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The Superfish Funder List

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Re: The Superfish Funder List

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>CoinBase, an similar anti-privacy company Really? How is looking at public blockchain data at all similar to installing malware?

Some Bitcoiners don't like Coinbase's know-your-customer measures for anti money-laundering. Reddit's /r/bitcoin has had reports of people being suprised about what documentation they have to provide; or having their accounts shut down because they withdrew their bitcoins to an address Coinbase determined was connected to something shady, or put a joking reference to drugs in their transaction memo field.

Re: The Superfish Funder List

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>CoinBase, an similar anti-privacy company Really? How is looking at public blockchain data at all similar to installing malware?

Some Bitcoiners don't like Coinbase's know-your-customer measures for anti money-laundering. Reddit's /r/bitcoin has had reports of people being suprised about what documentation they have to provide; or having their accounts shut down because they withdrew their bitcoins to an address Coinbase determined was connected to something shady, or put a joking reference to drugs in their transaction memo field.

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Re: The Superfish Funder List

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some Bitcoiners don't like Coinbase's know-your-customer measures for anti money-laundering. Reddit's /r/bitcoin has had reports of people being suprised about what documentation they have to provide; or having their accounts shut down because they withdrew their bitcoins to an address Coinbase determined was connected to something shady, or put a joking reference to drugs in their transaction memo field.

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Not much IMO, but I said it because it's probably why this writer (an apparent cryptocurrency enthusiast) calls Coinbase an "anti-privacy company".

Re: The Superfish Funder List

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Eh. Investors invest in lots of companies, some of which make pretty bad mistakes. I think Superfish should be forced to wither on the vine because of this - and especially because it pawned off responsibility by saying, "hey, it was those guys, not us!" as should Lenovo ("it is just theoretical!"), but I doubt the investors explicitly backed something with the intent to break security. Few do.

Re: The Superfish Funder List

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>CoinBase, an similar anti-privacy company Really? How is looking at public blockchain data at all similar to installing malware?

Some Bitcoiners don't like Coinbase's know-your-customer measures for anti money-laundering. Reddit's /r/bitcoin has had reports of people being suprised about what documentation they have to provide; or having their accounts shut down because they withdrew their bitcoins to an address Coinbase determined was connected to something shady, or put a joking reference to drugs in their transaction memo field.

But that's entirely because they have to comply with federal law, not because they're "anti-privacy".

Re: The Superfish Funder List

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Wait, is it the same company as its website says something totally different about the company.

This website says its a visual search company. I wonder why would they be installing spyware ?? Or is that they are doing something different as well ?

Re: The Superfish Funder List

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As an Israeli, all I can say is that I am ashamed.

As a human, you needn't be culpable for offenses perpetrated by others regardless of their relation to you. If you belong to principles and help the people to foster them, your only shame will be from your own failures; a shame you can actually do something about. I'm a proud American but it doesn't mean what people think it means.
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