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PandoDaily ♥s Cypherpunks
by Razer 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

PandoDaily's been 'on a roll' since... since... Yashsa Levine doesn't ♥ Glenn Greenwald and The//Intercept. They apparently want everyone, including non-High Value Targets, to think all cybersecurity is a joke. Tweet: "Cypherpunks, Internet privacy community stuck in cycle of dependency on US government intelligence agency handouts." via the supposedly defunct eXiledOnline's twitter feed <https://mobile.twitter.com/exiledonline/status/572444918003728384?p=v> (which is apparently being used as a PandoDaily promotion outlet via Mark Ames now) The article referenced by that tweet: Internet privacy, funded by spooks: A brief history of the BBG http://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spooks-a-brief-histo…

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The Reading Room hidden service
by Crypto 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

Hello Everyone! About once a week I go in search of TOR hidden services that may be of interest to me. I found one this morning that I think is really great! I purchased a Ebook reader a couple of weeks ago and have been looking for sites to download books on the cheap (free). I found The Reading Room this morning at http://do2j6w3zf2esv4ko.onion/_catalog/ I don't usually promote ANY website but I think whoever did this site deserves a pat on the back (or a donation). I downloaded several Ebooks with no problems. Pardon my posting this if you are offended but I'm SO happy to find a website that will help feed my Ebook addiction! -- Crypto https://lastpass.com/f?3921926

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[Bitcoin-development] New paper: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
by Eugen Leitl 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

----- Forwarded message from Andrew Miller <amiller(a)cs.umd.edu> ----- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 11:48:24 -0500 From: Andrew Miller <amiller(a)cs.umd.edu> To: Bitcoin-development(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bitcoin-development] New paper: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies Message-ID: <CAF7tpEyHyg7cB8DQiwb-gGg5v5Hn1Kurw2GaVtid=LyJrB1XQA(a)mail.gmail.com> We (Joseph Bonneau, myself Arvind Narayanan, Jeremy Clark, Ed Felten, Josh Kroll -- from Stanford, Maryland, Concordia, Princeton) have written a “systemization” paper about Bitcoin-related research. It’s going to appear in the Oakland security conference later this year (IEEE Security and Privacy) but we wanted to announce a draft to this community ahead of time. http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/BMCNKF15-IEEESP-bitcoin.pdf One of the main goals of our work is to build a bridge between the computer science research community and the cryptocurrency community. Many of the most interesting ideas and proposals for Bitcoin come from this mailing list and forums/wikis/irc channels, where many academic researchers simply don’t know to look! In fact, we started out by scraping all the interesting posts/articles we could find and trying to figure out how we could organize them. We hope our paper helps some of the best ideas and research questions from the Bitcoin community bubble up and inspires researchers to build on them. We didn’t limit our scope to Bitcoin, but we also decided not to provide a complete survey of altcoins and other next-generation cryptocurrency designs. Instead, we tried to explain all the dimensions along which these designs differ from Bitcoin. This effort has roughly been in progress over two years, though it stopped and restarted several times along the way. If anyone has comments or suggestions, we still have a week before the final version is due, and regardless we plan to continue updating our online version for the forseeable future. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development ----- End forwarded message -----

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Internet privacy, funded by spooks: A brief history of the BBG
by John Young 01 Mar '15

01 Mar '15

Internet privacy, funded by spooks: A brief history of the BBG, March 1, 2015 http://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spooks-a-brief-histo… Open Technology Foundation featured, along with Tor, Appelbaum, Doctorow, Kobeissi, Soghoian, et al

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Re: Governments Covertly Fund Internet Freedom Activists
by shelley＠misanthropia.org 01 Mar '15

01 Mar '15

On March 1, 2015 10:51:09 AM brian carroll <electromagnetize(a)gmail.com> wrote: > perhaps the institutionalization of 'royal perks' explains > in part the necessity of a one-party governing system, > where any actual opposition (politics) are then managed > and absorbed into this model, to protect/secure/maintain > aristocratic lifestyles otherwise threatened by actual change, > where the focus of issues of subsidy then becomes the poor: > > "hark! peasants are drinking wine, wine!! with Our Money!" > > (in a top-down surveillance context, who benefits/profits most?) ^ This +100. Very prescient; I could not have put it any better.

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