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• DOJ Defends Spurious Redactions, Questions Remain about Stellarwind, and Much More: FRINFORMSUM 9/11/2014

  By raincoaster on September 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog:
  George Hamilton briefly dated LBJ’s daughter, Lynda Bird. It didn’t pan out, to LBJ’s delight. A FOIA lawsuit over a decades-old FBI memo reveals not only the DOJ’s misuse of court…

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Headlines for September 11

  By raincoaster on September 11, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    Did you miss us? We did more than our part in the internet slowdown protests of 9/10 by slowing to a complete halt…for twenty hours, while our computer ran a virus scan. Redundancy: not always a bad thing. Must… Read More ›

• The Untold 9/11 Boat Lift Story

  By raincoaster on September 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Boating Safety Tips, Tricks & Thoughts from Captnmike:
  Evacuation of 500,000 people from Lower Manhattan on 9/11 by boat Following the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, a problem faced by many New Yorkers was…

• Search and rescue dogs: the unknown heroes of 9/11

  By raincoaster on September 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Fascinating stories of the guide dogs who worked on 9/11.

• Live-Blogging The Case For War

  By raincoaster on September 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on The Dish:
  9.51 pm. Here’s the best rationale I can think of for what the president has just announced. If we simply left ISIS alone, there’s a real danger that it could begin to organize in such…

• #WhyILeft and #WhyIStayed Are “Hashtag Activism” at Its Best

  By raincoaster on September 9, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  An excellent article about an excellent movement. Sometimes what’s typically dismissed as slacktivism can indeed change minds, and that leads to a change in society itself.

• There Are No Easy Solutions To San Francisco’s Housing Crisis

  By raincoaster on September 9, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  No easy solutions, but here’s one: drop the one family/one building model and facilitate other options which used to exist, like the boarding house, the decent residential hotel (Air bnb of the 19th century), dorms, and so on, all at… Read More ›

• Quiz: What Kind of CryptoCurrency Coverage Do You Like?

  By raincoaster on September 9, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Well, kittens, you may have noticed some changes Chez Cryptosphere; for the last two weeks we’ve suspended our Crypto Currently coverage, a daily roundup of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Altcoin prices. We have, for this, received not one single complaint…. Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for Tuesday, September 9

  By raincoaster on September 9, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s Tuesday, people, only Tuesday, but you’ll make it. I mean, it’s not so bad, is it, this week? Last supermoon of the summer, first snows up in Alberta, and your life could be a lot worse: you could be… Read More ›

• CIA tortured terror suspects ‘to point of death,’ U.S. Senate report will say: source

  By raincoaster on September 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s not just a little horseplay, as Christopher Hitchens had the courage to find out years ago. Torture is torture, and warterboarding is torture, and it turns the people who do it into torturers who don’t distinguish between psychological pressure… Read More ›

• DNA analysis of fourth victim’s shawl reveals Jack the Ripper was a Polish hairdresser gone mad

  By raincoaster on September 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  My money was always on the Queen’s doctor, actually. I AM DISAPPOINT!  

• Comcast weakens consumer security by injecting ads through its public hotspots

  By raincoaster on September 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Starbucks tried something similar in Vancouver, but it didn’t last long. You’re already IN the store, you’ve already BOUGHT the drink. Getting hammered with third-party ads as a condition of remaining in the store to check messages was just too… Read More ›

• Unknownsec Doxes Stormfront Capo, Attacks Site in #OpWBKKK

  By raincoaster on September 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  True to its promise of last week, the hacker crew known as Unknownsec has gone after allies of the KKK, taking the White Supremacist site Stormfront offline with a massive botnet attack Friday night and doxing the heck out of its leader,… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Headlines for Monday, September 8

  By raincoaster on September 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Monday! Time to crawl back into the web and start climbing for the top as if your retirement savings depended on it, which — ha ha ha! — psych! Nobody currently living will ever be able to retire! But you knew… Read More ›

• Teen Counterfeiter Blames Crime On “Too Much Freedom” From Mom

  By raincoaster on September 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  I can just picture the kid wearing an “I’m the Reason Mommy Drinks” shirt, and the Mom wearing an “I’m the Reason Junior Counterfeits” shirt.

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