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Because of greed. There is more money he can milk, severance if hes fired, and a huge salary. Not like being CEO is very difficult. You have underlings for everything all you do is say yes/no in meetings and play golf with other CEOs. You have hundreds of managers beneath you for delegating layoffs just send them an email to can half the staff and your days work is done, collect your giant bonus
LR does not operate an exchange either, though I suspect exchangezone was run by them. Lr contracted that out much like how bitcoin (and soon ripple) have gateways into the system to buy in.
This is why Satoshi took careful measures to ensure he stayed anonymous. If he was still around he would be in jail right beside this guy. LR actually did a lot of KYC compliance problem is they allowed Americans to use the system which means inevitable indictment. Cgold is probably next if the operators are stupid enough to travel to a country with extradition.
There will also be a mass bitcoin arrest eventually to crack down on everybody operating without an MSB, like extraditing Euro exchange operators who do biz with Americans. Because of decentralization Bitcoin will survive any crackdown
In my country theres a foreign worker scam that allows Indian companies to fly in the worst IT staff complete with fake resumes and pays them $6/hr for a year to screw up their website with dozens of SSL certs and slow security theatre that pretends to do something but is just a little flash to watch while you wait forever to load their junk software.
major banks here all made at least a trillion in profit last year but couldnt be arsed to pay for legit IT staff. now we all suffer paying tax dollars to track down all these thieves who easily fraud their faces off with the terribad security and poor code quality
This is just one of many cashout crews at the bottom of the crime pyramid that got caught. The masterminds are prob in Russia/Ukraine and wont be extradited so long as they arent stupid enough to go to a country on vacation that has extradition treaty with the US or they will find themselves getting kidnapped by feds to stand trial in the US, for a middle east bank heist because USA polices the world and your taxpayers cover the millions it will cost in flights and court fees/investigation
valve said last yr they would start porting to linux to avoid microsoft 8 store plans where they want to restrict software sales to the "microsoft app store" and shave 20% fees from all sales. this would destroy the steam delivery model so makes sense they are diversifying
Nobody remembers the Linode bitcoin "hack" where it was assumed by bitcointalk that an admin was looting accounts? Im surprised anybody still uses them.
i had to install a testing snapshot May 4 because wasn't sure when they were releasing stable wheezy, and needed it immediately.
only package that broke the next day after full dist-update was "less" which for some reason will not co-exist with man-db. that was it though everything else updated fine
Theo de raadt already blasted Redhat and Ubuntu for instantly compromising and submitting to microsoft. Linux foundation non resistance makes no sense to me either since a lot of people who sit on the board are direct competitors to M$ you'd think they would want to save their companies from being at their mercy.
I'm waiting for when cloud o/s takes over that scans for pirate software/dissident behaviour or thought crime, and it becomes illegal to run your own operating system. There will be a Silk Road for computer hardware and guy's peddling BSD installs in dark alleys.
Bitcoin transactions are visible/traceable, but doesn't mean you can match txn to identities.
If there is one address in the middle of you paying somebody, and that address was generated either offline or through Tor, there's no way to prove you own that address unless somebody can extract the private keys from your seized hardware and match it up to the public address.
Transactions don't prove anything, anyways. If you sell on localbitcoins or IRC, you have no idea that the anon guy who showed up to buy them with untraceable cash isn't directly 3rd party funding his Silk Rd account. If you look at the blockchain it would appear I paid into SR directly however I sold coins to some random guy I'll never see again, who's contact info I also don't have. Since I sell under my countries $10k cash transaction limit I don't need to take ID or retain contact info. Tracing that transaction proves nothing.
I also can't recall any of the major bitcoin heists being recovered. Only one exchange (mtgox) has a history of holding transactions for ID if they appear to be stolen coins, and they've only done it twice: first time was cleared up with ID, second time they're still holding the coins (bitcoinica/linode theft). Every other bitcoin heist you've heard of through the years the trace leads to nowhere.
Oh noes, then they get a Tor exit node where you contacted them on IRC or Bitcointalk forums, or a JonDonym free proxy you will never use again
Better way to do this:
Go on localbitcoins and find people who mail cash for bitcoins, or find somebody on IRC to do it.
Sell them bitcoins, have them mail the cash to SDF for your payment. Now you avoid all the problems of physically mailing something from where you live. It's actually common for people to ask for single US bills in the mail too, for collecting.
I also would edit Torrc file to use semi trusted exit nodes from torservers.net so you aren't using a malicious exit node.
It would be better to set up your own Tor2web service anonymously, then only have it host your hidden service.
Tor2web and the other gateways will remove service to a hidden service if they receive DMCA or other complaints/takedown notices so if your hidden server was about how you haxx0red the government they would have it shut down, unless of course you hosted in Russia or Egypt where they wouldn't care about western govt.
