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• Numbers: The Wolf from Pisgah

  By Curt on February 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  “Our dead never forget the beautiful world that gave them life.” – Chief Si’alh “I became a transparent eye­ball; I am nothing; I see all.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson I could not cross the river with The wolf I saw… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Connection News

  By raincoaster on February 9, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Happy Monday, kittens! It’s a whole new week to tackle, and we’re here to make sure that you do it absolutely chock-full of cyberwar and hacktivism news. Beverage in hand? Breakfast in belly? Very well, let’s begin. Canadians politely sue… Read More ›

• Film Friday: Carts of Darkness

  By raincoaster on February 6, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Oh, a Canadian documentary. A Canadian documentary about the underprivileged. A Canadian documentary about the underprivileged finding a source of joy that unites them and gives their lives meaning and purpose. Oh, how worthy. Fuck that. Watch this. That’s the… Read More ›

• Developer Saved Years Later by His Own Hardware

  By raincoaster on February 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  A great first-person tale of how hardware engineering saves lives every day. Thousands of people who otherwise would have died have instead been saved by these devices, now common in public facilities like schools and arenas. One very real way… Read More ›

• NSA Hacking Unit Remote Operations Center (ROC)

  By raincoaster on February 6, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Meet the ROC Team and wonder how many of our headlines here are due to their “great success in its CNE, CNA and CND operations.”

• Say “ahh” and let your smartphone check for Parkinson’s disease

  By raincoaster on February 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  We’re at the dawn of apps that can actively help you manage your health not just on a fitness-and-nutrition level, but on a diagnostic and treatment level as well. We’re going to see huge breakthroughs in the next five years,… Read More ›

• #Anonymous Takes a Bite Out of the Illegal Tiger Trade with #OpTigerStorm

  By raincoaster on February 6, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  On Thursday, February 5, OpFunKill, the anti-hunting branch of hacktivist group Anonymous, changed its stripes temporarily, becoming OpTigerStorm, and nearly swallowing the internet whole. Still trending… 5.5 hours. Sleeps. Tell me when it stops, or better still keep it trending… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Sad Toy Links

  By raincoaster on February 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Those poor stuffed toys appear to be having the same kind of week I’m having, but they don’t have a Macbook to serve as the fall guy. Maybe they can gang up on a Tamagotchi or something. I don’t know… Read More ›

• Review: The Martian, a Sci-Fi Novel Proving Duct Tape Really CAN Do Everything

  By Ani on February 2, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Previously published on Writing In My Head on December 29, 2014. You’re on a mission to Mars, and all your crewmates have left the planet, leaving you behind, because they think you’re dead. This is the premise of The Martian, probably one… Read More ›

• Crypto-Affirmations: William Gibson Edition

  By raincoaster on February 2, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Indisputable. Now that it’s no longer supported, Google Glass is about to become within the reach of those who couldn’t afford it previously…ah, the lifecycle of obsolescent technologies as class indicator…  

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Hacker News

  By raincoaster on February 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Monday, kittens! I know what you did last weekend: the same thing as millions of other people. You watched the Puppy Bowl Halftime Show with Katty Furry. Do we know our audience or what? I know, right? Here’s your first… Read More ›

• A forensic analysis as to why legal judgements against Barrett Brown & Jeremy Hammond should be overturned

  By raincoaster on January 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on UndercoverInfo:
  Publications that used or referred to information from Stratfor hack or analysis On January 22nd US journalist Barrett Brown will know whether he will receive up to 8.5 years imprisonment for what are basically minor offences he…

• Numbers: The Death of Alberto Nisman

  By Curt on January 30, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  “I depart for the great Maybe.” – François Rabelais  The day Alberto Nisman died Flowers broke his skull, His eyes like prisms bent the light And plenty burst from null. The single truth a life secures By simply being so Unravels… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Hacking the Gibson News

  By raincoaster on January 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Once again, TGIF kittens! We’ve had a week off thanks to a salmon burger of sketchy antecedents, and are happy, relieved, and about five pounds lighter as we swing into the saddle once again. Let us begin with a story…. Read More ›

• Canadian Resistance In The West: Chester Brown’s Louis Riel

  By Ani on January 26, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  This is the first review from our new Books Editor, Anabelle Bernard Fournier. Welcome our newest Cryptospherian, a freelance writer who hails from Victoria, British Columbia. Even though we think of ourselves as a relatively peaceful nation, there’s a lot… Read More ›

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