And you thought Blockchain was private and secure?

[GreyGeek]

https://www.techspot.com/news/71197-...commentsOffset

Investigators discovered OxyMonster’s real identity by tracing outgoing Bitcoin transactions from his tip jar to wallets registered to Vallerius. Agents then checked his Twitter and Instagram accounts, where they found many writing similarities, including regular use of quotation marks, double exclamation marks, and the word “cheers,” as well as intermittent French posts.

[SpecialEd]

https://www.techspot.com/news/71197-...commentsOffset

'Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.' --Terry Pratchett

[jglen490]

There is no completely secure application. It's just software, not magic. Just understand that by being on a network, there is always risk, and you give up some measure of privacy/security just by being where you are. Act appropriately ...

[GreyGeek]

There is no completely secure application. It's just software, not magic. Just understand that by being on a network, there is always risk, and you give up some measure of privacy/security just by being where you are. Act appropriately ...

Networks are not secure, either. I spent August exploring the various P2P technologies (IPFS, I2P, Freenet and ZeroNet) and found none of them were really that secure nor significantly "P2P". All of them routed through ISP servers, were too complicated, used too much of my bandwidth and diskspace, and exposed the user to too many risks, both security wise and legal wise. Not even TOR is as secret as people think and using it to visit the DarkWeb is as risky as walking alone, unarmed, in the slums at 2AM.

[jglen490]

Correct. Networks are nothing but connected wires that run through electronic devices. All of which are implemented by ...

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software! And also some firmware that is burned into a device's nonvolatile memory. Firmware is of course compiled from source just like ...

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software! (with a couple of gratuitous extra)!!!!

[Snowhog]

Admitedly, this is dated, but I still found it interesting (and likely, still relevant).

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ANONYMOUS ONLINE TRACKING
By Arvind Narayanan on July 28, 2011 at 12:38 pm

[claydoh]

From bitcoin itself:
Bitcoin is not anonymous

It is only as secure as you make your wallet.

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[GreyGeek]

An interesting and informative explanation of how Bitcoin works. It does a good job of explaining how important Bitcoin mining is and how it takes place and why mining will eventually be replaced by fees. 21 Million Bitcoins have yet to be mined and all will be mined by 2040. After that mining will be rewarded with transaction fees.

[woodsmoke]

21 Million Bitcoins have yet to be mined and all will be mined by 2040. After that mining will be rewarded with transaction fees.

the number is quite irrelevant.

if there is not som kind of "ENFORCABLE" requirement to "pay" then it is alllll what is the song from the sixties?

wishful thinkiing by people who have mega amounts of money to play with what other people think is important and...

more importantly...

"blowing in the wind"...

KALI needs volunteers.

woodsmoke

[jglen490]

An interesting and informative explanation of how Bitcoin works. It does a good job of explaining how important Bitcoin mining is and how it takes place and why mining will eventually be replaced by fees. 21 Million Bitcoins have yet to be mined and all will be mined by 2040. After that mining will be rewarded with transaction fees.

Bitcoin and the Khardashians - famous for being famous. And worth about the same ...

[woodsmoke]

jglen

might I suggest Kali as a divertisement?

woodloveswomeninswimsuitsbutnotbotoxlipssmoke

[jglen490]

In my work as a systems engineer, I am surrounded by the concerns of IA professionals. I love them all and they are great folks, but by the time I get home I don't want to give any serious thought to Information Assurance much less the ethics of hacking. I appreciate the idea, but I'll leave it alone.

Thank you.

[GreyGeek]

With 21 million bitcoins to release in the next 23 years that's about 2,500 per day. Each coin is about $4K.

IF you could mine on coin a week ... which, without a GPU based server farm mining 24/7/365, it essentially impossible. You'd be lucky to pay your electric bill.