Instead you can buy virtual visa with bitcoins, and then you aren't on camera buying a prepaid card. Even better use bitcoins for hosting payment directly and avoid credit cards completely.
You can also find any Russian host you wish, then plug in Bitcoins to a Russian exchange such at btc-e and then withdraw straight to their WMZ account to fund your hosting
You can always just buy hosting in Russia with bitcoins and use ssh through Tor to set it up. Russia doesn't care about names, email addresses or anything else.
I recall a few Iceland hosting services that do the same. As long as you aren't doing something incredibly illegal they won't care what you are hosting
OpenBSD will run on almost everything, just the kernel does not contain binary blobs in order to support absolutely everything. You can if you want download non free firmware and install it yourself painlessly if the installer doesn't automagically find your drivers. I have yet to find a machine where I've had to do this though, since I usually buy no-name Taiwanese hardware which is always supported by *BSD because the manufacturers give out hardware documentation to them
"All softraid(4) boot(8) support is now enabled by default, including support for booting from crypto volumes." awesome.
I also use OpenBSD for embedded work, in fact I think everybody is using it for embedded systems. You can strip the kernel down to a tiny install, run securelevel 2 and chflags to prevent any tampering from console.
Al Qaeda and similar militants use potassium chlorate and sulfur for bomb and IED making. I don't see how the fertilizer blockade on those countries has made any difference in the amount of deadly explosions that happen in Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria on a weekly basis.
a recruiter will get all their information including direct contact email when they respond to the fake qualified resume the recruiter submitted, then the recruiter harasses the hiring manager(s) directly on linkedin and email, or sells that information to their applicants, or other recruiters.
Or they bait and switch, saying that person is no longer available and give a second resume, knowing they have full attention of whoever is hiring. Or they would find out their phone numbers and harass them with endless calls.
Ubuntu for desktop is most likely going to disappear. Seems they are moving to tablets and android clones.
As for gaming they are now starting to release linux versions, well at least Steam and Blizzard are.
I am a highschool dropout who got a GED while in prison for a hacking charge, slacked through community college to bring up my pre-calculus to university level, transferred to university and slacked through that as well.
I did not do the full time course load where you must be disciplined to handle 30+ credits per year therefore require extreme military like focus on your studies. I was doing half that sometimes less, while working on days off or getting wasted in the campus bar with the student radio society.
It was definitely lol'd at but was the only film I can remember that showed how overzealous and paranoid the feds were cracking down on kids just looking for information.
A friend of mine was arrested then for owning the cellular hackers bible which was considered forbidden knowledge. Crazy how far we've come now, you now longer have to go through an elaborate scam to social engineer a telecom employee just to get some basic information on how a POTS works.
Problem is he used bitcoins for pure speculation and "investment". I've used it since 2011 to take online payments for software, then turn around and either cash immediately to avoid price fluctuations or I spend it on hosting, hardware, and lately even stuff off Amazon with btc->amazon credits.
I've never kept and held bitcoins nor do I support any investment scheming like this guy. To me bitcoin is an excellent decentralized money transfer system which is what the media should be talking about instead of whatever profiteering speculators are doing.
I can sell fully customized ROMs now, with the phone handsets and full service and not worry about credit card fraud. I pay almost no fees cashing it to fiat either by using localbitcoins.
I was around and active at that time, reading T-Filez, phrack and using those giant phreaker and hacker chatrooms. I did go to a club in NYC that was very similar to the one in the movie which were freq by Patrick K Kroupa and Corrupt, plus other hackers before they threw me out for being underage.
I seem to remember in the film the two guys Razor and Blade who had that pirate broadcast 'Hack the planet' actually existed as well.
They do move around, and are typically arrested and ticketed by police for doing so. If you were to move to a suburban area a resident would complain about the hobo pushing a shopping cart and squatting in the woods so you would find yourself being given a "starlight tour" which is when the police drive you to the middle of nowhere and kick you out of the vehicle at 2:00am.
You can buy a new dota key for around 2 euros if you get stuck in that pool. Jealous noobs are also flagging really good players to get rid of them too, plenty of threads on people who got stuck in the low priority pool for being too good.
You can rent miners on the bitcoin network to use their pooled hashrate to break passwords, same with moxie's service cloudcracker.com
People often sell master keys on ebay and other sites and upload photos of the key. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/master_keys.ht...
No hackers the movie? No zerocool? No emmanuel goldstein on his rollerblades in that terribad NYC nightclub (which sort of actually did exist).
The extreme poor area I lived in was also full of drug addicts who spent all night going through trash bins and cleaning out anything of value to support their habit, so if your plan is to mine for recycled bottles and cans to return then you're in for a surprise when you find out that hustle has already been cornered by violent drug addicts and alcoholics who won't let you near their garbage 'turf'.
They also rob each other when they walk out of the recycling depot with cash in their pocket. Since you live in an alley you don't have security