In an eloquent essay, Scottish-American historian Niall Ferguson argues that “We are living through a monetary revolution so multifaceted that few of us comprehend its full extent.” The technological transformation of the internet is driving this revolution. The pandemic of 2020 has accelerated it… Covid-19 has been good for Bitcoin and for cryptocurrency generally. First, the pandemic accelerated our advance into…
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71-Year-Old William Gibson Explores ‘Existing Level of Weirdness’ For New Dystopian SciFi Novel
71-year-old science fiction author William Gibson coined the word “cyberspace” in his 1984 novel Neuromancer. 36 years later he’s back with an even more dystopian future in his new novel Agency. But in a surprisingly candid interview in the Daily Beast, Gibson says he prefers watching emerging new technologies first because “To use it is to be changed by it; you’re…
South Africa, UK Acknowledge Mass Surveillance By Tapping Undersea Internet Cables
The South African government has been conducting mass surveillance on all communications in the country, reports Reclaim the Net:, citing a report from Privacy International as well as recently-revealed affidavits and other documents from former State Security Agency (SSA) director-general Arthur Fraser:
Interestingly, the mass surveillance has been happening since 2008… The surveillance was supposedly designed to cover information about organized crime…
Dreams of Offshore Servers Haunt The Ocean-Based Micronation of ‘Sealand’
Late Christmas Eve, 1966, a retired British army major named Paddy Roy Bates piloted a motorboat seven miles off the coast of England to an abandoned anti-aircraft platform “and declared it conquered,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ian Urbina. Bates used it as a pirate radio station, sometimes spending several months there while living on tins of corned beef, rice pudding, flour,…
Why Is Slack Retaining Everyone’s Chat History?
The associate director of research at the Electronic Frontier Foundation published a new warning in the Opinion section of the New York Times this week, calling Slack the only unicorn going public this year “that has admitted it is at risk for nation-state attacks” and saying there’s a simple way to minimize risk — that Slack has so far refused to…
Why the FBI requires advanced forensic accounting training
When you think about the FBI, you might imagine stereotypical “feds” from movies busting down doors and arresting dangerous mobsters. You might also imagine agents infiltrating terrorist organizations in daring undercover operations. One thing that might not come to mind: accountants! In truth, accountants with specialized expertise have played a central role in the FBI’s […]
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