On Reddit Shapeshift.io's Erik Voorhees announced that the cryptocoin exchange had been infiltrated by attackers and its infrastructure compromised. In the announcement Voorhees states that no customer funds were lost because they don't hold any, but it is uncertain if the service had an operating "hot wallet" to take. Given the severity of the breach the service has been taken offline and Voorhees insists that customer funds will be returned and Shapeshift will be rebuilt in a new environment before resuming service.
Weak RNG Assists Man's Lottery Fortune
Iowa prosecutors have recently uncovered evidence that a former computer security worker modified a RNG used to pick numbers for several State lotteries. Eddie Raymond Tipton has already been tried and convicted on two counts of fraud, but officials only recently uncovered the manner in which he was able to produce the winning numbers for six different drawings worth millions between 2005-2011.
Investigators found that Tipton introduced a rootkit that used specially crafted DLL's to redirect drawings based on specific conditions, using an algorithm he could easily solve. ArsTechnica reported that it was unclear "if officials have tightened the requirements to make future tampering harder" by trashing all their Microsoft computers and using a more secure Linux-based distribution instead.
Furry Perverts Hack Radio Stations To Evangelize Their Filth
A number of radio stations in the United States have had their regular programming interrupted by hackers and instead were made to broadcast the erotic material of a particularly noxious species of pervert (archived). The perverts alternately know as Furries or FurFags have an obsession with fucking and being fucked while wearing animal themed costumes of construction similar to those worn by sports team mascots. The freaks managed to hijack radio station transmitters connected to the internet to spread their filth. The furfag menace draws members from all three genders: female, male, and mayo. Continue reading
BitBet Auction Closes
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.
Open Sourced Vulnerability Database Closes, Cites More People Taking Their Free Goods Than Giving Them Free Goods
Operators of the Open Source Vulnerability Database announced they are closing up shop. The OSVDB was a project that freely offered information about various software vulnerabilities to all comers. Stating their current intentions to close the operators of the OSVDB complained that too much taking of their freely given information was happening. Apparently when they were collecting and giving away information freely to anyone they actually meant to do something other than actually give it away for free.
MPEx Goes Private
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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
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.
Raptor Engineering Laments Dire State Of x86 And CPU Industry At Large
Today Timothy Pearson of Raptor Engineering issue a dire lamentation to the Free Software Foundation Europe mailing list asking:
Are you willing to continue to use FOSS software inside the ever-shrinking x86 "software jail", or are you possibly willing to give up some cost or performance advantages in order to retain full control of the software running on your hardware?
BitBet Receiver Issues 2nd Progress Report, Auction Closing April 6th
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.
20th Anniversary Of Kaczynski's Capture Today
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the capture of noted mathematician and widely published philosopher of technology Theodore Kaczynski by forces of the United States regime in Washington, DC. Theodore Kaczynski is also widely suspected to have been forcefully drugged and violated as a part of the CIA's MKULTRA program as an undergraduate at Harvard. In a rare feat for any author Kaczynski managed to get a 34 kiloword essay titled Industrial Society and Its Future published in print in the September 19th, 1995 editions of the New York Times and Washington Post in its entirety.1 After a political show trial the regime in Washington DC had locked Kaczynki up at their Florence, Colorado super maximum security prison where he remains a political prisoner.
The full text of Industrial Society and Its Future is reproduced below: Continue reading
This was before the Internet had emboldened both of those publications to adopt their present habit of routinely publishing whatever long for slop they can get their hands on. ↩