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The obvious solution to this and other problems is to get these other people into the first world. Free immigration isn't just an ethical issue, it's also a practical solution to a…

Please, Pakistan is warlike and aggressive because they have been manipulated by the US into believing they can take on India (with US support). > genocidal violence against Muslim…

There's a satirical Hindi movie called Tere Bin Laden [1] about a bunch of bumbling journalists who find a Bin Laden lookalike and then attempt to trick the US into thinking he's t…

The least you should expect when you upload something onto a cloud service is that your data will be subject to all kinds of algorithmic analysis. And it's just not tenable for Goo…

It seems likely there were at least 2 DPRs. Ulbricht hints at this in his interview: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/an-inte...

How do you propose to spend money from your underworld wallet to buy real things - say to buy a car - without revealing your identity to the merchant? And once your identity is out…

DES was broken about 23 years after it was designed. I'd be surprised if 30 years into the future (probably earlier given the incentives we have to break crypto today are so much t…

I understand it isn't saved, I meant you could connect to the network and listen in on transactions. And what percentage of bitcoin nodes use Tor? With NSA-like global passive logg…

Thanks, I did not know that. But there's little reason to believe that whatever encryption that bitcoin uses (presumably EC?) won't be vulnerable at some point in the future.

Given tptacek and colleagues' paper on the RSA-doomsday scenario that might not be too far out in the future, I think it might be possible to reclaim (steal?) that money in the fut…

Can we link IP addresses and hence approximate locations to these wallets using announced transactions on the network? That might be an interesting visual. Maybe not because I doub…

If they generate and send a plaintext password, then anyone who gets access to that email, even months in future, can silently access the account. So there is a difference. Not if …

What is the actual security concern here? Do you think they are storing passwords in cleartext? It's not clear that is the case because they generated the password. Suppose they ch…