Cryptosphere contributor, Occupy stalwart, and dedicated Adrian Lamo heckler Lauri Love has been arrested in the UK, and after two years of sparring, a request for extradition has been filed by the US. He faces no charges in the United Kingdom:… Read More ›
What day is it, kittens? That’s right: today! All day! How exciting is that? And today is the first day of the rest of my computer’s new life, courtesy of four or five ice packs which are keeping it from… Read More ›
Happy Tuesday, kittens! As long as this computer works, we will be here for you with link roundups and breaking hacktivism and cyberwar news. This computer, however, has been intermittently striking (in solidarity with the people of Greece? we’re not… Read More ›
TG to the IF, kittens! And to top it off, it’s my birthday! And in four short days, The Cryptosphere’s birthday, too! What did you get us? Oh? Oh. Oh, it’s okay. No, no, it’s fine. You do know we… Read More ›
Welcome back, kittens! We have been extremely involuntarily offline thanks to our laptop taking a Negroni directly to the keyboard. Sticky cocktails do not a happy laptop make: who knew? After giving it a good vodka chaser (well, rubbing alcohol,… Read More ›
It’s a Freaky Friday indeed…indeed we’re not even sure you’re reading this, so many of our readers have already taken off for the boondocks, the hinterlands, or just the basement, cutting off all contact with the outside world in a… Read More ›
It’s too early in the week for a robot uprising, but that didn’t stop one enterprising machine in a German auto plant. And it didn’t stop poor FT employment columnist Sarah O’Connor from tweeting out the news before she realized… Read More ›
Greetings Citizens of Canada, peoples and Anons of the world. We are #OpCyberPrivacy and this is #AntiCanadaDay. On this day we protest against the passing of C-51 and it’s royal assent to law. We protest against the systemic invasion of… Read More ›
(Arguably Un)Happy Canada Day, kittens! How does life under the newly-enacted Bill C-51 feel? Safer? Freeer? Patrioticer? Securier? Harperier? Just gosh-darned awesomer? Anyone? Anyone? Huh. Guess even the crickets are offline today. For the voiceless and the un-Canadian, we nonetheless… Read More ›
America gets the $10 bill it deserves! Pool party po-po emails a no-go…unless you cross their palms with silver. Unstoppable cyberspies that CANNOT BE UNPLUGGED! Cyberpunk lessons from South America of the 70’s. And more in hyperbolic yet shockingly true… Read More ›
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 ›
Ah, Ratinox, the greatest criminal of the 25th Century. When we stumbled across this image on Twitter, we knew we’d found the proper featured image for our link roundup. James Bolivar diGriz aka The Stainless Steel Rat is indeed our… Read More ›
Ah, the internet. A crazy habitrail of tubes, geeks, hatred and kittehs. It’s truly the Place Your Mother Warned You About, and now you have to go there every day. For work. (and pr0n) You’ve… seen things you people wouldn’t… Read More ›
Still hungover from Suits and Spooks (and Snitches?)? Us too, kittens. Now it’s time for healing, resting, and conserving our strength for CCC in August. Everyone’s least-favorite snitch will be there, so be sure to have the proper attire on… Read More ›
Of The Hacker Wars we have spoken oft before: the documentary by Vivien Lesnik Wiseman is the definitive cinematic depiction of the golden days of hacktivism, LulzSec, AntiSec, and the rest, and also of their inevitable fall. A fall, we… Read More ›
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