Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday March 27 2018, @08:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-cause-you're-paranoid... dept.

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.

Archived: https://archive.fo/z5zzo


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 27 2018, @09:52PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 27 2018, @09:52PM (#659172) Journal

    they've got all the time in the world to trawl through that and taint more and more wallets.

    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
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2