Tag: tor
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#MorningMonarchy: March 7, 2017
Vault 7 leaks, doomsday scenarios and smart condoms + this day in history w/Stanley Kubrick’s death and our song of the day by Alt J on your Morning Monarchy for March 7, 2017.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Honey Onions, Dumb Bulb, 3D Finger (Audio)
Tor nodes found spying on users; spying smart bulbs can be hacked; and police 3D print a dead man’s finger to unlock his fondleslab.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Police 3D Print Dead Man’s Finger to Unlock His Phone (Video)
Tor nodes found spying on users; spying smart bulbs can be hacked; and police 3D print a dead man’s finger to unlock his fondleslab.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 31, 2016
Floppy nukes, professional trolls and phone jamming + this day in history w/”The Karnival Kid” and our song of the day by Capyac on your Morning Monarchy for May 31, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 24, 2016
Invisibility cloaks, Olympic meteors and BangFit + this day in history w/the first Eurovision contest and our song of the day by Adia Victoria on your Morning Monarchy for May 24, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 3, 2016
Spying billboards, man machine and militarizing the moon + this day in history w/first spam emails and our song of the day by Africaine 808 on your Morning Monarchy for May 3, 2016.
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Feds Doled Out Millions Towards #Tor Online Anonymity Tools
from RT.com: The National Security Agency may be working to crack the anonymous Tor browser, but the US government actually donated close to $2 million to the project in 2013. In fact, the large majority of the money gifted to the Tor Project has its origins in the State Department and the Department of Defense.…
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Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charged With Laundering $1 Million Through Silk Road
from wired.com: The CEO of Bitcoin exchanger BitInstant has been arrested and charged with money laundering over allegations that he and another man sold more than $1 million in Bitcoins to buyers and sellers of drugs on the underground drug site Silk Road. Charlie Shrem (pictured), 24, who ran BitInstant out of New York, is…
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Avoiding Sochi Snoopers: Using Tor, Common Sense and Nail Polish to Prevent Russian Authorities Spying on Journalists
from ibtimes.co.uk: The Russian authorities are planning to monitor the online activity of every athlete, organiser and journalist during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which begin later this week. Last year Russian prime minister Dimitry Medvedev signed into law a decree which, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, authorises the government to “collect telephone…
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One Month After Government Shutdown, Silk Road 2.0 Launches
from vocativ.com: The underground black market is back! Meanwhile, the government admits its “whack-a-mole” strategy failed. Last week, it was reported that the mysterious Dread Pirate Roberts II was planning on resurrecting Silk Road—the underground black market shut down by the FBI in October. Today the anonymous founder made good on his promise. The site—which…
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NSA & GCHQ target Tor anonymity network
from theguardian.com: The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself. Top-secret NSA documents, disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveal that the agency’s current successes against…
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FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
from wired.com: It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors. Freedom Hosting’s operator, Eric Eoin Marques, had rented the servers…