its mission statement. Journalists continue to be murdered. Drones continue to get hacked. Prisoners continue getting shot by police. And Cryptospherian kittens keep on reading about… Read More ›
Tortured
Originally posted on The Gad About Town:
The cane broke. Isn’t that all we need to know? The switch broke. Raymond Johansen allowed himself to be tortured yesterday in solidarity with Saudi writer Raif Badawi. He was hit 50 times…