Virgil Griffith - Crypto Advocate and Educator Arrested at LAX from DPRK

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>> What the frag. How could that "conduct" be illegal? Didn't the US Gov
>> learn about the idiocy of trying to keep math and algorithms secret with
>> the whole encryption = weapons thing decades ago now?

#FreeSpeech , #FreeThought , #FreeCrypto , #Freedom
#Cypherpunks , #Cryptocurrency , #Cryptoanarchy

And many more fundamentals people forget when these sorts
of situations turn up.

Cryptocurrency does interesting things to power,
regardless of however or wherever it is introduced,
it will ultimately fulfill whatever its prophecy is to come.


> consider copyright and Napster. you can have a generic file sharing
> software, but you can't promote it as a piracy tool!
> you can teach blockchain to NK, but you can't teach sanctions evasion and
> money laundering to NK!
> add to this his actual attempt to transaction between SK and NK.

Statism at its finest.


> hard to feel sorry for a guy who tried to sell tor2web data (user IPs, full
> URIs, timestamps) to INTERPOL...

There are always M sides and N layers to any MEMEX story,
and as Tor Stinks thread shows, there are certainly many
more left to be told and uncovered, many messengers who
will be attacked, etc. Here are only a few parts of this one...

https://medium.com/@virgilgr/hi-meredith-fe4440ba675b
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/SponsorR
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-May/subject.html
https://medium.com/@maradydd/virgil-are-you-really-so-dishonest-that-you-cant-even-get-through-your-first-paragraph-without-at-26129c5f66ab
https://securewww.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/article-896.pdf
http://virgil.gr/page/2016/10/5/tor