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• Facebook To Point Out To Your Idiot Friends That The Onion Is Not Real News

  By raincoaster on August 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Oh lord let it be true!

• The Terrorists Have Been Sighted

  By raincoaster on August 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Terrorists spotted protesting on the forrest moon of Endor. Emperor Palatine has deployed the National Guard in response…err Storm Troopers, we meant storm troopers…   Does this remind anyone else of Pogo? I’m detecting some new resonances in the War… Read More ›

• Will Julian Assange Leave the Ecuadorian Embassy Today?

  By raincoaster on August 18, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  He says he will actually walk out a free man “soon,” but not for the reason Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers claim, ill-health. His lawyer told RT he isn’t going anywhere. After two years snugly corralled in the Ecuadorian embassy in London,… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Top News Headlines in Cyber and Crypto for Today

  By raincoaster on August 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  With no hacker conference this weekend, the news roundup will be sparser than it has been lately; not so many companies rushing to patch holes featured at presentations, you see. Not so many presenters announcing news bombs like “1.4 billion… Read More ›

• Group of Anonymous hacktivists in Toronto protest treatment of asylum seeker Matt DeHart

  By raincoaster on August 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Activists, not hackers. Protesting outside an embassy is not an act of hacking.

• Crypto Currently: Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and 42coin

  By raincoaster on August 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s been one hell of a week in cryptocurrency. Bitcoin dove below $500, and Coindesk and many others are wondering why. Because so many other cryptocurrencies are based on the Bitcoin model and software, the crash had an impact across… Read More ›

• Rallies for imprisoned Anon Matt DeHart Scheduled This Weekend

  By raincoaster on August 15, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Matt DeHart, a former American drone pilot and soldier and past participant in Anonymous actions, is in prison in Canada, awaiting extradition to the US, which seeks him on child pornography charges, charges he and his family claim are a… Read More ›

• Missouri family of slain black teen says police are now trying to ‘assassinate’ their dead son’s character

  By raincoaster on August 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  This was predictable. Note that the officer who shot Mike Brown did not even know he was a suspect in a robbery. The entire encounter was just about jaywalking. Jaywalking.

• The Guy Who Kickstarted Potato Salad Wasn’t Just Trolling Us All

  By raincoaster on August 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Some good news from the man who will forever after be known as Potato Salad Guy.

• A Message From The #Ferguson Protesters To #Anonymous

  By raincoaster on August 15, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  It’s been a hit-or-miss week for Anonymous in Ferguson, Missouri; their #OpFerguson has enjoyed wide support, but in their attempts to identify the police officer who shot Mike Brown and dox the police chief they’ve struck wide of the mark,… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto Headlines

  By raincoaster on August 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  We made it to Friday, kittens! The way this week has been going I’d have lost a bet on that, for sure. But the week is ended, the weekend is hours away, and now we know that Darren Wilson killed… Read More ›

• Cyberpunk Party Thought o’ the Day: AndrewWK

  By raincoaster on August 14, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  If you’re not following party philosopher and rock star Andrew WK on Facebook and Twitter, you’re missing out on an authentically cyberpunk party dude. We aught to know about that.   Featured image by Collider

• Why #Ferguson Wasn’t Trending For Some Social Media Users Last Night

  By raincoaster on August 14, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The more you learn about how the tools work, the better you can use them. One important thing not mentioned here is that rts do not count towards trending status. Anonymous Tweetstorms typically caution people to copy/paste the tweet, snipping… Read More ›

• Oops: Twitter suspends hacker account after it outs the wrong cop in Ferguson crisis

  By raincoaster on August 14, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gigaom:
  Social media may be a powerful tool for citizen reporting, but it can also lead to dangerous situations when “the people” get the story wrong. That’s what happened when a Twitter account associated with the hacker collective Anonymous published the name…

• Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber Headlines for Today

  By raincoaster on August 14, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Now this is democracy in action! Foreign Policy wants YOU YES YOU to Name! That! Op! From their Gordon Lubold’s daily email roundup: Name that op! Yesterday we noted that the current U.S. military airstrike mission over northern Iraq did… Read More ›

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