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by nikcub 13y ago
For the sake of argument, swap out 'NSA' for any large state actor - it's silly to ask this specifically of the NSA and most of the attention is around them because of the Snowden leaks. Now, would a large state actor involve
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by nikcub 13y ago
Another option is that OTF approached CryptoCat, from where their options would be: a) don't do an audit - and the public would ask what they are hiding b) agree to an audit being done, meaning you 'commissioned' it. So it is
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by nikcub 13y ago
you shouldn't rely on your hosting provider to secure/shred your data, do it yourself. encfs is really easy to setup and use, everybody should be using it, especially on VPS's: $ sudo apt-get install encfs or:
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by nikcub 13y ago
exactly.
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by nikcub 13y ago
Thanks - I will send along any examples I find. A suggestion might be to have another way to signal that a story is being artificially boosted besides 'flag'. For instance, a 'report' button where a brief description cou
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by nikcub 13y ago
> One thing that does seem to have gotten persistently worse is the process of getting a good story onto the front page. Completely agree. The Business Week cover story on new details from the Target data breach got 16 upvotes: https:&#
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by nikcub 13y ago
I guess i'll hijack this thread to ask anybody else if they have noticed a slip in quality of front page? I used to check HN first thing and read 50%+ of frontpage stories, now I barely click one or two. When there is something interes
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by nikcub 13y ago
> warn people to be very careful with bitcoin. s/bitcoin/mtgox I withdrew everything I had in Feb '13, the writing had been on the wall for a while even at that point.
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by nikcub 13y ago
the Turkish government will eventually figure out how to block Tor, and when that happens the users will need bridges. You can help out by dedicating some spare resources to run as a relay + bridge, takes a minute to install and setup. Shar
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by nikcub 13y ago
If it means anything, a lot of people internally at Techcrunch knew about this incident as well - as did a few people outside. It's just being made public now.
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by nikcub 13y ago
I can confirm this, we switched to Rackspace hosted email.
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by nikcub 13y ago
It was Paulson who lead it, but Bernanke and Blair were right there next to him during the TARP ultimatum meeting. The implicit threat was that if they turned it down, the regulators would force it upon them. The meeting minutes came out in
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by nikcub 13y ago
> They have no authority to bailout a bank. Is the understanding of the financial crisis really this poor? Paulson literally forced the banks to take TARP. The CEO of BofA and other banks that didn't need it spent a lot of time i
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Bitcoin Developer Guide(bitcoindev.us.to)
1 points by nikcub 13y ago|0 comments
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by nikcub 13y ago
> People then started demanding the transaction ID so they could try to track down his wallet. All of the top comments in that thread[0] specifically asked not to publish the transaction id, but some people just want to interpret thing
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by nikcub 13y ago
the entire story relied on pretexting. i'd love to see the email to the merchant, bet she didn't identify as a journalist.
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by nikcub 13y ago
Someone posted the following on Secret[0]: > I put 1MM of our startup's cash into mt.gox and it's lost 80% of its value. I haven't told my cofounder or vcs yet There was some speculation it might be the same person. [0] h
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by nikcub 13y ago
and thats just the leaks you know about
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by nikcub 13y ago
Tor isn't a browser, it is a network, app and protocol, the bundled browser is just one quick way to use it. I use it with my normal Chrome browser. brew install tor then setup a new user in Chrome and install the proxy switch
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Update on the Mt. Gox "Crisis Strategy Draft" leaked document(two-bit-idiot.tumblr.com)
29 points by nikcub 13y ago|4 comments
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by nikcub 13y ago
I doubt this is the thief's wallet because it would mean that they somehow managed to execute withdrawals of 3k and 5k bitcoin 7 and 5 days ago respectively - MtGox has stopped all withdrawals for weeks/months now. The number of t
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Slide 8 of MtGox 'Crisis Strategy' presentation uncensored: MtGox Financials(i.imgur.com)
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by nikcub 13y ago
It is real - this is an internal strategy doc shared between the exchanges and other Bitcoin people with MtGox and it was never supposed to be public. Something has gone wrong with the plan. Here is what i've worked out so far what has
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by nikcub 13y ago
old lawyer advice: "the only good time to destroy evidence is before it becomes evidence"
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by nikcub 13y ago
"Blue Sky" is the name of an underground drug marketplace. It is one of the new[1] sites looking to replace Silk Road and is apparently popular. Onion link: http://blueskyplzv4fsti.onion/ edit: screenshot of the m
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by nikcub 13y ago
the migration from v4 to v5 went ok, considering there was a large blog campaign against end-of-lifing php v4 (I remember Matt Mullenweg, amongst many other bloggers and hosting companies, had the badge in their blog sidebars) and there was
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by nikcub 13y ago
It is bitcoin almost everywhere in the underground now. It used to be "accept LR, WM, UK" (meaning liberty reserve, web money, ukash, etc.) on vendor forum posts but now the payment method isn't even mentioned since it is ass
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by nikcub 13y ago
You can now buy credit cards on some of the new underground markets that are replacing Silk Road. Find the type of card you want, select how many you want ($5-20 each) and go through the checkout process, just like shopping on Amazon. What
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by nikcub 13y ago
> The source said that he had bought a large batch of stolen cards from an underground site and that they all appeared to have been used at Target. Interesting sidenote in the Target hack. First, something that you might not know: not on
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Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen(deepdotweb.com)
449 points by nikcub 13y ago|531 comments

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