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• U.S. Army Techniques Publication 3-39.33: Civil Disturbances (April 2014)

  By raincoaster on August 21, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s always best to know what to expect. Here’s a US Army guide to handling civil uprisings; this can be interpreted as anything from a peaceful protest to full-on revolution. This is what the WELL-TRAINED people will do. Expect the… Read More ›

• #OpFerguson and #UGNazi in conversation: exclusive interviews

  By raincoaster on August 21, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  The Anonymous Justice Operation OpFerguson came together and gelled in the time Michael Brown’s body was still lying on the ground after his shooting at the hands of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Since that time the Twitter account has been one of… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for Thursday

  By raincoaster on August 21, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  We might as well make Ferguson its own column here, as half the daily links seem to be Fergified. Mind you, if they keep arresting the reporters, there will soon be less Ferguson news. Police Officer to Media in Ferguson:… Read More ›

• Bill of Rights is location restricted?

  By raincoaster on August 21, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on Millard Fillmore's Bathtub:
  MoveOn.org posted this photo on their Facebook page: First Amendment Area? I presume (the post doesn’t say) this is a photo from Ferguson, Missouri. My first thought was, “Do they have a 2nd…

• Chinese and Russian state media use Ferguson unrest to paint U.S. as land of inequality

  By raincoaster on August 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  HUH IMAGINE THAT! It’s almost as if they want to give the impression that the US is a deeply divided sectarian nation where income inequality and institutional racism have led the elite to think they can get away with turning… Read More ›

• Should Twitter and YouTube remove images of James Foley’s beheading, or do we have a right to see them?

  By raincoaster on August 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gigaom:
  Late Tuesday, the terrorist group known as ISIS released a video that appeared to show members of the group beheading freelance journalist James Foley, who was kidnapped almost two years ago while reporting in Iraq. As…

• The Return of UGNazi: Doxing the Governor of Missouri

  By raincoaster on August 20, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  They’re BACK! UGNazi was, in 2012 a seemingly-invincible hacking crew with heavy trollish leanings (as you can tell from the nomenclature and the icon) once made up of JoshTheGod, CosmoTheGod, and Mr0sama. Their attacks targeted organizations and government departments which… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Headlines for Crypto and Cyber News

  By raincoaster on August 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  What a tangled web we weave when first we attempt to weave in an unrelated Shakespeare quote to our morning link roundup. Today we’ve got more war, more Ferguson, but I repeat myself, duelling policing theories, and more. Quote of… Read More ›

• Crypto Currently: Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Pandacoin

  By raincoaster on August 19, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Well, thank god THAT’s over. It’s hard to say that stable cryptocurrency prices are sanity or not, but whatever it is, we has it. At least compared to yesterday. To celebrate the return of (in)sanity to the markets, we’re featuring… Read More ›

• Google’s Plan To Let Kids Have Accounts: Bad Idea Or Acknowledgement Of Reality?

  By raincoaster on August 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s not as if kids can’t figure out how to lie about their age. It’s great training for getting into night clubs!

• Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hacked

  By raincoaster on August 19, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has revealed that between 2010 and 2013 it has been hacked three times successfully, with 17 attempts in total. Oddly, while the story is given prominent play on the UK Huffington Post, a search of the… Read More ›

• The CIA Misapplies FOIA Exemptions to Continue its Covert Attack on Mandatory Declassification Review. And Why it Matters.

  By raincoaster on August 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog:
  …If you’re in the Security-Cleared Caste, that is. Inscribed at CIA Headquarters. On Friday September 23, 2011, the Central Intelligence Agency snuck two pages into the Federal Register –without a notice…

• Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber Headlines for Tuesday

  By raincoaster on August 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Today’s links are all about war, war, cyberwar, protests, militarization, war, Bitcoin, and war. Make that latte a double; you’re gonna need it! The Americans are coming! The Americans are coming! To wipe out your pirate sites! (Torrentfreak) The Electronic… Read More ›

• Crypto Currently: Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and a digression on just what the hell is going on right now

  By raincoaster on August 18, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Well, short form: Nobody knows. Long form: Nobody knows but there are plenty of possible causes for the fact Bitcoin dropped a quarter of its value and fell through to the $400 benchmark. Everything tied to the Bitcoin math similarly… Read More ›

• More than 1,100 German authors protest Amazon’s treatment of book publisher Bonnier

  By raincoaster on August 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gigaom:
  While Amazon and Hachette’s contract battle drags on in the U.S., a similar fight is taking place in Germany between Amazon and book publisher Bonnier. Now 1,188 German, Austrian and Swiss authors have taken a cue…

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