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• SENTRY EAGLE: NSA’s “Core Secrets” Re: Covert Activities Inside Companies; Access Sensitive Data, Compromise Networks, Subvert Encryption

  By raincoaster on October 17, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Meet Sentry Eagle, the NSA program to spy inside your encryption.

• Communication, Identity, and the Origin of Information by Heather Marsh

  By raincoaster on October 16, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  This is a reprint of Our Right to Communicate by Heather Marsh, which first appeared April 16, 2013. Marsh is our favorite living political philospher (Zizek is of course a stand up comedian) and favorite ex-WikiLeaker. And some day we’ll… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News for October 16

  By raincoaster on October 16, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

    Happy Thursday, kittens! Time to plug in and light up your life with all the top news from around the web. We’re working on weaning ourselves off of paywall sites, but FP is hard to give up. Feel my… Read More ›

• Victims Of ‘Ninja’ Attack Say Polygamous Women Were Targeting Witness In Rape Trial

  By raincoaster on October 15, 2014 • ( 1 )

  Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
  There are some things that make Utah unique—like floating in the Great Salt Lake, or setting a new land speed record at Bonneville, or maybe just getting attacked in your own home by a pair of…

• Pitch Different: a Rejection from Bond, James Bond

  By raincoaster on October 15, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

    Oh dear god, this is glorious. T’is fake, but t’is glorious. I’d still give Steve Jobs a yes and Sean Connery a no, but this is glorious.   via EsquireUK on Facebook. h/t Percy Perkins

• Team System Dz goes on hacking spree

  By raincoaster on October 14, 2014 • ( 19 )

  

  UPDATED TO ADD: Get the latest on Team System DZ here. And gee thanks, YouKnowWhoYouAreMajorUKNewspaper, for reading our articles and not linking to them. Well, somebody’s on a roll. Much to the chagrin of over 200 victims around the world, including… Read More ›

• Apple and Facebook Now Pay For Women To Freeze Their Eggs So They Never Have to Stop Working

  By raincoaster on October 14, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Help me out here. Was it 1984, or was it Brave New World? I can’t remember which of the two this is from…

• Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

  By raincoaster on October 14, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Here are a few facts about Ada Lovelace, whose day is today. No, it is not a stat/bank holiday, unfortunately, although if we lived in a just world sysadmins would have the day off at the very least. Ada Lovelace… Read More ›

• Review: Hot Art: Chasing thieves and detectives through the secret world of stolen art

  By raincoaster on October 14, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  What do you mean? It is TOO hacking-related. Wait till you learn how great art is used to launder drug money, how it’s exchanged for illegal weapons, how it’s sanitized as it travels up the chain from B&E artiste to… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Post-Canadian Thanksgiving Cyber and Crypto News

  By raincoaster on October 14, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Did you enjoy your long weekend and turkey poutine, kittens? What do you mean you didn’t have either? WHAT KIND OF GODFORSAKEN BACKWATER DO YOU INHABIT, where they don’t celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving with turkey poutine and long weekends and fights… Read More ›

• Dorian Nakamoto Is Suing Newsweek

  By raincoaster on October 13, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Well, this was predictable, wasn’t it? And somewhere, the actual Satoshi is still presumably negotiating with the guy who hacked his wallet.

• Following In The Footsteps To Freedom

  By raincoaster on October 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on The Dish:
  Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales retraced the steps of fleeing slaves along the Underground Railroad for her project Through Darkness to Light: Finding that there were few visual records of the secret stations along the escape route, she herself…

• How The CIA Got Away With Murdering Revolutionary Che Guevara

  By raincoaster on October 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Well, that’s sorta their job. People would be hard-pressed to list the other jobs the CIA has and successfully carries out. That includes intelligence gathering when judged by whether the government ACTS on that intelligence.

• October 10, 2014 – 2 years ago …I

  By raincoaster on October 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Carol Todd's Snowflakes:
  Dear Amanda Two years ago tonight we lost a beautiful angel in this world. That was you.  As you had the thoughts in your head that your pain was too much to bear,…

• Journalism’s biggest competitors are things that don’t even look like journalism

  By raincoaster on October 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gigaom:
  Ever since the web was invented, newspapers and other media entities have had to continually expand their view of who their competition is: in the good old days it was other newspapers, and then TV, and…

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