In today's sentencing Carl Mark Force IV received a bit of leniency over the 87 months imprisonment recommended by the prosecution. The judge simply flipped the digits relieving him with a sentence of only 78 months.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Well Connected Bezzle "Health" Startup Theranos Collapsing
Theranos, a health startup which features a board comprised of two former US Secretary of State, Numerous former US Defense Officials, a former Senator, and a former Wells Fargo CEO is facing accusations of their signature blood testing service was never accurate to a useful degree and they have withdrawn all but one product from the market (achived). Theranos was at one point reportedly valued at up to 10 Billion dollars, or a little more than a half of Whatsapp at the time of its acquision by Facebook. This suggest that even well entrenched fiat luminaries like Henry Kissenger and former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, MD are beyond saving fiat startups they involve themselves with from excessive hype and insufficient competence.
Carl Mark Force IV To Be Sentenced Monday, Prosecutors Request 87 Months Imprisonment
Insubordinate United States Government Drug Enforcement Agent Carl Mark Force IV will be sentenced at a hearing on Monday. Reports are that Prosecutors are only requesting a sentence of 7 years and 3 months of imprisonment for Force IV who committed crimes against the United States Government as opposed to Ulbricht's life sentence for simply seeking the freedom to act outside of the United States Government. Force IV announced his intention to plea guilty back in June.
Troubled BitPay Signs up Gaming Platform
Reports (archived) are in that Kwun Tong, Hong Kong-based digital gaming marketplace G2A.com has begun accepting Bitcoin via troubled bitcoin-fiat payment processor BitPay. Continue reading
Uber Provides Alibi for Armed Robbery
The advent of unmarked "sharing economy" taxi cabs is providing a new alibi for getaway drivers and accomplices of armed robberies, reports confirm (archived). Continue reading
AP: Hillary Clinton Horrible Sysadmin, Had RDP Open
According to the Associated Press, Hillary Clinton's private email server ran with ports for the Remote Desktop Protocol and other unsecured services open to the public internet (archived). Hillary's sysadmin qualifications had been questioned before when she chose Microsoft Exchange as an email server and when she requested over email a book on the subject of deleting email. It is becoming clear that Hillary Clinton is grossly under qualified to operate technology at an infrastructure level.
Trouble Hits Purse.io Customers
Reports have been popping up on various social media forums claiming that funds held on behalf of users had been disappearing from the retail intermediary operation Purse.io beginning this weekend. In a blog post (archived) Purse.io reports account password reset emails were triggered in an unauthorized fashion, though they denied missing user funds until a recent update. Purse.io insists users of two factor authentication methods they support were unaffected, though there are reports on various forums disputing this as well as the scale of the theft.
Darknet Firearms Seller Pleads Guilty
According to WOOD News in Central Michigan, the local United States prosecutor's office managed to hook allege darknet firearms dealer Ben Cance into entering a guilty plea on charges related to international firearms trafficking and money laundering (archived). Prosecutors secured Cance's plea and his cooperation in other investigations by dropping charges of "machine gun possession" against Cance. The Judge allowed Cance's release on bond to continue so he could continue collaborating with prosecutors and inform on his past customers some of which are alleged to be in the United Kingdom and Poland. The 30 year old Cance is set to be sentenced by Judge Robert Holmes Bell on January 15th in the Grand Rapids United States District Court.
BitVPS Customers Unable To Access Services
BitVPS a company plagued by problems since it's beginnings has lost access to its servers providing hosting to customers. The client portion of the site has been down for maintenance for several days causing customers to show up in the company's IRC channel for support. Unfortunate for those users, arij of BitVPS stated the company in addition to having lost access to its servers has no redundant backups of the servers, making for a complete loss of all clients' data. arij stated on IRC: Continue reading
Foundation and No Such lAbs Continue Improving Bitcoin: V Ascendant
This past month's work by the Bitcoin Foundation and No Such lAbs shows substantial ground being laid for a better Bitcoin future with much of the work occurring on the V code management system and its reimplementations. The original V was authored by asciilifeform in Python and released at the end of August with the intent that it would be reimplemented numerous times by users seeking to understand its workings. In particular an implementation of V in perl by Bitcoin Foundation co-chair mod6 which is anticipated to be released for public consumption soon includes further advanced functionality including the production of flow graphs. Further work teased in the No Such lAbs September statement was the near completion of routing work for the Cardano boards and an Ada implementation of RSA encryption suitable for running on bare metal for the glory of the most serene republic. The Bitcoin Foundation intends to use V to package their bitcoind version 0.5.4 release.