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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Along with Mahir, Mr. T Ate My Balls, All Your Base Are Belong To Us, and a pervasive embarrassment about discussing these things in daylight, dedicated early users of the internet were intimately ...

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.

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An all-time hall-of-fame NSFW spam event occurred this week: a hacker broke into a school messaging app to send a picture of a guy’s gaping sphincter to the parents of young school children across the ...