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 ›
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Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto #News for Dec 22
Did you have a happy solstice kittens? We got a very special solstice present: banned from posting in Fedbook groups for 24 hours. I think with the time we’ll save we can take up crocheting yurts or learning dead languages,… Read More ›
We Spent 72 Hours with weev and Fled to Bosnia
As one does… Everything world’s most famous troll weev does is complicated. Even his hair is complicated (why is it two different colours?). In this episode of weev got news intrepid reporters from bizarre and extremely cool site DSSK meet him… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 28
Well, that’s the Halloween costume sorted. I was going as Edgar Allan Ho, but Edward Snowdenhands takes it. Scissors always beat paper. Now that we’ve got that decided, we can move on to the news roundup for this morning. If… Read More ›
Trolling Level: Nobel Prize
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 ›
Let the Fur Fly! Interview with the #Reddit Mod who turned r/ #Anonymous to a Furry Paradise
Well kittens, it’s been almost a full week since r/Anonymous got a surprise makeover. On Sunday, August 23 it suddenly turned from a boringly respectable space for the latest in Faceless Do-Goodery Hive news into The Furry Pad, a candy-coloured… Read More ›
#Reddit Wars: #Anonymous Subreddit Pranked, Converted to Furry Forum
What would Guy Fawkes do? He’d probably clutch his pearls and ruffle and swoon clean away. The Internet’s Front Page, ie Reddit, has converted the relatively popular r/Anonymous subreddit from a hacktivism-centric zone for political and elitist poo-flinging into a…forum… Read More ›
#Anonymous vs #Sabu: Protest and Tweetstorm Coming to Suits and Spooks NYC
We all know kittens love rats! This Saturday at 3pm we will all find out just how much, when Hector Xavier Monsegur aka Sabu, the most hated man in the world of hacktivism, takes the stage at the Suits and… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for June 19
We made it to Friday, kittens! Well, kitten. A significant portion of our readership is probably in transit, en route to New York City, either to attend the Suits and Spooks conference or to protest outside of it. Still, who… Read More ›
#BreakTheInternet: #Anonymous Sabu is Back, Bitches!
Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known as the Anonymous, LulzSec, and AntiSec firebrand turned FBI informant Sabu, is back on Twitter. Many thanks to @danstuckey for getting this account back after 3 years of dormancy. https://t.co/Nwv66yMVTe #IMBAAAAAAACCKKK — Hector X. Monsegur… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for May 8
Close the book on this week, she’s a goner! Only eight more measly hours until sweet, sweet freedom during which we recover spiritual and physical strength to do it all over again. Or just top up our blood alcohol levels… Read More ›
Numbers: Men’s Rights
“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 ›
Nymwars II: Facebook Welcomes Drag Queens, Bans weev. UPDATE: and he’s BACK!
Congratulations, Facebook! You finally acknowledged peoples’ right to be known by the names they choose. Last week you acceded to demands from the LGBT community and acknowledged that drag queens would be able to have personal profiles under their drag… Read More ›
Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto #News for August 12
Another week gone, and a glorious, sybaritic weekend laid out in front of us like a wanton professionally-companionable person. Naturally, you wouldn’t want to head into such a liason without a full complement of news bytes from around the Cryptosphere,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto News for Wednesday, August 27
Today we’re featuring trolls, dark markets, drones, racists, banks, and idiots, among other fragrant denizens of The Cryptosphere. Enjoy? And make sure your shots are up to date before clicking. Black Market Cannabis Road Hacked, $100,000 in Bitcoin Lost (Coindesk)… Read More ›