Here are a few facts about Ada Lovelace, whose day is today. No, it is not a stat/bank holiday, unfortunately, although if we lived in a just world sysadmins would have the day off at the very least. Ada Lovelace… Read More ›
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Review: Hot Art: Chasing thieves and detectives through the secret world of stolen art
What do you mean? It is TOO hacking-related. Wait till you learn how great art is used to launder drug money, how it’s exchanged for illegal weapons, how it’s sanitized as it travels up the chain from B&E artiste to… Read More ›
Exclusive Matt DeHart coverage: Paul DeHart and Tor Ekeland Interviewed
Life is not easy for 30-year-old Matt DeHart. Just a few years ago he was doing well; as a trained Intelligence Analyst in the US Air National Guard he looked forward to a stable and glamorous career at the center of… Read More ›
Numbers: Some Thoughts on the Umbrella Revolution
The color of truth is gray.” – Andre Gide I remember Tiananmen. The end Was blood, and silence. I remember Tahrir Square, the broken bones that do not mend, And in Yangon, the monks who died at prayer. I saw… Read More ›
Operation Global Media Domination: The Sellout Situation
Well kittens, there’s light and no other word for it. Yesterday your humble editor had the great honour of turning down the first offer for The Cryptosphere. True, it was a merger rather than a buyout, but we’ve studied our… Read More ›
Tweet o’ the Day: Snowden, Stone, and Recursion
Wait for it, people. Just wait. Dear Oliver Stone, You are not allowed to complain when the Snowden script is leaked. — MysteryTVWritersAsst (@MysteryTVWrtrAs) October 9, 2014
Nymwars II: Facebook Welcomes Drag Queens, Bans weev. UPDATE: and he’s BACK!
Congratulations, Facebook! You finally acknowledged peoples’ right to be known by the names they choose. Last week you acceded to demands from the LGBT community and acknowledged that drag queens would be able to have personal profiles under their drag… Read More ›
AnonSec Hackers Tangodown Turkish e-Commerce Sites
AnonSec, the mysterious Kurdish Peshmerga-supporting hacker crew which has become the bane of Indonesian government webmasters (among others), and who claim to have hacked an NSA drone, has a new target. Tiny Turkish ecommerce sites. In a list posted to… Read More ›
#NASASocial brings bloggers on board!
Okay, it’s not exactly a free ride into orbit, but it’s the next best thing for civilians who aren’t as rich as Richard Branson; NASA has announced that it will be accepting applications to cover the launch of the new… Read More ›
Numbers: Lingua Nova
“Language has run riot in an age of mass communication. It must be reduced to its proper function – the expression of authentic content, rather than its concealment.” Martin Esslin If Anonymous is not a hacking gang, With a master… Read More ›
ABC Developing ‘MKUltra’ CIA Miniseries
Oh MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY this could be either very, very good (eg The Prisoner) or very, very bad (eg…well, most 70’s conspiracy tv). Either way, at least the first episode of this miniseries will be a must-watch.
Censorship Resistance and Decentralization Methods (I) by AnonyOdinn
This is the second contribution by old Cryptospherian AnonyOdinn; the first was Stop the Power; How to Do Business Without Banks on bank-free financial systems. We are very pleased to welcome back our old friend. This article was first posted… Read More ›
The Strange Case of the Glitter Girl Grifter
Okay, get this: A Toronto Socialite (I know, I know! Hilarious!) befriends an Alzheimer’s victim in Florida, scams her out of $2 million or so, uses it to fly in a private jet to TORONTO (I know, right? In a… Read More ›
“Hard to kill.” Julian Assange, interviewed on the CBC
This is a terrific interview of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange by the terrific interviewer Jian Ghomeshi of CBC’s Q. Naturally, the hook is that Assange’s new book, When Google Met WikiLeaks, is out and he’s drumming up some interest in the… Read More ›
Tweets o’ the Day: the #UmbrellaRevolution, Car FUD, False Flags at the MMM, Clippy’s a Jerk, and Monsters Under the Bed
It’s been an exceptional evening of tweets from around the world; too busy for us to have the time to inflate each of these into a standalone article, but not too busy for us to just plop them here for… Read More ›
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