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• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for July 14

  By raincoaster on July 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Numbers: Autocorrect

  By Curt on July 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The Internet will never be your friend, It isn’t now and won’t be at the end. It’s not a tool of which you are the master, It’s just a way to sell a little faster. No magic kingdom, this plutocracy,… Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto #News for July 10

  By raincoaster on July 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Remember Stanley Cohen: Sue Crabtree of FreeAnons on the Imprisoned and Overlooked #Anonymous Lawyer

  By raincoaster on July 9, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Today’s Op/Ed comes to us from Sue Crabtree of FreeAnons, who has just discovered that one of the best-loved lawyers (no that’s not a contradiction) in the Anonymous world has apparently been forgotten by those on whose behalf he has… Read More ›

• Interwebbed #Cyber and #Crypto #News for July 9

  By raincoaster on July 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Victoria Taylor Returns to #Reddit, Bids Redditors Farewell

  By raincoaster on July 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Will the Reddit news never cease? As the petition to ask CEO Ellen Pao to step down passes 200,000 signatures, the woman whose dismissal started the ruckus known as #TheDarkening or #RedditRevolt has returned to Reddit, if only to say… Read More ›

• Numbers: OBERGEFELL ET AL. vs. HODGES, DIRECTOR, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ET AL.

  By Curt on July 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The people whom we always clamber on, Who feel our grasping hands and get our calls, Whose smiles we pay for long before they’re gone And in whose light or dark we rise or fall, Are fools and preening idiots… Read More ›

• #Reddit Fires Santa! Secret Santa Creator Axed

  By raincoaster on July 3, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Reddit management strikes again! While the Reddit world (such as it is) was reeling from the abrupt firing of popular AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor, management snuck in some other “involuntary exits” including kickme444, the creator of the beloved, and justly… Read More ›

• Aaron Swartz: A Reminder

  By raincoaster on July 3, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Aaron Swartz was truly The Internet’s Own Boy. And they truly did kill him. Driven to suicide by the prospect of decades in prison for merely accessing thousands of protected academic journals in line with the “information wants to be… Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for July 3

  By raincoaster on July 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• #TheDarkening: #Reddit Loses Moderator, Its Shit, Leaks Private Mod Chat

  By raincoaster on July 3, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  When Internet’s Front Page, 32nd most popular website in the world,  and Conde Nast property Reddit is in an upheaval over moderators moderating (shutting down fat-shaming subreddits, for instance, although leaving r/coontown untouched), only one thing will distract it: Reddit… Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for July 2

  By raincoaster on July 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Robot kills worker at Volkswagen plant in Germany

  By raincoaster on July 2, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  It Has Begun. Who do you lay charges against when the murderer is a robot?

• Experts weigh in on recent spate of bomb threats on Canadian flights

  By raincoaster on July 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Or, it could be as simple as: a) Somebody really, really hates WestJet and b) it’s the Silly Season and c) somebody doesn’t quite understand the penalties for calling in false bomb threats, ie basically handing over the rest of… Read More ›

• Exclusive Interview: #Anonymous’ #OpCyberPrivacy Celebrates #AntiCanadaDay on #CanadaDay

  By raincoaster on July 1, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

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