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• Dissent By Design

  By raincoaster on January 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on The Dish:
  Cassie Packard reviews Disobedient Objects, an exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum devoted to examining “the powerful role of objects in movements for social change”: The disobedient objects in the exhibition range from the more…

• Anonymous’ #OpSafeWinterMTL Takes Up the Cause of the Homeless Against Montreal Police

  By raincoaster on January 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The Internet Hate Machine picks its IRL battles carefully: Scientology. Wall Street. Arab Spring. And, beloved by Anons worldwide, the globe-spanning soup-kitchen-providing, clothing-and-supplies-donating, homeless-supporting OpSafeWinter. OpSafeWinter has been so powerful that in the slums of Sao Paulo, the infamous BlackBloc… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for Jan 19

  By raincoaster on January 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Monday, kittens! It’s a good day, as long as you’re not a French Muslim extremist, a formerly-confidential informant, an indicted but not yet convicted hacker, or a Lizard Squaddie. Why? Well, those particular types of people are having, quite… Read More ›

• Crypto-Affirmations: Werner Herzog’s Guide to Life

  By raincoaster on January 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Brace yourself. This is weird, even for The Cryptosphere: legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog has released a book called Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin, and on the back cover he has outlined 24 points that… Read More ›

• Numbers: The Capital of Hell

  By Curt on January 16, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  “The only objects of practical reason are those of good and evil.” — Immanuel Kant How do pimps beseech and praise their god? In the sky, the temple doors are charred And all the cafes are ghosted with the dead…. Read More ›

• Survival Gear and the Old Man and the Sea

  By raincoaster on January 15, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Well now, that’s not exactly fair. I think I’m the same age as him. But thrill as you watch intrepid Canadian reporter and host Rick Mercer, along with his faithful sidekick Doctor Popsicle, facing down the denizens of the deep and shrugging… Read More ›

• Blackhat: a Hacker’s Movie Review

  By raincoaster on January 15, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Today’s review of Michael Mann’s “Blackhat” is by well-known activist and actor/producer Joe Fionda. Welcome to the Cryptosphere, Joe; I knew I’d break you eventually! “Blackhat” is an international hacker caper directed by Michael Mann, centering around a federally convicted hacker… Read More ›

• Teaching Decentralization in a Centralized Era

  By raincoaster on January 15, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  This article was written by Manuel Beltrán, Luis Rodil-Fernández and Pawel Pokutycki of the Alternative Learning Tank in the Netherlands; it originally appeared on their site. We are grateful to them and to ALT for allowing us to share it with our readers. In… Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Jan 15

  By raincoaster on January 15, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Welcome to Thursday; it’s going to be this way all day. All. Damn. Day. It’s okay; we’ll get through it together. Just you, me, and this bottomless vat of caffeine and smart drugs. Hey, why did people who used smart… Read More ›

• How ‘Simpsons’ tribute to Charlie Hebdo came together

  By raincoaster on January 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Is there a single globally resonant social trend that the Simpsons haven’t covered?

• Myst Linking Book

  By raincoaster on January 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Just a glorious piece of hardware porn for us old-skool types. Remember Myst? I never got off that goddam island, but I didn’t mind too much, because it was so, so, so pretty.

• #Anonymous Issues Terrifying Electronic Armageddon Video: Are You Paranoid Enough?

  By raincoaster on January 14, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  No. No, you are not. The month-old AnonSec 101/SteelBAileY account has uploaded a new 11-minute video to YouTube, focused on how-to’s for Operational Security (OpSec) at protests, in “civilian” life, and online. And it is terrifying. UPDATE: Thanks to commenter… Read More ›

• Crypto-Affirmations: The Quotidian Quest

  By raincoaster on January 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  There’s two kindsa people in this world, the day people and the night people. and it’s the night people’s job to get the day people’s money. Ray Wylie Hubbard   Featured Image People are curious by Janis Lanka on Flickr… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Jan 14

  By raincoaster on January 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Good morning, kittens! The Cryptosphere is properly caffeinated, freshly showered, fed, watered, walked, and coming to you live from the complete opposite of a basement, so all is clearly right with the world.   Rats Can Be Smarter Than People… Read More ›

• CENTCOM Hints Blame Lies With “Lone Wolf” Attacker for Social Media Hack

  By raincoaster on January 13, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Today General Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of CENTCOM, posted to CENTCOM’s Facebook page a letter to CENTCOM members and supporters apologizing for the pro-ISIS Twitter and YouTube hack yesterday. The letter did not specifically assign blame or describe the… Read More ›

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