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• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 18

  By raincoaster on December 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Aha! We knew he was working for someone! Well, kittens, now that we’ve cracked that case, let’s turn our eyes to other outrages and crimes against humanity, by which we mean everything from Assange’s Santa beard on down. Eggnog in… Read More ›

• TGIF Cocktail: the Whistleblower

  By raincoaster on December 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on drinkscoaster:
  Whistleblower Cocktail created by Jay Jones, photographed by Cathy Browne Cheers! We’ve a spotty track records when it comes to regular weekly features, but who can’t get behind this: A cocktail for Friday! This is the…

• Barrett Brown Sentencing Delayed Until Next Year

  By raincoaster on December 17, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Well, if you want to be technical it’s set for January 22. For now. The reason Barrett Brown’s sentencing is set for January 22, 2015 instead of December 16, 2014 as it was originally, is that on December 16 the… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday Chelsea

  By raincoaster on December 17, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Happy 27th Birthday to American whistleblower and hero (or traitor; opinions vary although this one is wrong) Chelsea Manning. It’s a birthday Manning celebrates in custody, as she has every birthday of the last four; she can anticipate many more,… Read More ›

• U.S. judge rules boy, 14, shouldn’t have been executed in 1944

  By raincoaster on December 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Yet another way the System discriminates against young black males. The US, Yemen, and one other country are the only ones that support capital punishment for minors.

• Tom’s take: the collapse of the Wildrose Party

  By raincoaster on December 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Rebel conservatism is on the decline in Canada just when it’s ascendant in the US. What went wrong with the Wildrose party?

• Movie Theater Stocks Rebound After Chains Jettison ‘The Interview’

  By raincoaster on December 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  You know, I used to have a business plan: find out what targets hackers were going to hit and short them. Then of course you buy back in at the low point and you make money at both ends of… Read More ›

• Barrett Brown of #Anonymous Sentenced Today: Watch the Full Arrest Video

  By raincoaster on December 16, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  And by “full” we mean with several minutes of post-arrest porn cut out of it. Yes, this is what happens when you get busted and manhandled by the Federal Bureau of Investigations: people in your chat session upload porn while… Read More ›

• #Anonymous Launches #OpPirateBay

  By raincoaster on December 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

    You don’t mess with the downloads, people. Where am I gonna get my Love Actually fix now? The Pirate Bay, once the most famous website in the file-sharing world, has been offline since December 10, when Swedish police conducted… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Monday, Dec 15

  By raincoaster on December 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Hello again, kittens! Did you miss me while I was on my gloriously luxurious, if fever-ridden, hiatus? Well, I still have the fever but I don’t have the time off anymore, so here we are. Naturally, when I came across… Read More ›

• Numbers: Schrödinger’s Cat

  By Curt on December 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  “I must be cruel, only to be kind.” – William Shakespeare For this is journalism: X was true, but Y wasn’t, Here a church, there a prison. Instead, Jackie’s in a box, A topological hex, That kills as often as… Read More ›

• Ho Ho Home Sick, Back Monday

  By raincoaster on December 11, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Your editor is off sick with the Death Flu of Extreme Deathiness. Normal (contemptuous) service will return on Monday. Please do not adjust your internets. Curt Hopkins’ Numbers column will appear as usual at 7am Vancouver time on Friday. In… Read More ›

• The CIA’s Feedback Loop

  By raincoaster on December 10, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on The Dish:
  Henry Farrell fears it will only get worse: [T]he CIA relies on relationships with a variety of people, and in particular with academics and people with semi-academic skills in a broader ecosystem of information. Many of…

• WATCH: Most dramatic protest videos of 2014

  By raincoaster on December 10, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  I know a shocking number of people in these videos, actually. How many do you know? How many of you are in them? This goes for the officers in the picture as well. Hands up!

• Cop Attacks Christian Minister, Sneaks Up Behind Her and Splits Her Head Open While She Helped Fallen Protester

  By raincoaster on December 9, 2014 • ( 5 )

  More from Berkeley. Attacking the press, attacking ministers who are ACTIVELY MINISTERING to the fallen…tell me, why did you go into law enforcement again? Was it to become this?

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