This is an Opinion piece by a longtime participant in Anonymous, who wishes to be identified only as “an Anon.” We are pleased to present this meditation on media, minds, Anonymous, anonymity, social media and the hype cycle. With the… Read More ›
Month: June 2015
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for June 30
America gets the $10 bill it deserves! Pool party po-po emails a no-go…unless you cross their palms with silver. Unstoppable cyberspies that CANNOT BE UNPLUGGED! Cyberpunk lessons from South America of the 70’s. And more in hyperbolic yet shockingly true… Read More ›
Why did it take so long to ban revenge porn?
Originally posted on Fusion:
Holly Jacobs had reached a point of desperation when, in 2012, she fired off the e-mail that would set so very many things in motion. Jacobs’ ex-boyfriend had posted nude images of her online that —…
Image of the Day: Turkish Police vs Turkish Pride
As Turkish PM Erdogan continues attempting a tricky balancing act, pandering to both Islamic fundamentalists on the one hand and multinational corporations on the other, police cracked down on the nation’s Pride Parades. Although homosexuality is not illegal in Turkey,… Read More ›
Your Personal Information Is Probably Going To Be For Sale When The Company You Gave It To Is
Originally posted on Consumerist:
(Mr Seb) You’ve signed up for a dating site, and it has promised up and down not to sell your data for marketing purposes. One year in, so far so good. Except the site folds, and…
Video: John Oliver teases CNN for its cringeworthy ISIS dildo flag snafu
CNN has long since become the thing it was created to replace. The question now is, what will replace CNN?
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for June 29
Welcome to your work week, kittens! There’s always breaking news on the cyberwar/hacktivism front(s) so we won’t delay. Beverage acquired? Teeth brushed? Hair gleaming? Batteries charged? ONWARD! The Gamer Who Could Save Grandpa (Ozy) A Bad Week for Baddies: the… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for June 26
Ah, Ratinox, the greatest criminal of the 25th Century. When we stumbled across this image on Twitter, we knew we’d found the proper featured image for our link roundup. James Bolivar diGriz aka The Stainless Steel Rat is indeed our… Read More ›
Operation Global Media Domination: The WikiLeaks Situation
WikiLeaks for the win! Thanks to (finally) checking in with our dashboard, we now know that the next time we want to take three days off, we should write about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange just before heading offline, because it… Read More ›
Coming downside of digital revolution – job loss, extreme inequality
Originally posted on Citizen Action Monitor:
“I see 15-20 years from now…the vast majority of jobs start disappearing,” says Stanford technology expert No 1378 Posted by fw, June 23, 2015 “In San Francisco – as elsewhere in the US – the…
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto #News for June 23
Ah, the internet. A crazy habitrail of tubes, geeks, hatred and kittehs. It’s truly the Place Your Mother Warned You About, and now you have to go there every day. For work. (and pr0n) You’ve… seen things you people wouldn’t… Read More ›
How a 16-year-old tricked the New York Times into reporting that Dylann Roof blogged about “My Little Pony”
Originally posted on Fusion:
If you read this New York Times article about Dylann Roof on Saturday afternoon, you may have learned the following about the suspected Charleston shooter’s online manifesto: Benjamin Wareing, a blogger in Britain, said the writings…
Julian Assange’s Three Years in Ecuador in Knightsbridge
KEEP FIGHTING, he says. He has no choice. For the last three years, since June 18, 2012, Julian Assange has been detained involuntarily in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London; he entered of his own free will, but that was before… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for June 21
Still hungover from Suits and Spooks (and Snitches?)? Us too, kittens. Now it’s time for healing, resting, and conserving our strength for CCC in August. Everyone’s least-favorite snitch will be there, so be sure to have the proper attire on… Read More ›
Inside a SHU Cell
Originally posted on Moorbey'z Blog:
The dimensions of the cells in the Special Housing Unit at FCC Forrest City in Arkansas, a low security facility in the Bureau of Prisons Southwest Region are approximately 6-foot-by-9. The walls are painted…
