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[TD]The Bitcoin Spy Operation[/TD]
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[TD]"I have a really silly question," an academic specializing in computer security told me via email not long ago: Might the archive of files supplied by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden contain material relating to bitcoin?
I handed the query off to Westley Hennigh-Palermo, a software engineer on The Intercept's research team, who was surprised to quickly find Snowden documents that showed the NSA had targeted users of the cryptocurrency and hinted it had successfully unmasked some. The only problem was figuring out how this was accomplished. Details were scattered across many documents and behind code names like OAKSTAR and MONKEYROCKET.
Wes, soon joined by tech reporter Sam Biddle, figured out that the NSA was exploiting an overseas cable tap and what it called a "non-Western internet anonymization service" and for some reason, the agency sometimes discussed all this with a corporation in Virginia. Sam outlined the discoveries in a story, sending waves through the bitcoin community.[/TD]
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[TD]"I have a really silly question," an academic specializing in computer security told me via email not long ago: Might the archive of files supplied by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden contain material relating to bitcoin?
I handed the query off to Westley Hennigh-Palermo, a software engineer on The Intercept's research team, who was surprised to quickly find Snowden documents that showed the NSA had targeted users of the cryptocurrency and hinted it had successfully unmasked some. The only problem was figuring out how this was accomplished. Details were scattered across many documents and behind code names like OAKSTAR and MONKEYROCKET.
Wes, soon joined by tech reporter Sam Biddle, figured out that the NSA was exploiting an overseas cable tap and what it called a "non-Western internet anonymization service" and for some reason, the agency sometimes discussed all this with a corporation in Virginia. Sam outlined the discoveries in a story, sending waves through the bitcoin community.[/TD]
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"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass