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• Guest Post: ICANN Advisory on ClipboardSec by Griffin Boyce

  By raincoaster on September 5, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Today’s post comes to us from hacker/privacy activist Griffin Boyce, and is a repost of a column on his own blog, which was inspired by spotting an egregious ClipboardSec violation, ironically in the BBC Horizon documentary on the Deep Web. I… Read More ›

• Why is Google sending insecure browsers back in time?

  By raincoaster on September 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Well, heck, everyone loves the ’90’s, amirite?

• Unknownsec announces #OpWBKKK against the Westboro Baptist Church and the Ku Klux Klan

  By raincoaster on September 5, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  UnknownSec, this week’s hot new crew on the block, isn’t wasting any time. Two days ago they took down Facebook more or less by accident, testing out a botnet they claim they didn’t think would be powerful enough to effect… Read More ›

• Film Friday: Inside the Dark Web

  By raincoaster on September 5, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Horizons: Inside the Dark Web is an hour-long interview-based BBC documentary explaining the composition and nature of the scarily-titled Dark Web, previously known as the Deep Web until fearmongers got ahold of it. It features many of the luminaries of… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto Headlines for Friday, August 5

  By raincoaster on September 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Welcome to Friday, kittens! We made it! Neither hacking attempts, nor lame-o hate mail, nor the NSA, GCHQ, or Royal Canuckian Mounted Police could stop us this first week of September. Having luxuriated in probably the first Labour Day I’ve… Read More ›

• Our Fearless Freelancers

  By raincoaster on September 4, 2014 • ( 2 )

  Originally posted on The Dish:
  by Jonah Shepp Among the many pieces written in memory of Steven Sotloff since the news of his death broke on Monday, a few of them struck a particular chord with me, touching on the dangerous, precarious,…

• Facebook TANGODOWN: Exclusive Interview with @Unvealings of #Unknownsec

  By raincoaster on September 4, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  https://twitter.com/Cy63rp0isoN/status/507265728547147776 Well, as everyone in the known universe knows by now, Facebook was down yesterday for a period of time between 15 and 30 minutes, during which the world collectively lost its shit and dug out its dormant Twitter accounts… Read More ›

• Pic o’ The Day: Golftank

  By raincoaster on September 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Welcome to Wales, y’all. They take security on their golf courses very seriously, as you can see. While conclusion-jumpers may have assumed this is some kind of Ferguson-style overkill in response to the Independence Movement, it is instead simply basic… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber Headlines for August 4

  By raincoaster on September 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Apologies for Wednesday’s missing link roundup; it has been run to Earth and put in the stockade until it learns the benefits of promptness. The elision was occasioned by a spectacularly amateurish hacking attempt on our site and associated Gmail,… Read More ›

• Police force warns of unexpected frosh week costs: ‘Forcing a pet to smoke marihuana — $5000, jail, or both’

  By raincoaster on September 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Golly, I hadn’t thought of HALF of these things. Now that the York Regional Police has come out with this handy-dandy list, I’m going to print up a hundred copies to stick under my neighbors’ doors when they get out… Read More ›

• Call to Action: Help Us Track #Police Shootings

  By raincoaster on September 3, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  There is no publicly-accessible database of shootings by US police officers. Let those words sink in. While you’re at it, consider that the words “Law Enforcement Officer” and “Peace Officer” are meant to refer to the same thing. This thing…. Read More ›

• United States Counterterrorism Chief Says Islamic State Is Not Planning an Attack on the U.S.

  By raincoaster on September 3, 2014 • ( 2 )

  Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
  The United States’ senior counterterrorism official said on Wednesday that there is “no credible information” that the militants of the Islamic State, who have reigned terror on Iraq and Syria, are planning to attack the U.S.…

• Secure Communities has led to ‘no meaningful reductions’ in crime

  By raincoaster on September 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  A startling result in this study. Deporting immigrants with criminal convictions is a high-profile, crowd-pleasing move, but it has, apparently, no real payoff other than placating nervous taxpayers. Will they remember come voting time, though?

• The Drone Wars Have Begun: Meet Rambro

  By raincoaster on September 2, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  We’ve found the first super-warrior of the long-feared Drone Wars. He has taken his first victim. He is RAMBRO! After a youth spent calmly munching grass in the pastoral mountainside of New Zealand, as he turned towards adulthood something in… Read More ›

• Huobi’s new fixed-interest bitcoin investment product should have the hairs on your neck standing at attention

  By raincoaster on September 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  This is JUST what we need. A fixed-interest financial product ie BONDS based on Bitcoin, and managed by companies with no experience in the field. Well, now we know who will be the first to be slaughtered when Goldman Sachs… Read More ›

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