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Darknet market activity hit new highs in 2019, as shown in a new report from blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis. Despite concerted attempts from law enforcement (LE) to crack down on darknet markets (DNMs), coupled with several exit scams, crypto inflows and outflows surpassed $800 million last year. Also read: Monopoly Is a Tiny Darknet Market … Read more
Telegram CEO argues that iCloud is “now officially a surveillance tool,” citing a report on the FBI stopping Apple from encrypting users’ backups Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
According to one researcher, quantum computing faces more hurdles than many realize when it comes to achieving viability in breaking encryption. In a recent report Dr. Subhash Kak, Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University, notes that there are issues such as “noise” and error correction that render the buzz about … Read more
Researchers claim to have developed a chip that enables unbreakable cryptography Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
Both times involved a new economic class with something to fight for. From a merchant class trying to break the economic stranglehold of feudal landlords and the church to the millennials Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
Virtual private networks (VPNs) can be useful for all kinds of things, from streaming foreign sports to protecting your identity from heightened online surveillance. For cryptocurrency users, VPNs are particularly precious, providing access to exchanges that are geo-restricted, and enabling crypto activities to be completed on the web without leaving a privacy-betraying footprint. Also read: … Read more
Trying to crack a private key with a brute force attack is a bit like trying to count to infinity: the sooner you begin, the faster you’ll never get there. Despite being as next to impossible as impossible gets, using a brute force attack to crack a bitcoin private key remains an intriguing idea for … Read more
London-based decentralized communication startup New Vector has raised $8.5 million to fuel adoption of Matrix, a major alternative messaging protocol Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
If you could go back in time and do the internet all over again, what would you change? Would you think twice about joining Facebook, decline to upload those fancy dress photos from ‘09 and delete that rhetoric-laden blog post instead of hitting ‘Publish’? It’s too late to undo the mistakes of the past, but … Read more
Walmart has filed a blockchain tech patent which focuses on using blockchain to facilitate communications between drones Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
