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Docker On List Of Companies Taking Quiet CIA Funding

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The Intercept has published a list of 38 companies involved in the datamining business1 that take undisclosed funding from the venture capital arm of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (archived). Among these companies was one not often though of in conjunction with the data mining business, Docker who develops software that leverages containers to ease the automated deployment of various kinds of application software. Docker last attracted the attention of Qntra when their employee and Debian founder Ian Murdock died following a violent encounter with police. Following his death Docker Inc. managed his affairs. Consider Docker harmful. Sorry for your loss. Peace in our time.

  1. Edit: Here is a link to a previous discussion of the CIA money disbursement machine. Many of the funded companies go beyond datamining and in fact engage in all kinds of snake oil. Some even produce products available for "civilian" use.  ↩

"Soft" Fork Advocate Proposes Harder Type Of "Soft" Fork

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Peter Todd, a noted soft fork proponent and developer currently on contract with the venture at one point known as BTC China, has since January been bringing up the possibility of a new kind of "soft" fork as a potential step towards a hard fork. This new class of turd is being referred to as a "Forced Soft Fork" with the forcing element being that it would become impossible to spend coins from actual Bitcoin clients without signing on to the new, unwanted, steaming pile of shit. Thankfully an actual Bitcoin implementation maintained by Bitcoin purists1 is available.

  1. As opposed to people who like the extant adoption and value of Bitcoin, but want to gradually change everything about Bitcoin other than its name into something completely different.  ↩

Voorhees ShapeShift Hit Inside Job?

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A recent update from ShapeShit.io owner Erik Voorhees indicates that the recent attack on their service was potentially an inside job. An announcement published earlier on Reddit states that the company has been working with a group of forensic specialists from Ledger Labs to investigate the theft, which involved an undisclosed amount of BTC and altcoins from their hot wallets. Voorhees further stated they are working to restore the service and would publish more information as it becomes available.

Journalist Sentenced Under US Hacking Laws

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Journalist Matthew Keys was sentenced to 24 months in prison by United States district judge Kimberly J. Mueller for allegedly turning over a username and password to television station KTXL Fox 40's web content management system. Prosecutors alleged that Keys did this in order to damage his former employer further alleging that Keys turned over the credentials to a fictitious hacker collective called 'Anonymous' and told them to have fun. Keys insists that the overzealous prosecution of the act, one that if he did it could barely be classed as criminal, has been carried out as retaliation for his refusal to abuse his position as a journalist in order to assist the FBI. The minutes of Key's sentencing are presented below: Continue reading →

Putin Providing Material Support To Trump-Clinton Candidacy

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As the candidacies of Donald Trump-Clinton and Hilary Rodham-Clinton have begun facing struggles these past few week in their respective races to replace Hussein Bahamas as the president of the United States, Russian president Vladimir Putin has decided to give their campaigns a shot in the arm. Putins aid has come in the form of bringing national security back in mix of froth being fed into the social engineering hopper. For the past few days Russian SU-24 warplanes have been making simulated attack runs against the guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook. The warplanes have been making the passes without any visible armament and have reportedly come within 30 feet of the ship. A Russian KA-27 helicopter has even joined in the fun circling the Donald Cook several times. How much of an effect Putin's intervention in the remaining portion of the primary election process has remains to be seen.

FBI Director Comey Admits To Taping Over Webcam After Speech

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During a question and answer session following a speech at Kenyon College, FBI Director James Comey admitted he taped over his laptop's webcam to avoid being spied upon. Taping over laptop webcams is a popular though weak method for ensuring a computer can not visually spy on your person. The stronger and correct method to mitigate these concerns is physically disconnecting the laptop's web camera and its microphone. Depending on the level of concern about a computers integrity actual mitigations for privacy concerns may be applied all the way through actually airgapping a machine.

BitBet Auction Closes

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The auction to sell BitBet's non-cash assets has concluded with Znort987 offering the highest bid at 86 Bitcoin for the assets. The final hours of the auction saw a flurry of bidding activity that drove the final price nearly ten times higher than Saint Stanislav's 9 Bitcoins which was the high bid for much of the duration of the auction. Pete Dushenski was bidding actively before he ceded the contest of economic will to Znort987, and Dushenski further offered a statement on the matter after he surrendered the contest.

BitBet reciever David Francois stated to Qntra that he thinks the auction went pretty well. In his announcement of Znort987 as the auction winner Monsieur Francois stated that after payment is received he plans to publish settlement details within a few days and push the signed settlement payment to the Bitcoin network after the details have been available for public review.

MPEx Goes Private

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Your dividend payment for S.MPOE in total sum of 25000000000000 to a notional float of 500000000 has been issued on April 5, 2016, 5:02 pm. Feel free to publish this receipt to your shareholders.
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Today Mircea Popescu published MPEx's last statement as a public company and bought back publicly traded shares for the sum of 50,000 satoshis each. In the statement Mircea Popescu made it clear MPEx will continue to operate, list worthy companies, and generally remain committed to Bitcoin's success. Addressing fears that a regulatory intervention may have spurred the transition Popescu offered:

To assuage any possible concern : neither MPEx nor myself personally are currently embroiled in any sort of legal dispute with any sort of soi-dissant "regulator" in any jurisdiction. The notion that some fiat pretend-sovereign or other has anything to do with this measure is significantly less sensible than the notion that 17 Bitcoin and change is what caused the closure of Bitbet, as ridiculous as that notion may be. I have yet to meet the fiat government that's worth 17 Bitcoin and change.

The full statement is available on Trilema.

DoctorClu Pleads Out Leaving CMU Tor Attack Unlikely To Be Contested In Court

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DoctorClu, slave name Brian Farrell, had his guilty plea for a single count for distribution of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine formally accepted by a Federal Judge. By entering a guilty plea Farrell will be unable to send complaints about his prosecution through appellate courts keeping them from weighing in on the constitutionality of the collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and the FBI to overtly wreck the Tor Network. This supports the view commonly expressed on forums discussing darknet markets that DoctorClu is a coward. Meanwhile unchecked "law enforcement" agents in the United States are reflexively gunning down black males who merely take the fight against breast cancer seriously by carrying pink rifles to support the cause. DoctorClu is scheduled to be sentenced on June 3rd, 2016. His attorneys and the prosecution have already agreed to argue together the merits of an 8 year prison sentence and asset forfeiture for their client before the judge.

BitBet Receiver Issues 2nd Progress Report, Auction Closing April 6th

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David Francois acting as the receiver BitBet has issued his second progress report. Monsieur Francois has certified debts owed for bettor winnings, unresolved bets, zeroconf bets placed on propositions not processed by BitBet moderators, and his fee for undertaking the grim work of parting out BitBet. The current high bid for BitBet assets remains a signed 9 Bitcoin bid by Saint Stanislav. Monsieur Francois is closing the auction for BitBet's non-cash assets at the end of April 6th, 2016 or one hour after the highest bid has been bested by at least 1 Bitcoin, whichever comes later.