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Anyone can create a random key with a random email. See all the president@whitehouse.gov addresses on the keyservers. So if they used the keyserver network I could just make a fake…

Keybase lets you do some key stuff, but the bigger feature is that it provides a bunch of ways to authenticate the source of a key above and beyond the WoT and getting into the str…

It depends on whether they use PGP/MIME or inline PGP. Without installing the tool, I'm guessing they use PGP/MIME, because you pretty much can't use html email with inline PGP, an…

Well the odds are non-zero. If you're worried about intelligence agencies harvesting your private keys, any odds above 0 is close to 1.

Actually the current guidelines are pretty clear. Mining is income. When you receive your coins from mining, that's a taxable event. Current value - mining expenses = income. After…

Inflation adjusted, that would put him in the range of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Mellon, etc. If (and it's a big if) bitcoin was worth as much as the world gold market, it…

Define 'long term' Government's crumble making the long term value of any currency 0.

True, but they were able to process a single quarter-million dollar transaction and easily turn that into 'real' cash. That's still a pretty decent accomplishment for magic interne…

Switzerland has its own currency and its own central bank. It doesn't use the Euro. So the money doesn't need to 'paid for'. The government can just create the money and hand it ou…

All the telecom companies, which cooperate fully with law enforcement, charge for their services. It's perfectly fair to bill time and materials that you can no longer use to impro…

These guys are complaining about disk space and bandwidth, not message security. Even so, the current network can probably handle 100,000 messages a day, and the bottleneck there i…

This seems very similar to bitmessage, which has a functioning client and 1000's of active nodes. Why would I wait for this instead of using bitmessage?

The problem is that you don't sent to the destination SMTP server. You send to your SMTP server. That goes at least one hop via SMTP and eventually ends up on the destination's dom…

Meanwhile, per the Washington Post article, he asked the guardian to setup PGP in Feb, and his contact finally did so in March, both before this key's listed creation date.

With regard to PGP, you can get a reader and smartcard from Kernel Concepts. Assuming you already know how to use GPG, it's pretty easy to set up. http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/ind…

Technically you want to submit a Privacy Act request to get records on yourself which is different than an FOIA request. But the NSA will just deny the request with a form letter.

And after that is the increasing use of smart-phone clients which don't have support.

Okay, so lets assume that the NSA has quantum computers that can decrypt RSA and ECC with ease. They would have to assume another state funded effort by someone like China could do…

If you're actually trying to encrypt email, you probably don't want your mail app building a search index in plain text.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism

An actual pyramid scheme involves you giving a cut of your profits to the person who signed you up, and getting a cut of profits from people you sign up. Nothing remotely like this…

Some Russians tried this in May 2011 during the last bubble. MtGox was transparent about it. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7494.0

Current Market Cap is at $1 billion. Let's say all bitcoin becomes is a paypal killer. Paypal had a total payment volume of $145 billion in 2012. Now you can't just say a fair valu…

The emails are actually signed with Aaron's PGP key.

"Of course one of the disciplines I'm talking about is TDD. Anybody who thinks they can go faster by not writing tests is smoking some pretty serious shit." Why do so many TDD peop…