Tonight the Internet Party of New Zealand is hosting a major international event live online, featuring interviews with internet eminents including Internet Party founder Kim Dotcom, alleged hacktivist and Cryptosphere contributor Lauri Love, political refugee and new Internet Party head… Read More ›
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. It used to be an acronym: FUD. Now it’s a whole industry. The terrorists hate us for our freedom, so we better take away the freedoms so we can keep the freedoms safe https://t.co/q3m7t1wfpv — Anonymous (@YourAnonNews)… Read More ›
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
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 ›
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 ›
This article looks into the ways in which meaningful, positive cultural change is being made by revolutionary movements around the world, including the Cypherpunk movement, which advocates encryption as a tool to foster free expression and equality. It is the… Read More ›
This is a repost of Hamilton Nolan’s article of the same title on Gawker (not a lot of crossover in audiences, I’m thinking). Nolan has long cataloged the crimes of corporate and individual overlords and the economic and security losses… Read More ›
This is a reprint of the May, 2013 post of the same title from the Neurovagrant blog of Ian Campbell, with whom we re-connected on Twitter recently. He kindly permitted us to repost this crystal clear lesson in why encryption… Read More ›
Golly, who could have anticipated this? In the wake of both Gamergate and the Jian Ghomeshi revelations from Canada, it seems that significant portions of the world have had enough of international speaker Julien Blanc. I wonder why? #ChokingGirlsAroundTheWorld #Copenhagen… Read More ›
Part 1 is here. This is a reprint of an article which originally appeared at Cyberguerrilla.org, reprinted by permission. This is the third contribution by old Cryptospherian AnonyOdinn; the first was Stop the Power; How to Do Business Without Banks on bank-free… Read More ›
Happy Monday, kittens! We’re leaping headlong into October’s home stretch and we hope you have put the finishing touches on your Infosec Taylor Swift costumes for Halloween. The atomic clock is ticking, kittens! Don’t want to go as the same… Read More ›
This is a reprint of Our Right to Communicate by Heather Marsh, which first appeared April 16, 2013. Marsh is our favorite living political philospher (Zizek is of course a stand up comedian) and favorite ex-WikiLeaker. And some day we’ll… Read More ›
Aaron Swartz was indeed the Internet’s Own Boy. A Harvard Fellow and wunderkind, he was also co-creator of Reddit, RSS feeds (which underpin email newsletters and blog subscriptions), and Creative Commons licensing. He lived and breathed the concept that information… Read More ›
Terrorists spotted protesting on the forrest moon of Endor. Emperor Palatine has deployed the National Guard in response…err Storm Troopers, we meant storm troopers… Does this remind anyone else of Pogo? I’m detecting some new resonances in the War… Read More ›
When the Ferguson, Missouri police fatally shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown (hands in the air when shot, according to witnesses), they did what Israel hadn’t been able to do in weeks: they took the focus of Anonymous off Gaza and… Read More ›
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