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• Terrorism Works

  By raincoaster on January 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  This powerful article is re-posted with permission from Hamilton Nolan.  It originally appeared on Gawker. This is HamNo’s second article on the Cryptosphere. Terrorism persists because terrorism works. Terrorism works because we let it. It takes a great deal of… Read More ›

• Paintings by Group of Seven founder were buried in backyard for 30 years

  By raincoaster on January 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Ooooh, a Long Lost Art story. We love those. We don’t really believe any of them (particularly this one) but we love them all the same. Yeah, right, buried in the back yard for decades. Yep, pull the other one.

• Founder Of Consolidated Credit Counseling Services Reportedly Tied To Payday Lenders

  By raincoaster on January 13, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Not that this is a conflict of interest at all, but it’s the worst conflict of interest I think we’ve ever seen. As if payday loan clients weren’t already screwed, this guy will charge you to throw you into the… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News for Jan 13

  By raincoaster on January 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  PRAISE BE TO JUAN VALDEZ, there’s coffee in Cryptosphere Global HQ again! We hope you’ll forgive us, kittens, for our late links on this fine morn afternoon, but we really couldn’t get going until a passing drone took pity on… Read More ›

• The #CyberCaliphate vs US #CENTCOM

  By raincoaster on January 12, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  The latest skirmish in the Propaganda Wars has all the elements of farce, many of the elements of a mystery, and quite a few of the elements of FUD. Hey @BarackObama next time tell #CENTCOM that "Waterboarding" is a weak… Read More ›

• Cluetrain 2.0: The New Cluetrain Manifesto

  By raincoaster on January 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The Cluetrain Manifesto is one of the fundamental documents of the internet, whether you like it or not; that’s a contentious statement because the Cluetrain Manifesto is about selling things. It’s a marketing manifesto, not a political one, and thus… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Jan 12

  By raincoaster on January 12, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Good Monday, kittens! Hope you are able to see it through with real, caffeinated coffee, unlike your humble editor here. If the links get progressively less interesting, blame it on the decaf. ‘I AM NOT CHARLIE’: Leaked Newsroom E-mails Reveal… Read More ›

• How the Charlie Hebdo attack and manhunt unfolded day by day, city by city

  By raincoaster on January 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  An excellent guide to the Charlie Hebdo and related attacks in Paris from Quartz.

• Witness: Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam publicly flogged 50 times

  By raincoaster on January 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Only 950 more lashes to go in the sentence of blogger and citizen journalist Raif Badawi, who had called for liberalization of Saudi Arabia’s increasingly Draconian and repressive laws. Slate reports that the lashes are broken up in this way… Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Jan 9

  By raincoaster on January 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  TG to the IF, kittens! We made it through the first full week of 2015 and so far, so … so … so much like last year, actually. It gets better, right? It gets better! That’s what the Youtube videos… Read More ›

• #Anonymous wishes Jeremy Hammond Happy Birthday with Children’s Book Project

  By raincoaster on January 8, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Jeremy Hammond, the AntiSec anarchist activist and hacker who liberated the Global Intelligence Files ie about 5 million private emails, passwords, and more, from private intelligence contractor Stratfor and handed them over to WikiLeaks via a series of cloak and… Read More ›

• Jian Ghomeshi facing three new allegations of sexual assault: Crown

  By raincoaster on January 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Canada’s own Bill Cosby is going to spend the rest of his life dealing with these charges, and unless he finds a prison pen pal, will likely never marry, thus handing his mother the greatest disappointment a Persian mom can… Read More ›

• Parliament shooting hero Kevin Vickers will be next ambassador to Ireland

  By raincoaster on January 8, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  An excellent choice for a man who clearly knows how to use a cudgel when the chips are down.

• The Hacker Manifesto

  By raincoaster on January 8, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  This post is long, long overdue: in fact, I should have started this website with this post. This is the original Hacker Manifesto by The Mentor, a member of the Legion of Doom hacker crew. It was first published 29… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Jan 8

  By raincoaster on January 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  “Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today…. Read More ›

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