20130-09-12 Bloomberg - Who killed Online Privacy? We did

[FeedbackLoop]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-12/who-killed-online-privacy-we-did-.html

Excerpt that refers Bitcoin:

"Worse News
The news wasn’t good.
For a site whose glory has long been the image of the courageous freedom fighter in, say, Syria bravely sending messages to the world, the results were depressing: “Of the top twenty most popular Tor addresses, eleven are command and control centres for botnets, including all of the top five. Of the rest, five carry adult content, one is for Bitcoin mining and one is the Silk Road marketplace. Two could not be classified.” It gets even worse: “The FreedomHosting address is only the 27th most popular address,” according to Technology Review.
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[aigeezer]

"Then, last week, we were reminded that some 60 percent of the budget of the Tor Project comes from the federal government, including a whopping 40 percent from the Department of Defense."

Huh? What's that about?

Edit: This part is absolute nonsense, imho - "If we don’t want anyone to know what we’re buying, we’ll have to visit brick-and-mortar stores and pay cash. If we don’t want those who are sworn to protect us reading our e-mail and listening to our calls, we’ll have to meet our friends in person. It’s our growing unwillingness to take those time-consuming steps that’s killing our privacy."

He had been making an interesting case up to that point.
 

[monkeybars]

Huh? What's that about?

Bloomberg = bullshit propaganda

[marcus_of_augustus]

Capitulating to the police state is pretty much what lamestream media whores have been doing for the last 3 decades ... the prostration does become embarrassing in articles like these though.

Maybe they don't feel so bad about it if they can convince everyone it is okay and to "just go along with it" ...?

NB: Absolutely no hint whatsoever in the article about taking a political stand against the tyrants ... maybe he's afraid of being labelled a libertarian and scorned like a leper?