Tonight on AnonOps Radio, it’ll be Back to the Future time, as the hosts dedicate the entire show to fallen (arrested) colleague and former host, Adam Bennett, aka Lorax. Once the most popular radio host in Anonymous, with his own… Read More ›
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Set a Course for “Fabulous”: Sweden’s Innovative Singing Sailor Subsurface Defense System
This is a real thing, people. A. Real. Thing. Real gay. Sweden has a problem: somebody’s sending subs into their waters without permission, and all fingers point to Russia. The neutral Scandinavian country has a vast and resource-rich coastline in… Read More ›
#Anonymous Sweden hacks the #NSA, mentions of hack wiped from #Facebook, #LinkedIn
DⒶʀKᙡiNɢ ಠ_ರೃ , a Swede associated with Anonymous, has claimed a new, and rather relentless, hack of the US National Security Agency’s email server. Nothing so mundane as username/password combinations, the Pastebin of the hack lists the methodology and blow-by-blow… Read More ›
Holy Death Cults, Batman! Meet Santa Muerte, Morbid Mexican Favourite of Cartels and Criminals
Santa Muerte: Saint Death. Her titles are myriad:Lady Sebastienne, Lady of the Shadows, Lady of the Night, Lady of the Seven Powers, White Girl, Skinny Lady, Our Lady of the Holy Death. To her, you make offerings of cigarettes. The… Read More ›
Y2K!!!1!
Thank you, kittens! As of today your clickety-clicks have brought The Cryptosphere to 2000 Likes on Fedbook, 1724 Followers on Twitter (where we are, counterintuitively, @_cryptosphere), three or four retweets from WikiLeaks (swoon!), 260,000 views, mentions in Time, PC Week,… Read More ›
The Peshmerga Enter the Propaganda Video Wars
Social media: it’s the latest front in war, whether it’s Congress claiming they’ll meme ISIS back to the Stone Age or the Kurdish fighting force called the Peshmerga taking to Vimeo to do some cheerleading for the boys (and girls!)… Read More ›
Enforced Transparency 2—When Hacking Becomes Imperative
JEREMY HAMMOND – the original enforcer Before Snowden, before the mainstreaming of Hacktivism, and before most of us even knew what private intelligence contractors where up to, one brave activist stepped up and blew the lid off a story so big it actually… Read More ›
Beware The Invisible Acrobat Midgets: Chameleo Is Weird, In A Good Way
Sometimes my work as a book reviewer has me read things I wouldn’t necessarily pick out from a bookstore shelf. Take Chameleo: A Strange But True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, And Homeland Security for example. The title is curious,… Read More ›
“Your Data Will Never Be Compromised!” ORLY???
Norton Anti-Virus must be WAY more effective in Japan for some reason. The transcript: Subs by evasivemaneuver, (Twitter: @wine_pimp) People have always been praying for safety People have always struggled to safeguard their privacy Today the Gods have answered thy… Read More ›
Facepwn: Script Kiddies Beware
This is the second article from Tyler L. Jones for The Cryptosphere. In it, he dissects the source code for an alleged Facebook zero day vulnerability. Social engineering. It’s one of the most powerful tools in an attacker’s toolkit. It… Read More ›
On Omar Khadr and being Canadian since the summer of 2002
This article originally appeared on GeorgieBC, and is reprinted here with permission of the author, Heather Marsh, who is a semi-regular contributor to the Cryptosphere, and a leading activist on behalf of Omar Khadr, who has been a prisoner of one… Read More ›
RIP Grace Lee Whitney, aka Yeoman Janice Rand on Star Trek
Another icon of science fiction has left this space-time continuum, on a journey to the unknown. Grace Lee Whitney, however, did not think of it this way; she had long since become a born again Christian. She died May 1… Read More ›
#Bitcoin; Dispelling the Modern Myth of Money
This article comes to us from returning contributor Nozomi Hayase. It is her second for The Cryptosphere. Six years since the inception of Bitcoin, awareness of this stateless currency has grown exponentially. Even though consumer adoption has barely gotten off… Read More ›
A Compelling Adventure: Robert Young Pelton’s Raven
Raven, the first novel by international correspondent and travel/war/human catastrophe author Robert Young Pelton, is available exclusively from the author’s site as a downloadable ebook. Not knowing Robert Young Pelton as an author, I had no specific expectations around his… Read More ›
#Anonymous launches #OpBaltimore
It had to happen. Anonymous Stands With #Baltimore. | #OpBaltimore — OpBaltimoreOfficial (@AnonOpBaltimore) May 1, 2015 In what’s become a completely inevitable pattern, in response to the death of a young black man at the hands of the police, Anonymous… Read More ›
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