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Antbleed, The Bitcoin Backdoor

April 27, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Cryptography, Economics, Dubious Methodology, Information Security

Catalin Cimpanu writing at Bleeping Computer, regales us with the tale of Antbleed, a newly discovered tidbit of backdoor code found on Bitcoin mining devices. Oops.

April 27, 2017 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Cryptography, Economics, Dubious Methodology, Information Security

Judged →

February 14, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Law, Dubious Methodology, Due Process

Unlikely, yet significantly bothersome news for juris prudence...

February 14, 2017 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Law, Dubious Methodology, Due Process

Retailers Begin Physical Customer Tracking →

January 18, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Tracking, Dubious Methodology, Questionable Tracking, User Tracking, Surveillance, Must Read, Demise of Privacy, Information Security, Information Sharing, Intelligence Sharing, Intelligence, IoT, IoT Security

Tracking, that is, with the assistance of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), that benevolent arbiter of all things computational... El Reg has conveniently provided a FAQ (direct from the chip fabricator) in their superlatively reported post. Today's Must Read.

January 18, 2017 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Tracking, Dubious Methodology, Questionable Tracking, User Tracking, Surveillance, Must Read, Demise of Privacy, Information Security, Information Sharing, Intelligence Sharing, Intelligence, IoT, IoT Security