Bitcoins & The Future Of Online Currency

Bitcoins & The Future Of Online Currency

Bitcoins are not mere drug currency. Bitcoins are not failing. Okay? Are we clear about that? Good. The future of online commerce looks to rely less and less on the physical amount of money you have in your bank accounts and wallets and more on what you could call...
Opinion: Why we need Anonymous 2.0

Opinion: Why we need Anonymous 2.0

by Lisa Vaas on April 24, 2012 A few thoughts on the “hacktivist” group Anonymous that came out of Josh Corman and Brian “Jericho” Martin’s keynote at theSOURCE security conference in Boston last week: Hacktivist is a sloppy term. A small...
Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget

Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget

  Turn the handle and leave the past behind.Image: iStock/Robert Vautour The French poet Paul Valéry once said, “The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.”  In that spirit, consider a situation many of us will...
Bucky Balls Could Double Your Lifespan

Bucky Balls Could Double Your Lifespan

Buckminster fullerene molecules, the naturally occurring spheres made up of 60 carbon atoms, have long been suspected to have biological benefits. Now, a study that set out to establish if they were toxic when administered orally has proven quite the opposite—they...
Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us

Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us

Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens.  The Washington Post reported there are 3,984 federal, state and local organizations working on domestic counterterrorism.  Most collect information on people in the...
9/11: A Conspiracy Theory

9/11: A Conspiracy Theory

Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes. (Watch French, German, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese translations of this video.) TRANSCRIPT: On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man...
Twitter, the FBI, and You

Twitter, the FBI, and You

In the future, if you tweet out a photo of a hilarious, meme-tastic kitten, it might be best not to include terms like “white powder,” “dirty bomb,” or “Death to America.” Since late January, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has...
A Message from House of Anonymous

A Message from House of Anonymous

We are Anonymous, and we do not forgive. Forgiveness requires humility, humility requires dignity. We have neither. We are void of human restraints, such as self respect and common sense. All those who break this pact will be eliminated without hesitation. And by...
EXPOSED: Snopes Funding in Question

EXPOSED: Snopes Funding in Question

  Snopes receives funding from an undisclosed source. The source is undisclosed because Snopes refuses to disclose that source. The Democratic Alliance, a funding channel for uber-Leftist (Marxist) Billionaires (George Soros etc.), direct funds to an...
Conned 2012: Joseph Kony Is A CIA Contractor

Conned 2012: Joseph Kony Is A CIA Contractor

 According to former European MP, journalist, and author Richard Cottrell, the Lord Resistance Army is backed by the CIA and Mossad. The author of the blog aangirfan writes: “In Uganda, Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, ‘which...
An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System

An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System

Bitcoin is not inherently anonymous. It may be possible to conduct transactions is such a way so as to obscure your identity, but, in many cases, users and their transactions can be identified. We have performed an analysis of anonymity in the Bitcoin system and...
Area 51 Museum Opens in Nevada

Area 51 Museum Opens in Nevada

The pilgrimage for tin foil hat explorers to the ominous borders of Area 51 can now be undertaken without the threat of being shot at or chased off by low-flying black helicopters, as the world’s first official Area 51 museum opens in Nevada. The actual Area 51...
Medicine Men & Traditional Herbal Treatments

Medicine Men & Traditional Herbal Treatments

ABOUT SHAAHIN  Shaahin Cheyene is an Iranian born writer, filmmaker, lecturer and herbalist based in Los Angeles, California . For over 15 years, Cheyene has traveled extensively and worked with healers and medicine men and women from all over the world in an effort...
STOP CISPA: Come Togeter – Take Action

STOP CISPA: Come Togeter – Take Action

COME TOGETHER TO STOP CISPA! WHAT IS CISPA? The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523) is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Reps. Mike Rogers (D-MI) and C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD) in late 2011. It amends the...