The rise of the web's gross-out culture began, ironically, with a government crackdown on Internet obscenity. In 1996 the US Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, which criminalized the use ...

Last night, I received an alarming email. It was from the people who now own goatse.cx. “BREAKING NEWS: YOU can now OWN a piece of GOATSE.CX in the Ethereum blockchain!” it exclaimed. Worrying. If you ...

People from my Internet generation, those who came online in the mid-1990s, have rose-tinted memories of early Web “shock sites”—sites with unassuming URLs containing horrible pictures of awful things ...

The infamous Goatse.cx domain, once home to a shock site with a picture of a man stretching his anus to a seemingly-impossible diameter, has endorsed the virtual currency Dogecoin. Users brave enough ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q82RNlCRoFs#!] It was nigh on half a decade ago that I first met the fell demon they call Goatse.cx ...

In November of last year, Gawker reported that the notorious gross-out site “Goatse.cx,” which showed an old man splaying open his anus for all to see, was being transitioned from a nostalgia-laden ...

A sacrosanct Internet institution is for sale: how much would you pay to own Goatse.cx (totally safe for work.... for now)? According to its official auction page on seobidding.com, the Goatse.cx ...

Goatse Security, the firm who blew the lid off of an exploit that allowed the names and email addresses of over 114,000 iPad owners to be farmed, is speaking out. In a blog post, Goastse team member ...

This iPad security breach story from last week continues to spin way out of control, and in our opinion fingers are being pointed in the wrong direction. The FBI is investigating the incident, and a ...

AT&T has fleshed out its response about an Apple iPad flaw that exposed customer email addresses and may just make matters worse. On June 7 we learned that unauthorized computer “hackers” maliciously ...

Goatse Security, the folks who exposed the AT&T iPad security flaw last week, are back with some new observations. First, they think AT&T is exceedingly lame for blaming THEM for the security flaw (we ...

The internet’s most notorious shock site will add a little bit of pizazz to your boring email address. Tired of people opening the emails you send them? An Australian IT consultant has just the thing.