Category Archives: Security

Bitcoin Foundation Co-Chairs Issue Statement On Signatures In Blockchain

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Bitcoin Foundation co-chairs ben_vulpes and mod6 today posted signed statements affirming that the Bitcoin blockchain as an immutable cryptographic record and the foundation's commitment to continue maintaining a reference Bitcoin client. They make a specify point of emphasizing that actual Bitcoin clients can verify the entire blockchain including transaction signatures during initial sync. The emphasis on verifying transaction signatures in the blockchain comes as a few troublemakers have proposed a "soft" fork which would replace transaction signatures in blocks with links to the signatures which would be held in a separate data structure off of the blockchain. The controversial fork proposal received a swift condemnation from MPEx proprietor Mircea Popescu. While Popescu's condemnation received some degree of social media attention it has so far been ignored by most news outlets in favor of Hoaxtoshi.

The complete statements with GPG signatures are available below: Continue reading →

Missouri Phone Purchases Put Police On Edge

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Several large purchases of prepaid cellular phones at central and south western Missouri Walmart stores have put local police on edge and attracted the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (archived). In the United States prepaid cellular phones are one of the most popular affordable ways for lower income population to receive phone service. Macon county sheriff's department detective Curt Glover offered: Continue reading →

Craig Steven Wright Raided By Australian Police

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Hours after Wired and Gizmodo reported on the same day that Craig Steven Wright is their best guess for a likely Satoshi Nakamoto, Australian Federal Police began reportedly began raiding residences and businesses associated with Wright (archived). Mainstream media are parroting police assertions that the raids are unconnected with the possibility Wright may be Nakamoto but instead related to Australian Taxation Office matters. Given the timing of the raid however it is exceedingly likely police, the tax office, and other agents of fiat when reading the recent speculation did as a point of fact become aroused on rumors of Satoshi's hoard. Continue reading →

Microsoft Leaks XBox Live Private Key

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Today Microsoft issued a security advisory announcing that they have disclosed a TLS/SSL private key associated with the domain xboxlive.com today (archived). The private key corresponds to a wildcard certificate which allows it to be used to act as xboxlive.com and any of its subdomains. This lapse by the house that Bill Gates built comes as Donald Trump proposes the United States consult with Bill Gates to understand how the internet works so that it can be closed up.

Trump Proposes "Closing Up the Internet"

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Bankruptcy artist, likely payment fraudster, and aspiring fiat politician Donald Trump has proposed "Closing up the Internet" in order to advance United States interests (archived). On this point Trump joins the current United States chief executive fraudster President Hussein Bahamas in using a hawkish tone when discussing the increasing impotence of the United States government with respect to the internet. In the mainstream press this was overshadowed a previous comment by proposing border restrictions. Continue reading →

Sound Money > Everything Else You Got

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Find below notarized a copy1 of the sentencing memorandum filed with the SOPS on behalf of Shaun W. Bridges, yet another (recall DEA agent Carl Mark Force IV ?) USG agent that stole as much Bitcoin as he could the very second he could steal any Bitcoin whatsoever. Continue reading →

  1. With special thanks to asciilifeform! ↩

RBG Black Rebel Sentenced For Tweeting Link And Boosting Website Traffic

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Alleged Rebel But Gangster Black Rebels member Justin Payne was sentenced to 12 months in prison on a misdemeanor computer tampering charge for tweeting a link to the St. Louis County Police  Association website which caused the site to go down as it was unequipped to handle the traffic being tweeted by the RBG Black Rebels brings. Prosecutors, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the police officer's union, and apparently even Payne's own lawyer believed this act constituted a "cyber attack" even though legitimate traffic through an effect once known as "Slashdotting" is often capable of taking down poorly provisioned websites. Payne faces a further 18 month in prison for a felony "possession of an unregistered destructive device" charge related to a Molotov cocktail allegedly found in Payne's vehicle when he was arrested at his place of employment the Veterans Affairs Records Management Center. Local and mainstream outlets have been alternatively referring to Payne's Molotov cocktail as a "fire bomb" and "improvised incendiary device" presumably to boost their own profiles since #terrorism seems to be trending in the media.

F2Pool Lashes Out When Called Out For SPV Mining

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Discus FishLate last week some minor drama occurred on the old forum when a certain large SPV mining pool which has caused headaches for Bitcoin's network stability before had some of their IP addresses published publicly.

Bitcointalk user Kano revealed that a part of the SPV mining process used by F2Pool (nee. Discus Fish) and likely others involves connecting miners to other pools in order to more rapidly detect block changes and generate an empty block header to feed to their miners sooner than they could otherwise. The connected listening "miners" at least as implemented by F2Pool at the time of this outing did not actually mine on the connected pools making their detection easier. Continue reading →

United States Revives Export-Import Bank

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The United States Congress has passed and President Hussein Bahamas has signed a reauthorization for the United States Export-Import bank. The United States Export-Import bank as previously mentioned on Qntra acts as an open ended subsidy for Boeing and select other businesses servicing the interests of the socialist United States Government. The reauthorization happened the same day the director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation acknowledged an otherwise routine mass shooting even two days earlier had allegedly been carried out by a wedded couple with ties to ISIS.

Italy Misses Terrorists Hits Gamers

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After hilarious reports came out following the Friday the 13th Paris attacks that the Playstation home gaming console was involved in terrorist planning and coordination efforts, Italian Minister of Justice and founding member of the Italian Democratic Party Andrea Orlando has announced (archived) that one hundred and fifty million Euros are to be allocated to the increased surveillance and monitoring of digital communications in general and the Playstation system in particular. More credible reports indicate that the attacks were planned using plaintext SMS. Continue reading →