As if Verizon's top secret court order leak wasn't bad enough for the NSA, now PRISM, a top secret mass surveillance project was just revealed. This post is for those who haven't (somehow) heard the news:  The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian. The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says. The PRISM program allows the NSA, the world's largest surveillance organisation, to obtain targeted communications without having to request them from the service providers and without having to obtain individual court orders. With this program, the NSA is able to reach directly into the servers of the participating companies and obtain both stored communications as well as perform real-time collection on targeted users. "Fisa was broken because it provided privacy protections to people who were not entitled to them," the presentation claimed. "It took a Fisa court order to collect on foreigners overseas who were communicating with other foreigners overseas simply because the government was collecting off a wire in the United States. There were too many email accounts to be practical to seek Fisas for all." "It's shocking enough just that the NSA is asking companies to do this," he said. "The NSA is part of the military. The military has been granted unprecedented access to civilian communications. "This is unprecedented militarisation of domestic communications infrastructure. That's profoundly troubling to anyone who is concerned about that separation."The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-dataWashington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html?hpid=z1 |
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With this program, the NSA is able to reach directly into the servers of the participating companies and obtain both stored communications as well as perform real-time collection on targeted users.
"Fisa was broken because it provided privacy protections to people who were not entitled to them," the presentation claimed. "It took a Fisa court order to collect on foreigners overseas who were communicating with other foreigners overseas simply because the government was collecting off a wire in the United States. There were too many email accounts to be practical to seek Fisas for all." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-orderIT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, the Custodian of Records shall produce to the National Security Agency (NSA) upon service of this Order, and continue production
on an ongoing daily basis thereafter for the duration of this Order, unless otherwise ordered by the Court, an electronic copy of the following tangible things: all call detail
records or "telephony metadata" created by Verizon for communications (i) between the United States and abroad; or (ii) wholly within the United States, including local
telephone calls. This Order does not require Verizon to produce telephony metadata for communications wholly originating and terminating in foreign countries. Telephony metadata includes comprehensive communications routing information,. including but not limited to session identifying information (e.g., originating and terminating telephone number, International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number, International Mobile station Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, etc.), trunk identifier, telephone calling card numbers, and time and duration of call. ... IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that no person shall disclose to any other person that
the FBIor NSA has sought or obtained tangible things under this Order, other than to: (a) those persons to whom disclosure is necessary to comply with such Order; (b) an attorney to obtain legal advice or assistance with respect to the production of things in response to the Order; or (c) other persons as permitted by the Director of the FBI or the Director's designee. A person to whom disclosure is made pursuant to (a), (b), or (c)
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Given a private key, a sweep to address and a RPC connection to Bitcoin-Qt, this function must send all the coins to the sweep to address, paying the appropriate network fee.
1.5 2 BTC bounty. Note: Cannot make use of costly wallet reindex operations.
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Put your money where your mouth is. I'm offering a 100 BTC wager (we both send 50 BTC to an escrow, I prefer John), and I bet on that CoinLenders will outperform any PMB of your choice with sufficient volume (so share prices won't be artificially pumped just to win this wager).
CoinLenders currently pays out up to 27.25% APR for 90 days. Or, 1 BTC will yield 1.06123. How it works:
1) You pick a PMB with enough volume
2) When the bet starts, record the price that PMB.
3) After 90 days, sum up all the dividends from that PMB, and then subtract the capital loss from the decrease in the PMB's price. Find out your return over 90 days for 1 BTC.
If this value is greater than 1.06123, you win the bet and get ~98 BTC (escrow fees). If the value is lower than 1.06123 (I'm pretty sure it's going to be less than 1), I get ~98 BTC (escrow fees).
This is open to everyone.
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@BitcoinScammers:
Please stop blindly posting EVERYTHING here to bitcoinscammers. You have a site with lots of potential, but you are ruining it by adding "scam accusations" that are frivolous, trivial or just plain ignorant. It drowns out the actual scam reports.
Yes, you might not be able to determine if something is true or not. But you need to see if something already has being solved or is just silly
Also, why do you have "CREDIT RATING: AAA"? Is this a scammer list or business directory? Do NOT have both of them located together.
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Technocashin Australia, a service comparable to Dwolla in the US, has being seized over money laundering charges.
What does this mean for Ripple?
(i) The regulators will let a money bearer instrument transferring, pseudonymous, fiat-tied network from a tech startup survive the battle of the control of money?
(ii) Or else.
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Decentralization (or decentralisation) is the process of redistributing or dispersing functions, powers, people or things away from a central location or authority.
Decentralization is not multiple central authorities that trusts each other.
Decentralization is where everyone is an independent authority and does not need to trust each other.
The internet is fairly decentralized (not talking about DNS / SSL). I don't need to ask ICANN if this guy is really 84.223.248.25 when someone makes a request, I just send packets to that address and if the source IP was forged it would arrive in the wrong destination. That's trust free. Same thing with Bitcoin, I *don't* need to trust a miner spent processing power mining a block, I can verify it through their Proof of Work.
Decentralization is not root central authorities that you trust or start to trust.
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Hi are we talking on Skype?
btcmank said send him a pm please  guess he was trying to get a hold of you U have a skype imposter. Look in exchange thread for a member named skrill2btc
Don't trade. Was also spamming coinchat. |
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Post here if you are interested in a guide to creating your own cryptocurrency. No programming, git, etc experience needed. Probably won't be free.
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Anyone placing bets on that?
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I've noticed this advertisement on Bitcointalk.org stealing my styling code (coinchat). Is this ad placed by Plus500 or placed by someone else who put a referral link there? http://www.plus500.com/Instruments/BTCUSD?id=67193&tags=2405&pl=2 |
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Did you ignore Tomatocage's thread and traded with a scammer anyways? Good job, here's what you should do so they can't scam more people: 1. Find their profile (or click on the trust link in their userbox on a post / PM). Click on the trust link.  2. Fill in the form. Enter your scammer accusations thread URL in the reference link field.  3. Here you go.  Your feedback may not show up to other users as trusted feedback (ie it won't count towards scores) unless you are trusted by them. Was that so hard? |
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