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• Exclusive Matt DeHart coverage: Paul DeHart and Tor Ekeland Interviewed

  By raincoaster on October 10, 2014 • ( 8 )

  

  Life is not easy for 30-year-old Matt DeHart. Just a few years ago he was doing well; as a trained Intelligence Analyst in the US Air National Guard he looked forward to a stable and glamorous career at the center of… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto Links for 10/10

  By raincoaster on October 10, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Good afternoon, kittens! We had a lovely morning doing CPR on our apparently-deceased laptop and then heartlessly arranging for a replacement, all without spending a dime. Not as easy as it looks, particularly before the first coffee of the day…. Read More ›

• Numbers: Some Thoughts on the Umbrella Revolution

  By Curt on October 10, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  The color of truth is gray.” – Andre Gide I remember Tiananmen. The end Was blood, and silence. I remember Tahrir Square, the broken bones that do not mend, And in Yangon, the monks who died at prayer. I saw… Read More ›

• Operation Global Media Domination: The Sellout Situation

  By raincoaster on October 9, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Well kittens, there’s light and no other word for it. Yesterday your humble editor had the great honour of turning down the first offer for The Cryptosphere. True, it was a merger rather than a buyout, but we’ve studied our… Read More ›

• Tweet o’ the Day: Snowden, Stone, and Recursion

  By raincoaster on October 9, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Wait for it, people. Just wait. Dear Oliver Stone, You are not allowed to complain when the Snowden script is leaked. — MysteryTVWritersAsst (@MysteryTVWrtrAs) October 9, 2014

• Rudy Giuliani to defend Activision in Manuel Noriega lawsuit

  By raincoaster on October 9, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  And now, for your moment of WTF, Manuel Noriega is suing game developers for making him a baddie in their video game. And Rudy Guiliani is defending the video company. It’s 90’s nostalgia time!

• FireChat is verifying users in Hong Kong, hoping to add trusted voices to its anonymous chat network

  By raincoaster on October 9, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Originally posted on Gigaom:
  Off-grid messaging app FireChat is giving its users the option of lifting their anonymity and verifying their identities for other users to see. The first 15 verified accounts popped up in FireChat feed and chatrooms this…

• ‘The cub of Baghdadi’: ISIS reports its youngest jihadist ‘got martyred’ in battle

  By raincoaster on October 9, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  This is tragic. ISIS is using child soldiers as young as ten, and one of them is reported dead. No just cause invites the death of children.

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 9

  By raincoaster on October 9, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Good morning, kittens! And how is your day progressing so far? Teeth brushed, hair (if any) combed, caffeine ingested? Excellent. You’re all ready for today’s newer, shorter, list of links. Because life is too small to link to paywalls, kittens…. Read More ›

• Nymwars II: Facebook Welcomes Drag Queens, Bans weev. UPDATE: and he’s BACK!

  By raincoaster on October 8, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

    Congratulations, Facebook! You finally acknowledged peoples’ right to be known by the names they choose. Last week you acceded to demands from the LGBT community and acknowledged that drag queens would be able to have personal profiles under their drag… Read More ›

• Thync Has Raised $13M To Change Your Mood With Ultrasound Waves (And Electricity)

  By raincoaster on October 8, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Why bother trying to manage your moods with problem-solving or coping skills when you can do it via a $13 million consumer electronics corporation? Eh?

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 08

  By raincoaster on October 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  And the headlines just keep on coming, kittens! While we were momentarily sidetracked with the buzz around the first-on-then-off tv series based on that Cusack classic Say Anything, the world turned, so did many special agents, and so here we… Read More ›

• AnonSec Hackers Tangodown Turkish e-Commerce Sites

  By raincoaster on October 8, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  AnonSec, the mysterious Kurdish Peshmerga-supporting hacker crew which has become the bane of Indonesian government webmasters (among others), and who claim to have hacked an NSA drone, has a new target. Tiny Turkish ecommerce sites. In a list posted to… Read More ›

• More Black people killed by police than were lynched during Jim Crow

  By raincoaster on October 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  An amazing statistic. Clearly it’s more important than ever to participate in our Police Shootings Index project (use the search box) and make sure that we have accurate statistics. We are in a new age of ethnic cleansing in North… Read More ›

• What possible reason can eBay have for standing by ultraconservative climate change deniers at ALEC?

  By raincoaster on October 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Pauvre Pierre! The former social enterprise thought leader is now activists’ favorite punching bag for his part in prosecuting Anonymous’ revered Paypal 14 and now for going along with eBay’s support of the ultra-right wing think tank ALEC staffed entirely,… Read More ›

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