Documents obtained by Greenpeace show prominent opponent of climate change was funded by ExxonMobil, among others. According to a Greenpeace US investigation, Willie Soon has been heavily funded by coal and oil industry interests since 2001, receiving money from ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Insitute and Koch Industries along with Southern, one of the world’s largest [...]
If a group of young hackers are not ready to become full-fledged terrorists (some do, some don’t), they better stay underground. Or quit while they’re ahead. This rule doesn’t apply to governments nor international police organizations, obviously, who have a bigger margin of error. YVES BENNAÏM – Why LulzSec is important. But why it had [...]
LulzSec dumps what they claim is “final” release, with signoff statement: “50 Days of Lulz” – Boing Boing.
It breaks my heart that a project I did for fun, on the side, and out of pure love and dedication to the source material ended up costing me so much — emotionally and financially. For me, the chilling effect is palpably real. I’ve felt irrationally skittish about publishing almost anything since this happened. Link: [...]
Jon Stewart Rips Fox News for Editing His Chat with Chris Wallace Jon Stewart Rips Fox News for Editing His Chat with Chris Wallace.
Two of Color’s photo-sharing competitors, Instagram and PicPlz, exemplify the lean start-up ethos. They started with $500,000 and $350,000, respectively, and teams of just a few people. As they have introduced successful products and attracted users, they have slowly raised more money and hired engineers. Color, meanwhile, spent $350,000 to buy the Web address color.com, [...]
People want reliability, commitment, and encryption. Hacker News | New security issue at Dropbox.
Despite reports that it was at war with the loose online collective Anonymous, today hacker group LulzSec has announced it is to team up with the online community to begin “Operation Anti-Security”, a declaration which will see it attack any government or agency that “crosses their path”. LulzSec teams up with Anonymous for.
This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn’t released something publicly. We’re sitting on 200,000 Brink users right now that we never gave out. It might make you feel safe knowing we told you, so that Brink users may change their passwords. What if [...]
You have a hundred trillion of these guys in you right now. Before you were born, you had hardly any. Back then, you were floating in amniotic fluid, protected, sanitized. Bacteria kept their distance. Until you slipped down that birth canal, you were pretty much spic-and-span. Then came your birthday, and all of a sudden, [...]
Matt Cherette — Last night, CNN’s John King moderated the first Republican primary debate of the 2012 election season. High on theatrics, like King’s stupid "This or That" questions for each candidate, the debate had many critics. And as you’ll see in the above clip from tonight’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart wasn’t all that impressed [...]
You and your friends simultaneously leave posts on someone’s Facebook wall. Once you “reserve” a block of posts, change your profile pictures to a letter, spelling out anything you want. Let’s Letterbomb.
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