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• ‘We can’t protect public from cyber crimes’: RCMP boss

  By raincoaster on November 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  It is perhaps less than reassuring (or professional) when the RCMP Commissioner says that the only effective way to protect yourself from cybercrime is to “Stay off the internet.” Does he recommend you never leave your house to avoid being… Read More ›

• We Spent 72 Hours with weev and Fled to Bosnia

  By raincoaster on November 25, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  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 Nov 23

  By raincoaster on November 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Some bad news, kittens: it’s going to be Monday all day. Some good news: we have your links roundup, hot and ready and chewy. Brace thine gullet, you’ll need an iron stomach for some of these. On Encryption and Terrorists… Read More ›

• Fake Anonymous Group Profiting From #OpISIS And RT Is Helping

  By raincoaster on November 23, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  It’s an old trick: download somebody’s video, re-upload it to your own account, slap some ads on it, and spam it as wide as you can. Looks like some AnonImposters picked the wrong targets this time, when they stole Redcult’s… Read More ›

• Emma Kelly: The media did cover attacks on *insert country here*. You just weren’t reading it.

  By raincoaster on November 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  We’ve all seen Facebook, festooned since the Paris attacks with both legitimate grief for the victims of the attacks, and with the inevitable and regrettable guilt-shaming coming from those who believe that compassion is some kind of zero-sum game. This… Read More ›

• “Ghosts Of No Nation” #IntelGroup Interviews Former #GhostSec Member @WauchulaGhost

  By raincoaster on November 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  A nice complement to our earlier interview with GhostSec and Ghost Security Group. Now the Jester’s thrown himself into the middle of everything as well, blaming Anons for fighting ISIS while at the same time trying to take credit for… Read More ›

• Lauri Love Appeals for Letters of Support

  By raincoaster on November 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Alleged hacktivist Lauri Love faces an uncertain future. Attending University for his Master’s in Electrical Engineering, his studying time has to be juggled with his “checking in with the local police” time, as well as his “preparing for court appearances”… Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 20

  By raincoaster on November 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  TG to the IF, kittens! Another week draws to a close and then, in three days: CYBER MONDAY! Yes, it’s the cyberest day of the year, when every little boy and girl, and every grown man and woman, steals to… Read More ›

• Watch David Bowie’s Darkly Beautiful 10-Minute “Blackstar” Short Film

  By raincoaster on November 19, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Basically everything David Bowie does belongs here, he’s just so freakishly awesome, and his new short sci-fi film Blackstar is no exception. Rumours have been swirling about it for a year. Expectations are high for the man who is the… Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 19

  By raincoaster on November 19, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Anonymous vs ISIS, round whatever round it is now. FBI pays 15,000 snitches to tattle on those pesky vegans. New app lets you beat the crap out of Donald Trump for prizes. All this and more in our Thursday news… Read More ›

• Refugee tragedy — Faced with government apathy, volunteers from around the world step up to help

  By raincoaster on November 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Lest we forget: This is what refugees go through in order to start a new life abroad. Imagine how bad what they’re fleeing from must be. Source: Refugee tragedy — Faced with government apathy, volunteers from around the world step… Read More ›

• Cyber-Affirmation of the Day: The Grugq on FUD

  By raincoaster on November 18, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  The Paris attacks have been so convenient for so many people in high places. Given enough panic, they must think they can frighten people into accepting anything at all. Several men who know each other and live in a small… Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber & Crypto News for Nov 18

  By raincoaster on November 18, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Dude, you’re gonna need a bigger spell. Seriously, who among us thinks this is exactly the way the UN Security Council is run? Have you seen those decisions: a wonky 20-sided die had to be involved at some point. As… Read More ›

• Paris Attacks Reopen Crypto Wars

  By raincoaster on November 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Actually, for over a decade government officials have demanded secret backdoors and the keys to your encryption tools. And they will use every tool in the FUD toolbox to pry their way into your computers; to these people, the Paris… Read More ›

• See the Heartbreaking Portraits of Parisians in Mourning

  By raincoaster on November 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  As well as the dead, we need to remember the living. The experience of mourning can be a powerful binding agent, as well as a powerful healing one. “I photographed people’s faces, all were extremely expressive. All silent.” Source: See… Read More ›

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