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

  By raincoaster on August 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Between the exciting news in WikiLeaks wear, playing whack-a-mole with trolls, and the ongoing saga in Ferguson, Missouri, it’s been a busy day chez Cryptosphere, and speaking of penniless hobos we got paid so we are off to drown our… Read More ›

• #OpFerguson Updates: Trolls, Honeypots, Leaks, and Crowdsourcing Intel

  By raincoaster on August 13, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  UPDATE: aaaand just as we hit Publish, Anonymous has taken the Ferguson City website and the St Louis County website offline. Anonymous has been busy over the last day or so, working on OpFerguson, the operation designed to bring justice… Read More ›

• The WikiLeaks Army has Boots on the Ground

  By raincoaster on August 13, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  The day long feared by the Lords of the 1% is finally here. Julian Assange has an army. Or at least, he has the uniform. Or at least, he has the most important part, which is a snazzy pair of… Read More ›

• Now even Germany’s postal service has an encrypted messaging app

  By raincoaster on August 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gigaom:
  Last year’s NSA revelations sparked a great deal of interest in secure messaging apps, from Threema to Telegram to TextSecure, particularly in German-speaking countries where people and businesses are highly sensitive about surveillance. Now you can…

• Murder Suspect Asks Siri Where to Dump His Dead Roommate’s Body

  By raincoaster on August 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Thanks, Siri. Nice to know she watches as many old cop shows as I do. Too bad for him she’s such a crap accomplice (she always, ALWAYS talks).

• Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber Headlines for Today

  By raincoaster on August 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Well kittens, yesterday we went pretty heavy on Anonymous and #OpFerguson, so today unless something goes sideways we’ll give Fawkes and his folks some space and look at the rest of the interwebs for our news. Security for Journalists, Part… Read More ›

• Crypto Currently: Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Uro (or, as I call it, Peecoin)

  By raincoaster on August 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Well, hell, with all the Anonymousity around here today, it’d be the perfect day to feature Anoncoin. Unfortunately, we were ahead of our time and already did that a week ago. So we’re going with random today and have found… Read More ›

• Rise of the machines: Up to 8.5% of Twitter users are robots

  By raincoaster on August 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  5% of twitter usesr are spam? That’s pretty low. Pretty sure it’s a lot higher than that.

• Big Brother, Little Sister: #OpFerguson in Images

  By raincoaster on August 12, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Since the Saturday shooting of unarmed teenager Mike Brown at the hands of an as-yet-unnamed Ferguson police officer, operatives within Anonymous have been working to bring what they see as justice to Ferguson and its citizens. And, not incidentally, its… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines Worldwide

  By raincoaster on August 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

    Yesterday, thanks to interviews and articles about OpFerguson, we had our second-busiest day and entirely forgot to do our cryptocurrency price roundup; in return, we promise to take a look at the effect of Anonymous operations on cryptocurrency prices…. Read More ›

• #OpFerguson Speaks! an exclusive interview

  By raincoaster on August 11, 2014 • ( 19 )

  

  OpFerguson is the Anonymous operation which sprang into being over the last three days, in response to the Saturday police shooting of unarmed teen Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. So far Anonymous has taken down the City website for several… Read More ›

• A Brief History of Inappropriately Invoking George Orwell

  By raincoaster on August 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Given society’s focus on controlling the People via pleasure rather than via pain, we await with pleasure the no doubt soon-to-come “brief history of inappropriately invoking Aldous Huxley.”

• Anonymous Hits Back at Ferguson Police with #OpFerguson

  By raincoaster on August 11, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  When the Ferguson, Missouri police fatally shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown (hands in the air when shot, according to witnesses), they did what Israel hadn’t been able to do in weeks: they took the focus of Anonymous off Gaza and… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto Stories for Your Monday

  By raincoaster on August 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  A mega-roundup from a mega-weekend! Black Hat is over, long live Defcon (at least till Monday, that is), and we’ll always have the hangovers to remember them by. Here’s a particularly-juicy roundup of stories; some long reads, some short, and… Read More ›

• Hack Back! A DIY Guide for Those Without the Patience to Wait for Whistleblowers

  By raincoaster on August 10, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Just what it says on the tin: A DIY guide for those who don’t want to wait for whisleblowers. This is The Real Thing, people, so leave your pearl-clutching at the door and get ready for shit to get real…. Read More ›

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