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Risky Business security podcast number 266
Risky Business #266 -- ToR, BitCoin, crooks and quantum key distribution
hosts: Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau
2012-12-07
http://risky.biz/RB266...
On this week's show we're talking ToR and BitCoin with Alice Hutchings, a Senior Researcher and Analyst with the Australian Institute of Criminology's Global, Economic and Electronic Crime Program.
ToR helps dissidents in foreign countries access information their governments deem unsavoury -- but it also provides a layer of protection to the consumers of child porn. Combine it with technology like BitCoin and bang, you've got Silk Road. Given the illicit uses of such technology, is volunteering to run a ToR server moral?
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Interview with Alice Hutchings begins at about 27:40 minutes in.
(Mainly about Tor.. 39:50 Bitcoin is discussed and compared to Hawala systems, particularly with regard to money laundering.)
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