Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
is this thing on? can you hear me now? Man, living in the future was supposed to include jet packs and flying cars, but instead all we got was terrorists who keep thinking of innovative ways to blow stuff up so we to take off our goddamn shoes at the airport. Oh, and we got…
Early one weekend morning in January 2014, Janet was sleeping fitfully in her parents’ home in Toronto. A junior studying elementary education at a nearby college, she had gone home for the weekend in a state of nervous collapse. For months, someone going by the name ‘‘Obnoxious’’ had been harassing her online. He had called…
How to destroy an American family The Straters’ lives have been devastated by relentless cyberattacks. And there’s nothing they can do about it. By Aaron Sankin and William Turton “Mom is dead, and they did it.” An emergency dispatcher hears this message just before 4am on a Thursday morning. It’s been rendered anonymous by a…
Anonymous, the anarchic online collective of hackers and trolls, has once again declared “war” on the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris. As of Tuesday, 129 are confirmed dead and more than 350 are wounded. According to Business Insider, a channel on the messaging app Telegram believed to be affiliated with ISIS sent out…
LONDON The Anonymous hackers collective is preparing to unleash waves of cyberattacks on Islamic State following the attacks in Paris last week that killed 129 people, it said in a video posted online. A man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask said the Islamic State militants who claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks were “vermin”…
Comcast is one of the most hated companies in America. What’s worse is that it can’t stop doing infuriating things. This week in Reasons Comcast Sucks, an apparent hack led about 200,000 customers accounts showing up for sale online. Comcast says it was not hacked. Rather, the company is “blaming the incident instead on unsuspecting…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The private email server running in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s home basement when she was secretary of state was connected to the Internet in ways that made it more vulnerable to hackers while using software that could have been exploited, according to data and documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Clinton’s server, which…
On Wednesday, a jury in Sacramento, California, found Matthew Keys, former social media editor at Reuters and an ex-employee of KTXL Fox 40, guilty of computer hacking under the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act. In 2010, Keys posted login credentials to the Tribune Company content management system (CMS) to a chatroom run by Anonymous, resulting…
Matthew Keys’ fate is out of his hands. Possibly for the next several decades. Keys, a self-made meteor who’d rocketed to significant heights in the social media news desk firmament, was arrested in March of 2013 in connection with a December 2010 hack of the LA Times website, a hack he’d actually reported for Reuters….
Matthew Keys, the Twitter power user who made a name for himself as the former deputy social media editor at Reuters, has been found guilty of three criminal counts in federal court. He faces 25 years in prison for facilitating the defacement of the LA Times’ website. http://gawker.com/reuters-fired-… Keys was indicted in 2013 after being…