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Members of Congress should be making calls about this. Journalists should be asking the White House and DOJ questions.
The founder of Sci-hub—unquestionably one of the most important sites for academics in the world—should not be subject to persecution for their work. twitter.com/ringo_ring/sta…
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Since everybody in crypto is discussing clips from this talk today, here's the full conversation with @MartaBelcher: youtube.com/watch?v=JRsvz6…
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I'm afraid I have some bad news: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_su… twitter.com/MichLKosinski/…
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A story of the government spying on journalists should not be buried on a Friday: washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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The central property of cash is fungibility—meaning a dollar spent by a plumber is honored equally to one spent by a sex worker: they are indiscriminable. Adversarial chain analysis of Bitcoin's public ledger reduces its fungibility over time. Only privacy guarantees fungibility.
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4) Privacy coins are great, but they're too small and too easy to smother via regulatory actions like de-listing from exchanges. Only Bitcoin has immunity-via-dominance to delisting. It adopting privacy-by-design instantly normalizes financial privacy. Ultima Ratio Cryptum.
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3) Bitcoin's disastrous privacy is the "missing stair" of cryptocurrency. Every expert understands it's a problem, but—as experts—they themselves know how to compensate for the risk in their own personal interactions with Bitcoin, and therefore feel no urgency to actually fix it.
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...despite the theoretical risk of harming the value of that ownership, I continue to criticize Bitcoin's (and other cryptocurrencies I hold) failings because the public cost of doing otherwise would be orders of magnitude greater than that individual private gain. Moral compass.
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The worst part of cryptocurrency transforming into dragon-level wealth is witnessing good people emotionally devolve into dragons themselves: so intellectually paralyzed by the fear that everyone they see threatens their hoard that they lose sight of the world beyond their cave. twitter.com/gladstein/stat…
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I had a truly excellent conversation with the deeply impressive @MartaBelcher on cryptocurrencies, the threat of Central Bank Digital Currencies, privacy coins, Bitcoin's Taproot upgrade, how cash is tracked, and other things, like, you know, mass surveillance. Watch here: twitter.com/FilFoundation/…
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Read about it here: theintercept.com/drone-papers/
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Daniel Hale was charged under the Espionage Act for the "crime" of exposing the classified fact that nearly 90% of those the government kills via drone are innocents and bystanders. 90%.
Hale should be pardoned. Reality Winner should be pardoned. End the war on whistleblowers. twitter.com/democracynow/s…
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If you had wanted to watch my 30th anniversary fireside chat with the @EFF but missed it, it's now up online. youtube.com/watch?v=jxVpQH…
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I talked to Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) about privacy, surveillance, and more. Here's a part about how your phone is used to keep track of your movements—even if you uninstall every app in the drawer and disable "location services": youtube.com/watch?v=2jxdwI…
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This is going to be a lot of fun. Don't miss it: twitter.com/EFF/status/138…
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You're seeking a 175-year long sentence for an internationally award-winning publisher of news—despite protests from the United Nations, Amnesty International, the ACLU, the world's leading newspapers: nytimes.com/2021/02/12/us/… twitter.com/VP/status/1389…
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@markcianci Well, a previous group of extremists gathered in 1776 to contemplate that issue and arrived at a solution that seemed okay for the previous two hundred some years:
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CNN says the White House is discussing a new plan to expand domestic, warrantless surveillance of Americans—by paying private companies to infiltrate and report on the private social media groups of those it categorizes as "suspected extremists." edition.cnn.com/2021/05/03/pol…
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This would be more persuasive if the White House weren't aggressively seeking an 175-year sentence for the publisher of award-winning journalism of global importance—despite pleas from every significant press freedom and human rights organization: nytimes.com/2021/02/12/us/… twitter.com/SecBlinken/sta…
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Please don't miss this chance to hear the father of American whistleblowing, @DanielEllsberg, LIVE in just an hour and a half. I'll be in conversation with him as well. (TODAY, 5/1 @ 1:30PM Eastern) twitter.com/DanielEllsberg…
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The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act (it closes Federal loopholes that bypass extremely popular forms of warrantless surveillance):
wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
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The Greatest Conspiracies are Open and Notorious:
youtube.com/watch?v=e0zAJf…
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The U.S. Postal Service is running a "covert operation program" to monitor Americans' social media posts:
news.yahoo.com/the-postal-ser…
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Overlooked news items this week: the US Postal Service running a covert operation to spy on protestors, Congress proposing a (surprisingly good) "The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act," and more.
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