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• Matt DeHart and More on the Darkweb Takedowns

  By raincoaster on November 12, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  As most of the internet knows by now, 27 sites (originally reported to be the mindblowingly huge “over 400”) were taken offline and 17 people arrested by the FBI last week in what is known as Op Onymous. The sites were… Read More ›

• Future’s Past: How the Theban Mapping Project’s Effort to Document Ancient Egypt Has Also Documented the Contemporary History of Technological Innovation

  By Curt on November 12, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  The dominant picture of an archaeologist is that of a khaki-clad explorer, probably “intrepid,” outlined in the setting sun of an exotic local, patiently brushing the dust away from a pot partially embedded in a grid of stakes and strings, occasionally… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for November 12

  By raincoaster on November 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Wednesday, kittens! Did you remember, remember, to take the time yesterday to remember what has been lost and what has been gained in battles throughout history, geography, religion and the Internet? Those who do not understand the past are… Read More ›

• Remembrance Day 2014

  By raincoaster on November 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  We’ll be taking today, Remembrance Day, off, to, yes, remember the sacrifices made by those who fought in the wars, whether cyber or IRL. It has been estimated that as much as 20% of Canada’s adult male population died in… Read More ›

• President Obama: 10 Reasons Why Speedy Internet Access Is a Right, Not a Product for Sale

  By raincoaster on November 10, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Internet is a right, not a privilege. In a world where cash is equated with free speech, a rare sane ruling from the White House.

• Anti-Pipeline Graffiti Raid Update: VPD Claiming $500,000 in Damages Not Including Graffiti

  By raincoaster on November 10, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Warrior Publications:
  No Pipelines graffiti in East Vancouver. by indyvan, Vancouver Media Coop, Nov 9, 2014 On June 3rd, 2014, Vancouver Police staged a “guns-drawn” raid against a house of known indigenous and anarchist opponents to the…

• Industrial Sabotage, Lumberjack Style!

  By raincoaster on November 10, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Well, it’s a truism well-known to journalists worldwide that, when you are in need of a story, ask a taxi driver. And so it proved on Saturday, when I took a cab and obtained the following tale of industrial espionage,… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News for November 10

  By raincoaster on November 10, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Monday, kittens! Before you go on to our daily link roundup, be sure and check out our exclusive interview with “The Forgotten Anon” Jon Cowden; it’s illuminating on the roadblocks that even the most prepared hacktivist faces after prison…. Read More ›

• Jon Cowden, the Forgotten #Anonymous: an interview

  By raincoaster on November 7, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  Jon Cowden is the most famous Anonymous member of which nobody has heard.   #RetiredAnonymous Gave my freedom to help others obtain theirs. #ITWASWORTHIT #OpFreePalestine #OpSlayDay #OperationIranAide Not in Khaki Jumpsuits anymore He was sentenced in March of last year… Read More ›

• No second chance for Stephen Glass: The long, strange downfall of a journalistic wunderkind

  By raincoaster on November 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Ah, the strange case of Stephen Glass: competent writer, gifted fabulist, condemned liar. Of course he’d embark on a journey to become a lawyer after being (rightfully) driven out of journalism by a pitchfork and indignation wielding mob. Now even… Read More ›

• When Does The First Amendment Prevent The Release Of Public Records? When It Involves Strippers

  By raincoaster on November 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  I don’t see what the big deal is. “Candi Stryper” and “Kitten Sweet” are their real names, right? RIGHT?

• Declassified Documents Confirm GCHQ/MI5/MI6 Free to Eavesdrop on Communications of Lawyers/Journalists

  By raincoaster on November 7, 2014 • ( 2 )

  Congratulations, UK domestic spies! You officially have the same powers as American ones have had for years. WikiLeaks told us about that years ago. Snowden confirmed it. Clearly there will be a booming market for lawyers who are also priests… Read More ›

• Numbers: A heavy stone

  By Curt on November 7, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

   “What happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art that proceeded it. “ — T.S. Eliot  “Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben ist barbarisch.” — Theodor Adorno  … Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for November 7

  By raincoaster on November 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  TGIF, kittens! Just think, some day when the world is fair and just and your (space) ship has come in and we’re all working two hour days and farting around on Fark the rest of the time, we’ll all have… Read More ›

• AP decries FBI fabrication of news story

  By raincoaster on November 6, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on THE DEFINITIVE SOURCE:
  Responding to the news this week that the FBI had fabricated an Associated Press story during a 2007 investigation, the AP expressed serious concern to Attorney General Eric Holder. “In carrying out this scheme,…

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