The Cluetrain Manifesto is one of the fundamental documents of the internet, whether you like it or not; that’s a contentious statement because the Cluetrain Manifesto is about selling things. It’s a marketing manifesto, not a political one, and thus… Read More ›
Jeremy Hammond, the AntiSec anarchist activist and hacker who liberated the Global Intelligence Files ie about 5 million private emails, passwords, and more, from private intelligence contractor Stratfor and handed them over to WikiLeaks via a series of cloak and… Read More ›
This post is long, long overdue: in fact, I should have started this website with this post. This is the original Hacker Manifesto by The Mentor, a member of the Legion of Doom hacker crew. It was first published 29… Read More ›
Soooo much better than the (sexist, condescending) Mattel version; Feminist Hacker Barbie is the Barbie of our time. Here, our icon leads us through a quick, but easy to follow, introduction to the basic principles and uses of encryption, as… Read More ›
Around noon Wednesday, publication day of the latest weekly issue, two three armed and masked men dressed all in black walked into the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire with Kalashnikovs. Twelve people are confirmed dead,… Read More ›
So it is with a hopeful heart and a Godzilla haiku with which we say goodbye to 2014 and hello to whatever tinfoil-reinforcing insanity 2015 will bring. Our first year has been a good one, overall. While we missed our… Read More ›
This article by ro0ted is a follow-up to his post of yesterday on the best secure VPN. And yes, it’s well above the pay grade of most of our readers (and staff) but this is a true hacker’s approach. We… Read More ›
Let’s take a hypothetical: say, you’re a self-proclaimed whistleblower and security conference attendee with a Twitter account, a highly-strung nature, and roughly 300 followers. We’ve all been at those conferences. We know what they’re like. Maybe you’re a little bored;… Read More ›
Paths of Hate is a stunning animated film by Polish filmmaker Damian Nenow. It was shortlisted for an Oscar nomination in 2010, and won Best of Show at SIGGRAPH in 2011. The film explores the dehumanizing power of war, humanity’s… Read More ›
This is a guest post by ro0ted, founder of the hacker crew of the same name. It is reposted with permission and slight editing for clarity from a Twitlonger of yesterday. We reprint this not in the expectation that you,… Read More ›
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 120,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at… Read More ›
We’ve featured They Live, a little gem of dystopian 80’s cinema, before, but our old copy got blown off YouTube with a nassssty, nasssty DMCA, so here’s a fresh new copy of Rowdy Roddy Piper’s greatest starring role. Could be… Read More ›
We’re off to celebrate the holidays and we’ll see you soon with a feature story that will do all kinds of un-Christmassy and nasty things to its subject. Assuming that’s not you, you will likely enjoy it! A long-delayed unmasking… Read More ›
Well, this was fun. Basically, I love podcasts because I don’t have to comb my hair; hell, sometimes I don’t even have to get out of my pajamas. For the John, Paul and Mic show, however, I had to be… Read More ›
https://freeanons.org/ This is a guest post stolen wholesale from the Guardian’s Comment Is Free (which does not pay contributors, so we don’t feel guilty in the least). Jeremy Hammond is currently serving ten years for his part in the Stratfor… Read More ›
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