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#Cyberculture -Wikileaks more into dubious waters as it considers exposing verified Twitter users’ data…

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Wikileaks considers exposing verified Twitter users’ data The Social Software Weblog   WikiLeaks once claimed to stand for the people against the shadowy, truth-occluding governments of the world (primarily, the United States). But the last couple years saw the organization swerve into questionable territory as an Associated Press repo… Using real names online doesn’t improve behavior Boing … Read more

#Cyberculture Anonymous’ Barrett Brown is back! – “Inside ‘Methbot’: The massive Russian cybercrime operation stealing millions from advertisers….

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Anonymous’ Barrett Brown Is Free—and Ready to Pick New Fights Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg   After four years in prison, Anonymous’ rabblerousing information activist is back with a new plan to restart his radical muckraking. Inside ‘Methbot’: The massive Russian cybercrime operation stealing millions from advertisers Mashable! by Patrick Kulp   Security experts have uncovered … Read more

The day after the massive cyber attack. A roundup.

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This mesmerizing map shows what cyber attacks look like Mashable! by Nicole Gallucci The global cyber war is raging on, and this mesmerizing map shows just how serious it has become. Yesterday’s internet-destroying outages were caused by “amateurish” IoT malware  Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Some of the internet’s most popular, well-defended services — including Twitter — … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “The U.S. will no longer have the final say on internet domain names…

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Mozilla open-sourced its logo redesign, and here are the finalists  The Next Web by Natt Garun In June, Mozilla announced that it would be redesigning its logo with the help of the internet’s collaboration. Along the way, it asked its community members to provide feedback on every step, shaping the logo into what the Web believes … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: A #PokemonGo roundup…

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How Pokémon Go Conquered The World In A Week Sysomos Blog by Lance Concannon Once upon a time there was a video games company called Nintendo which was cherished by gamers for over twenty years. Sadly, in the era of smartphones and tablets, Nintendo struggled to keep up with the changing times and many gamers worried … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects…

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Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects The Intercept by Dan Froomkin In the wake of the Paris attack, intelligence officials and sympathizers upset by the Edward Snowden leaks and the spread of encrypted communications havetried to blame Snowden for the terrorists’ ability to keep their plans secret from law enforcement. Yet news emerging from … Read more

Literati roundup: “IFLA Publishes a Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment…

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IFLA Publishes a Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment At its 14 August 2015 meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, the IFLA Governing Board endorsed an IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment. The FAIFE Committee oversaw preparation of the Statement and benefitted from consultation with IFLA units and various Internet civil liberties advocacy … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Car information security is a complete wreck…

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Pirate Music Site Op Pleads Guilty, Faces Five Years in Prison TorrentFreak Over the past five years, Operation in Our Sites, the U.S. initiative tackling copyright-infringing websites, has produced several arrests and the seizure of thousands of domains.   Car information security is a complete wreck — here’s why  Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Sean Gallagher’s long, … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Most popular programming languages shift at Github

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Most popular programming languages shift at Github Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Driven by the web and Android, Javascript and Java reign. Ruby and C lose ground. PHP lumbers on, impervious. Somewhere in the distance, a Perl script barks mournfully. Wargames-style map shows ongoing internet attacks Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza The Norse Map is a Wargames-style … Read more

Literati roundup: “13 images that helped define the look of the electronic age…

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Gallery: 13 images that helped define the look of the electronic age  Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow A full-color, large-format exploration of the electronic age, INSIDE THE MACHINE explains the history of technology through over 150 images from magazines, industry pamphlets, and out-of-print books to showcase the powerful graphic and artistic representations of this burgeoning field. … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Another secular blogger murdered in Bangladesh… “Vice Staff Unionizes…

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“No Country For Secular Bloggers”: Niloy Neel is the Fourth Bangladeshi Blogger To Be Killed in 2015 Global Voices Online Murdered blogger Niloy Neel, Image by Reza Sumon. Copyright Demotix (7/8/2015) Fourth secular Bangladesh blogger hacked to death AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Gang armed with machetes kill blogger at his home in Dhaka in the fourth … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Wikipedia Sues NSA …” VPN Services that Take Your Anonymity Seriously…

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Wikipedia Sues NSA Over Dragnet Internet Surveillance  The Intercept by Cora Currier Wikipedia is suing the NSA over surveillance programs that involve tapping internet traffic en masse from communications infrastructure in the U.S. in order to search it for intelligence purposes. Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2015 Edition  TorrentFreak By now most Internet users are … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Massive raid to Dark Web…

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Why the World Needs Anonymous MIT Technology Review Anonymity may encourage antisocial behavior, such as trolling, but we can also identify a noble political imperative behind the mask. FBI Seizes Silk Road 2  Boing Boing by Ivan Hernandez   Global Internet Gumshoes Say They Broke the Super-Privacy Tool Tor  FP Passport by Elias Groll  / Huge raid shuts 400 ‘dark … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “10 Rising Social Networks…

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  10 Rising Social Networks You Should Explore Had enough of Facebook and Twitter? It may be time to switch up your go-to social network With the daily explosion of startups, there are plenty of new social media tools popping up. These newer platforms could be working on the next big thing, so you’ll want to keep an eye … Read more

“Information authoritarians vs. ?information anarchists?” A Cyberculture roundup…

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Information authoritarians vs. ?information anarchists?: the silent (cyber) war that affects us all NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden finally leaves Moscow airport Hacking attack on Tor allegedly linked to SAIC and NSA The IP address linked to the hacking of Tor bundle has been traced back to that of Science Applications International Corp (a company investigated … Read more