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Re:Q&A with hackers who say they helped break into Sony’s network
on Monday December 29, 2014 @07:49PM (#8812718)
Most of what they've been telling the media is obviously bogus bullshit. Sybil attack = Tor 0-day? Undersea cable taps to inject traffic??
They do control botnets (Vinnie operates a DDoS service at legion.cm) but certainly not on that scale.
Re:Scraping Craigslist for sold-out concert tickets
on Thursday December 25, 2014 @06:13PM (#8797470)
Re:Bitcoin Promoter Gets 2 Years for Silk Road Money Laundering
on Saturday December 20, 2014 @08:29PM (#8778635)
IIRC, Charlie Shrem gave Faiella (BTCKing) explicit instructions on how to avoid the AML rules he was required to enforce as Chief Compliance Officer of BitInstant.
Re:H.R.4681 - Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015
on Friday December 12, 2014 @11:41AM (#8741046)
What it applies to: any intelligence collection activity not otherwise authorized by court order (including FISA courts), subpoena, or similar legal process that is reasonably anticipated to result in the acquisition of a covered communication to or from a US person.
What it does: permits the acquisition, retention, and dissemination of non-public communications indefinitely, unless any parties are US persons and the communication is NOT encrypted, in which case they can only be retained for 5 years. (There are some other exemptions to this 5 year rule.)
Note that "incidentally acquired" appears only in the section title.
The main question here for me is what exactly this applies to. Is "any intelligence collection activity not otherwise authorized" blanket permission to collect anything?
Re:Microsoft accepting Bitcoin
on Thursday December 11, 2014 @07:01AM (#8734275)
Posted to /r/bitcoin: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2oypbo/bitpay_empl...