Originally posted on Boating Safety Tips, Tricks & Thoughts from Captnmike:
Evacuation of 500,000 people from Lower Manhattan on 9/11 by boat Following the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, a problem faced by many New Yorkers was…
Cryptosphere
#WhyILeft and #WhyIStayed Are “Hashtag Activism” at Its Best
An excellent article about an excellent movement. Sometimes what’s typically dismissed as slacktivism can indeed change minds, and that leads to a change in society itself.
Quiz: What Kind of CryptoCurrency Coverage Do You Like?
Well, kittens, you may have noticed some changes Chez Cryptosphere; for the last two weeks we’ve suspended our Crypto Currently coverage, a daily roundup of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Altcoin prices. We have, for this, received not one single complaint…. Read More ›
DNA analysis of fourth victim’s shawl reveals Jack the Ripper was a Polish hairdresser gone mad
My money was always on the Queen’s doctor, actually. I AM DISAPPOINT!
Unknownsec Doxes Stormfront Capo, Attacks Site in #OpWBKKK
True to its promise of last week, the hacker crew known as Unknownsec has gone after allies of the KKK, taking the White Supremacist site Stormfront offline with a massive botnet attack Friday night and doxing the heck out of its leader,… Read More ›
Guest Post: ICANN Advisory on ClipboardSec by Griffin Boyce
Today’s post comes to us from hacker/privacy activist Griffin Boyce, and is a repost of a column on his own blog, which was inspired by spotting an egregious ClipboardSec violation, ironically in the BBC Horizon documentary on the Deep Web. I… Read More ›
Unknownsec announces #OpWBKKK against the Westboro Baptist Church and the Ku Klux Klan
UnknownSec, this week’s hot new crew on the block, isn’t wasting any time. Two days ago they took down Facebook more or less by accident, testing out a botnet they claim they didn’t think would be powerful enough to effect… Read More ›
Film Friday: Inside the Dark Web
Horizons: Inside the Dark Web is an hour-long interview-based BBC documentary explaining the composition and nature of the scarily-titled Dark Web, previously known as the Deep Web until fearmongers got ahold of it. It features many of the luminaries of… Read More ›
Facebook TANGODOWN: Exclusive Interview with @Unvealings of #Unknownsec
https://twitter.com/Cy63rp0isoN/status/507265728547147776 Well, as everyone in the known universe knows by now, Facebook was down yesterday for a period of time between 15 and 30 minutes, during which the world collectively lost its shit and dug out its dormant Twitter accounts… Read More ›
Pic o’ The Day: Golftank
Welcome to Wales, y’all. They take security on their golf courses very seriously, as you can see. While conclusion-jumpers may have assumed this is some kind of Ferguson-style overkill in response to the Independence Movement, it is instead simply basic… Read More ›
Call to Action: Help Us Track #Police Shootings
There is no publicly-accessible database of shootings by US police officers. Let those words sink in. While you’re at it, consider that the words “Law Enforcement Officer” and “Peace Officer” are meant to refer to the same thing. This thing…. Read More ›
The Drone Wars Have Begun: Meet Rambro
We’ve found the first super-warrior of the long-feared Drone Wars. He has taken his first victim. He is RAMBRO! After a youth spent calmly munching grass in the pastoral mountainside of New Zealand, as he turned towards adulthood something in… Read More ›
Film Friday: the Internet’s Own Boy
Aaron Swartz was indeed the Internet’s Own Boy. A Harvard Fellow and wunderkind, he was also co-creator of Reddit, RSS feeds (which underpin email newsletters and blog subscriptions), and Creative Commons licensing. He lived and breathed the concept that information… Read More ›
Guest Post: NSA Quits Spying on Americans Out of Disgust
We’re pleased as POG to present our latest guest post; this one is a satirical essay very much in the tradition of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Our featured writer is Peter Van Buren, author of Ghosts of Tom Joad:… Read More ›
#Anonymous calls #OpGCHQ tonight in UK
Attention, UK Spooks, Feds, and other governmental-type security professionals! Anonymous would like to let you know: it’s ON! The UK is one of the most survielled countries in the world in significant part because of GCHQ, an organization so… Read More ›
The Cryptosphere 