Britain’s hospitals have been brought to a standstill because of ransomware infecting obsolete and unpatched Windows XP systems. The same obsolete operating system is…
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The six worst hypocrisies of the copyright industry in the last decade
The copyright industry keeps pounding a simplistic message to legislators – that copyright law is simple and that nobody honest could ever break it,…
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De-spamming service “Unroll” selling your inbox to Uber shows the importance of information hygiene, yet again
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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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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Bitcoin’s Unlimited Potential Lies in an Apolitical Core
The ongoing Bitcoin block size debate has accelerated into a kind of civil war. From threats of a 51% attack to online trolls and…
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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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