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• The FOIA Request that Cost Agency Employee Jeffrey Scudder His Job Finally Results in CIA Posting Trove of Studies in Intelligence Articles

  By raincoaster on September 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog:
  Jeffrey Scudder shares his story about how his career unraveled. (Theresa Poulson/The Washington Post) In response to a hard-fought FOIA lawsuit brought by former agency employee and IT specialist, Jeffrey Scudder,…

• ‘Maybe we missed something’: Warren Commission insider publicly concedes that JFK assasination was likely a conspiracy

  By raincoaster on September 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  D’ja think??? Better late than never, I suppose.

• Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber #News for September 22

  By raincoaster on September 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Welcome back to the work week, kittens! The Cryptosphere is in recovery from the Cryptoflu, undoubtably a bioengineered virus deployed by a jealous competing website. At least, that’s what my PR tells me to say if the New York Times… Read More ›

• August 2014 Cyber Attacks Statistics

  By raincoaster on September 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Hackmageddon.com:
  It’s time to aggregate the stats of the August Cyber Attacks Timelines (Part I and Part II). As usual, let us start from the Daily Trend of Attacks, which shows quite a heterogeneous trend with…

• Palantir Technologies Data-Mining Products Pricelist (December 2013)

  By raincoaster on September 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  $141,015.42 FORTY TWO CENTS? Proof positive Palantir is not only evil, it’s cray.

• Face Of The Day

  By raincoaster on September 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on The Dish:
  A young man chants as Muslims gather for Friday prayers on the street outside the Mevlana Moschee mosque on a nation-wide action day to protest against the Islamic State (IS) on September 19, 2014 in…

• Bitcoin Slips Back Under $400

  By raincoaster on September 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Good thing I put all my dosh in magic beans!

• Facebook Releases New Data About National Security Requests

  By raincoaster on September 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Thanks, Yahoo, for starting this conversation. Words I never thought I would say, for sure. The short form here is: Facebook admits that all the information they gave you before about how limited the government’s reach was…is bullshit. “We Continue… Read More ›

• Welcome Home w0rmer! Higinio Ochoa III is Released

  By raincoaster on September 17, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Anons and hacktivists rejoice! Higinio Ochoa III, aka w0rmer of C4bin Cr3w, is a free man. Well, free-ish. Having served nearly 25 months of his 27 months sentence for unauthorized access of protected computers, he was released yesterday to his family. It’s… Read More ›

• IPFS Is A Global, Versioned, Peer-to-Peer Filesystem

  By raincoaster on September 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
  The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing de- vices with the same system of files. In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS…

• Review: Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Digital Underground

  By raincoaster on September 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground is the story of a morally ambiguous protagonist who was never, not for one second, morally ambiguous in his own mind. The story of a man who stole tens of… Read More ›

• Group Makes Debt Disappear, Pays $3.9M Toward For-Profit Students’ Outstanding Private Loans

  By raincoaster on September 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  A group that used to specialize in paying off medical debt has now expanded into the student debt field, paying off the debts of delinquent yet hardworking students while actually making money. Now THAT is what we call a radical… Read More ›

• Quote For The Day II

  By raincoaster on September 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on The Dish:
  “For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led…

• Word of the Day: “Deconflicting”

  By raincoaster on September 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  John Kerry swears the US is not going to cooperate with the Assad regime in Syria against ISIS. No way. Not a chance. The US is simply going to “deconflict.” Which sounds great, the same way “truthiness” does. When reporters… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News (yes I hashtagged it, sue me!) for September 17

  By raincoaster on September 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Well kittens, it’s Hump Day and we hope you’re humping along just fine this week. If not, we hope this gif offers you solace and inspiration, much like the Julian Assange post from yesterday. Here are some news stories to… Read More ›

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