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 the real Bin Laden. I watched the movie…
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 Google to not do this kind of matching.…
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 in the open, how do you propose to…
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 than those we had in '98) if these…
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 logging, I think even Tor could be…
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 future. Obviously when RSA's end nears,…
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 doubt anybody was logging bitcoin network…
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 you change the password immediately.
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 chose a password for you and stored a…
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 the real Bin Laden. I watched the movie…
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 Google to not do this kind of matching.…
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 in the open, how do you propose to…
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 than those we had in '98) if these…
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 logging, I think even Tor could be…
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 future. Obviously when RSA's end nears,…
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 doubt anybody was logging bitcoin network…
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 you change the password immediately.
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 chose a password for you and stored a…