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: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 27 2018, @09:52PM
Heh, excluding the wrench attack, until they finish I might be dead after a long fruitful life in an environment with blackjack and hookers.
I'm sure my historians will be delighted of their effort.
Security is a trade-off between the cost of protection vs the cost of the attacker breaking that protection. Even no perfect security can exist, good-enough security may serve the purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford