Peter Todd
Applied Cryptography Consultant (what the cool kids call 'blockchain tech')
PGP: 0x7FAB114267E4FA04, [email protected]
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Met bosses knew of relationship deception by spy Mark Kennedy
Chiefs admit managers allowed police spy’s relationship with Kate Wilson to continue
Peter Todd
When I say "the bad guys" I'm also referring to organizations such as the Metropolitan police
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Press release: UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International
Thames House, Offices of MI5. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Manyverse
Manyverse
Peter Todd
That feeling when you accidentally a blockchain.
(Source: manyver.se) pic.twitter.com/5ln4khTb9T
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Why I’m done with Chrome
This blog is mainly reserved for cryptography, and I try to avoid filling it with random “someone is wrong on the Internet” posts. After all, that’s what Twitter is for! But from …
Peter Todd
I currently use Firefox on @QubesOS disposable VMs. But if I was using Chrome, I'd stop.
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OpenPGP Keyservers Now Store 'Irremovable' Torrent Magnet Links
BitTorrent has proven to be an ideal tool for pirates. The protocol's decentralized nature makes it impossible to interfere with transfers between users. Torrent sites and indexes are the only weak link in the chain, but there are novel solutions to...
NCIX DATABREACH
The following editorial will take you inside the dark world of data brokering, as we expose the backroom deals in which fifteen years of customer data from defunct Canadian retailer NCIX were sold.
Sep. 22, 2018. What's new
MINERVA-II1: Successful image capture, landing on Ryugu and hop!
Roughtime: Securing Time with Digital Signatures
When you visit a secure website, it offers you a TLS certificate that asserts its identity. Every certificate has an expiration date, and when it’s passed due, it is no longer valid.
Peter Todd
Really cool: blog.cloudflare.com/roughtime/
Roughtime replaces NTP with a *timestamping* scheme based on merkle trees. Not quite as auditable as @Guardtime or @OpenTimestamps, but it's a very interesting intermediate level of security.
Definitely need to add Roughtime to OTS now. :)
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600 Microseconds - How CVE-2018-17144 was discovered • r/btc
And there we go - a bug :) I somehow fat-fingered away the first paragraph in the medium post. Fixed. EDIT: Once more, a mess up again. My...
Minister questioned about 96 councillors in Leeds-Grenville
Municipal Affairs Minster was asked why his riding, Leeds-Grenville in eastern Ontario, has 96 councillors for some 70,000 people. Under the province’s new bill, Toronto will have one councillor for 110,000 residents.
Teens Think They Shouldn’t Have to Speak in Front of the Class
Some students say in-class presentations discriminate against those with anxiety and are demanding alternative options.
Vanished China star gets 0% 'goodness' rating
Fan Bingbing, a film star not seen in more than two months, is ranked last in a report judging A-listers.
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
Peter Todd
Normally I'd tweet how this isn't a good use-case for @opentimestamps, because you could timestamp multiple articles.
But because Trump insiders aren't in the habit of tweeting 256 bit hex digests your k-anonymity set will be too small for a commitment.
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A Rust+WebAssembly framework for client-side web apps
Introducing Yew, a Rust framework inspired by Elm & React for creating WebAssembly-based web frontends!
Chaincode Lightning Applications Residency – Chaincode Labs
Chaincode is proud to announce a Lightning applications residency program, taking place in New York, Oct 22–26 2018!
Journalism in the Age of the Populist Right
Yesterday, Steve Bannon was dropped from a headliner at the New Yorker’s yearly ideas festival after a backlash from readers, potential audience members and other speakers who were also slated to attend. Bannon was headlining the festival, with Jim...
Alphabet’s Chairman on Government, China and Fake News
John L. Hennessy talks about the future that Silicon Valley is creating, the rise of employee activism and how Google should address censorship.