Trolling

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The Ashley Madison Hack, as explained by weev

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It’s the weev show! The world’s most famous troll explains the infamous Ashley Madison cheating site hack and leak. He’s done it in the form of a monologue on YouTube because as he explained on Twitter, Vice asked him for… Read More ›

Nobel Troll via "Nobel Peace Prize" on Twitter

Trolling Level: Nobel Prize

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Presented without further comment: Well, just one little comment: the actual Nobel Prize Twitter account has 165,000 Twitter followers. This upstart has only 17 at the time of posting this article. The real winners were the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet…. Read More ›

Barrett Brown Cheers

Video: Bathtime for Barrett

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Occasionally we at The Cryptosphere feel that the cyberwar/hacktivism world could use a little levity, and therefore we are pleased to present this otherwise news-value-free video by Xylergeist. It is nothing more nor less than a drag king recreation of Barrett Brown’s second most-famous… Read More ›

Twitter some days. I tell ya.

Instant Karma, Internet-Style

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Let’s take a hypothetical: say, you’re a self-proclaimed whistleblower and security conference attendee with a Twitter account, a highly-strung nature, and roughly 300 followers. We’ve all been at those conferences. We know what they’re like. Maybe you’re a little bored;… Read More ›

Gamergate

Numbers: Men’s Rights

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“For this too is the lot of man.”— Siduri the Wine Maker, Gilgamesh If strippers are a kind of walking wounded, Where do all our crippled menfolk go To hide between the worm and green corn moon? The crystal lattices… Read More ›