It was a perfect service: sorting your mail and not just removing all spam for you, but also unsubscribing you from all of that…
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Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and a low-altitude motorcycle pilot. He lives on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany, roasts his own coffee, and as of right now (2019-2020) is taking a little break.
Blockstream having patents in Segwit makes all the weird pieces of the last three years fall perfectly into place
Based on Blockstream’s behavior in the Bitcoin community, I have become absolutely certain that Segwit contains patents that Blockstream and/or their owners have planned…
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What Australia can learn from Europe’s failure with Data Retention
This month, Australia’s law mandating telecommunications data retention went into effect. It is clear that Australia learned absolutely nothing from Europe’s abysmal 10-year failure…
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With laptops banned onboard aircraft, your data is no longer yours if you fly
New US regulations ban laptops on board some aircraft, requiring laptops to be in checked luggage. One of the first things you learn in…
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Airport: “We’re tracking every single footstep you take and can connect it to your mail address, but your privacy is safe because we say so”
A sign on the revolving entrance to a European airport, one sign among many, says “the airport employs wi-fi and bluetooth tracking; your privacy…
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Would U.S. Congress find it acceptable that their phonecalls were recorded, sold, and published?
The United States Congress has decided that Internet Service Providers shall be Common Carriers but without the obligations of a Common Carrier. Specifically, which…
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When good loses to lawful: this thing about proper legal procedures with indefensible outcomes
It’s interesting to watch people rushing to defend the legal processes in last week’s story about a man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt,…
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With shock appeals ruling, the United States has effectively outlawed file encryption
An appeals court has denied the appeal of a person who is jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt files. The man has not been…
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Great: Now your sex toys are used to spy on you and sell your private habits, too
The makers of an Internet-connected sex toy have settled to pay a small amount to some 300,000 owners of a vibrator which was used…
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Old world squanders opportunity to tame bitcoin a little
The American SEC, which oversees financial institutions, has rejected a bid to create a traditional trading fund (an ETF) based on bitcoin. The trading…
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