The NSA Worked to "Track Down" Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal
Internet paranoiacs drawn to Bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, controversial digital currency. Increasingly popular among get-rich-quick speculators, Bitcoin started out as a high-minded project to make financial transactions public and mathematically verifiable - while also offering discretion. Governments, with a vested interest in controlling how money moves, would, some of Bitcoin's fierce advocates believed, naturally try and thwart the coming techno-libertarian financial order.
It turns out the conspiracy theorists were onto something.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @02:37PM (1 child)
Also a nice one:
Psychiatrist: "Do you sometimes hear voices, although nobody is around?"
Patient: "Yes."
Psychiatrist: "In which situations does that happen?"
Patient: "When listening to the radio, watching TV or talking on the phone."
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:43PM
As opposed to this classic reaction to a Rorschach test:
Psych: "And what does this make you think of?"
Patient: "Sex"
Psych: "And this one, what does this make you think of?"
Patient: "Sex"
Psych: "And this one?"
Patient: "Umm, sex"
Psych: "You're obsessed with sex!"
Patient: "No, you're the one showing me Penthouse instead of a bunch of random-looking inkblots!"
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.