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• #Anonymous Sweden hacks the #NSA, mentions of hack wiped from #Facebook, #LinkedIn

  By raincoaster on May 15, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  DⒶʀKᙡiNɢ ಠ_ರೃ , a Swede associated with Anonymous, has claimed a new, and rather relentless, hack of the US National Security Agency’s email server. Nothing so mundane as username/password combinations, the Pastebin of the hack lists the methodology and blow-by-blow… Read More ›

• Silicon Valley’s ‘Startup Castle’ is looking for roommates, and the requirements are completely bonkers

  By raincoaster on May 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Aren’t these the same recruiting standards as a lot of cults?

• Holy Death Cults, Batman! Meet Santa Muerte, Morbid Mexican Favourite of Cartels and Criminals

  By raincoaster on May 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Santa Muerte: Saint Death. Her titles are myriad:Lady Sebastienne, Lady of the Shadows, Lady of the Night, Lady of the Seven Powers, White Girl, Skinny Lady, Our Lady of the Holy Death. To her, you make offerings of cigarettes. The… Read More ›

• Y2K!!!1!

  By raincoaster on May 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Thank you, kittens! As of today your clickety-clicks have brought The Cryptosphere to 2000 Likes on Fedbook, 1724 Followers on Twitter (where we are, counterintuitively, @_cryptosphere), three or four retweets from WikiLeaks (swoon!), 260,000 views, mentions in Time, PC Week,… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for May 14

  By raincoaster on May 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s Thursday, kittens, all day, and there’s nothing we can do about it except shotgun another doppio and catch up on the news, in which we read that the app we just used to pay for our coffee has been… Read More ›

• First ‘grow-op on wheels’ in Alberta discovered

  By raincoaster on May 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Aren’t they always telling us the Future is Mobile?

• This dating app is using Facebook profiles to bust married cheaters

  By raincoaster on May 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The days of the private detective are numbered, it would seem. But what about the people in open relationships? Is the app sophisticated enough to distinguish between committment and exclusivity or, like Plenty Of Fish, does it want to boot… Read More ›

• Surveillance Reform Bill Clears House Only To Face Obstacles In Senate

  By raincoaster on May 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Come on, Senate. I hate you, I don’t trust you, but I KNOW you want to get re-elected, so pass the damn thing already. Note the EFF withdrew support for the Act, saying it’s flawed and unnecessary, since a recent… Read More ›

• How a shakeup at the DEA could get you legal ecstasy

  By raincoaster on May 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Can we even imagine a Puritan-free DEA policy? Possible changes ahead in the org chart mean potentially huge changes in society, as MDMA and THC may soon become more available by prescription and possibly without. THEN what happens to the… Read More ›

• “The Biggest Company You’ve Never Heard Of” Acquired By Major Military Contractor You’ve Heard Of

  By raincoaster on May 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
  Last week, one of the biggest names in military-intelligence contracting, SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) acquired “the biggest [military-intelligence] company you’ve never heard of,” Scitor, for $790 million. That quote about Scitor was told by a…

• The Peshmerga Enter the Propaganda Video Wars

  By raincoaster on May 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Social media: it’s the latest front in war, whether it’s Congress claiming they’ll meme ISIS back to the Stone Age or the Kurdish fighting force called the Peshmerga taking to Vimeo to do some cheerleading for the boys (and girls!)… Read More ›

• Enforced Transparency 2—When Hacking Becomes Imperative

  By Raymond Johansen on May 13, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  JEREMY HAMMOND – the original enforcer Before Snowden, before the mainstreaming of Hacktivism, and before most of us even knew what private intelligence contractors where up to, one brave activist stepped up and blew the lid off a story so big it actually… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for May 13

  By raincoaster on May 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Hackers and psyops and malware, oh my! It’s an action-packed news roundup for this hump day, so grab a cup of java/decaf skim latte and get hustling. Here’s all the news you need to know and some that you don’t…. Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for May 12

  By raincoaster on May 12, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Happy Tuesday, kittens! We have a juicy link roundup for you today, thankfully bereft of police shootings, sparser of geopolitics, and richer in hacky hackers hacking Gibsons and DARPAbots and the like. Lucky for you we let our subscription to… Read More ›

• “Creep” shamed on Facebook was actually man taking selfie with Darth Vader

  By raincoaster on May 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Well, if the mother was REALLY interested in protecting her kids, she wouldn’t use a tv in a department store as a babysitter, would she? Vigilante justice gone wrong. A little more attention paid to one’s kids would have prevented… Read More ›

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