a collection of curious characters and interesting events
Joy Ann Reid managed to make a Brokeback Mountain out of a molehill. But this time she had help. As the world knows, Joy made some mean homophobic comments on her blog a decade ago. She apologized for those remarks back in December of 2017. That was fine, that was appropriate and any drama or scandal should have ended then.
Read moreAdrian Lamo went silent on Twitter on February 28th, today we learned that he passed away. Though Adrian was at one time an infamous hacker, he’s most well known for being involved in the arrest of Chelsea Manning. Though he got a lot of hate for this, was hated for this, Adrian did what he thought was right at the
Read moreThis IRC chat involving Nachash and Sanguinarious Rose (William Welna) is from many, many years ago. Way back when Sang and Girl Friday were an eCouple, before she dumped him and ended up with his hard drive with IRC logs like the one below. In this log, Nachash is aware that Sang has access to Social Security Numbers and Sang
Read moreThe largest brute force attack in years, if not in history, is currently underway. A brute force attack is when apps are used to guess passwords to the admin section of a website by trial and error. While this sounds like an impossible task, the speed of today’s computers combined with the sophistication of the applications being used help make
Read moreOnce upon a time Stranded Wind was Neal Rauhauser’s account name on Twitter and Daily Kos as well as a website promoting his business plans. Stranded Wind refers to wasted wind power that could be harnessed and used. In Neal’s case, he planned to use wind power to manufacture ammonia to be used as fertilizer and fuel. Of course his
Read moreThis is Sang’s official declaration of who he blocked on Twitter and why. As a Hacker who used to advertise his services on Twitter, Sang doesn’t tell you is that he asked the FBI if he could be an informant, was given an “audition”, but didn’t make the cut. His Sanguinarious Twitter account has since been suspended. Grand Exalted Troll ยท @Sanguinarious 16th
Read moreWikileaks has emails posted that show Italy’s Hacking Crew sold spyware to FSB Russia. FSB Russia is the Russian equivalent of the CIA and FBI. It’s also the main successor to the KGB. It’s in charge of security, counter intelligence, counter terrorism, and surveillance. The sales were in violation of European Union sanctions that forbid selling spyware to Russia. Those
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