Monthly Archives: July 2017

Your Mailman Is a Drug Dealer. He Just Doesn’t Know It. – WNYC

Posted: July 20, 2017 at 2:49 am

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The Dark Web conjures images of gothic fonts and black backgrounds, like a metal fans MySpace page circa 2001. But this section of the internet looks surprisingly normal. Accessible only through the TOR browser, there are Google-style search engines and Amazon-style marketplaces. Except what theyre selling are mostly illegal thingsstolen passports, hacked account numbers, and drugs. A lot of drugs.

This week, we stress out WNYCS IT department and venture onto the Dark Web. Where you can get heroin, fentanyl, or oxycontin shipped right to your door via USPS. And we talk to Nick Bilton, author of American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, about how Libertarian philosophy and tech-bro hubris combined to spark an online drug revolutionand an opioid crisis.

Andthe Dark Web community is starting to recognize the role they're playing. Since we recorded this episode, Hansa Market - the verysite we visit in the show - has banned the sale of fentanyl, according to the New York Times.

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Want porn? Prove your age (or get a VPN) Naked Security – Naked Security

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If all goes to plan, from April 2018 anyone in the UK visiting a website deemed pornographic will be asked to verify that they are aged 18 or over before they can proceed.

The plan, proposed as part of the Digital Economy Act in 2016, was formally commenced this weekby the Minister of State for Digital and Culture, Matt Hancock, who offered surprisingly scant detail on its implementation in comments made to a newspaper website.

It seems likely that the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) will be empowered to decide what constitutes a pornographic website. As regulator it will also will be given the power to fine publishers up to 250,000 ($325,000) for failing to impose verification, on pain of being blocklisted by local ISPs.

Hancock summed up the Acts purpose:

All this means that while we can enjoy the freedom of the web, the UK will have the most robust internet child protection measures of any country in the world.

With anti-censorship and privacy groups up in arms, and network engineers scratching their heads, worries that the law will have unintended consequences are surfacing too.

At its heart is the age verification process, which it seems will involve asking for credit card numbers. This means that people will have to start trusting their personal data to websites whose security they know little about, in situations where their concerns about privacy and anonymity may be higher than usual.

Its not yet clear whether verification will happen through a single provider or on every site but wherever the datas kept it will surely be a tempting target for hackers and extortionists.Pornography publishers dont have a pristine reputation for data security as a number of recent breaches show.

There are also concerns that the move will encourage a market in stolen credit cards re-purposed to access porn sites.

The vast majority of publishers arent in the UK which means that enforcing UK Data Protection (DPA) to prevent (or prosecute) a data breach looks a naive hope.

I expect people not least millions of adults who dont have a credit card to turn to VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) or Torto bypass verification. Both tools allow users to hide their IP address and appear to be in countries other than the UK.

The assumption is, presumably, that children either wont want to do this or wont be able to. Good VPNs cost money and paying for them often requires access to a credit card.

Technology has a habit of becoming commoditised over time though. The Tor browser is free and so is Opera, a web browser that comes witha free, integrated proxy-based VPN (i.e. securing only browser traffic) on desktop and mobile. Googles Wi-Fi Assistant builds the same into Android for its own handsets connecting through public hotspots in the US.

There is another cost to using a VPN though, even a free one: with all your browser traffic flowing through it you end up sharing far more with your VPN provider than you ever do with any individual site. Youd better choose one you trust.

By my reckoning it would only take a modest expansion of free VPNs in the coming years to send the UK Digital Economy Act back to square one.

Would the Government then attempt to filter or legislate against VPNs too? The only government to do that currently on any scale is China, a dismal example for a country such as the UK to follow. Going that far would risk a collapse in support for any legislation.

Meanwhile, pornographic content distributed via social media appears to be a grey area. People access this from within each platform and its not clear whether companies would be asked to apply parallel controls.

What is clear is that the UK wants to join a growing list of countries imposing controls on Internet content, including pornography. Campaigners fret that this is really a potential gateway to the eventual imposition of censorship on other kinds of content.

If it is, future governments might one day rue the day. Evasion will grow, as could adult resentment. Telling people what they can and cant view tends to end in tears.

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Morgan Stanley Ex-CEO to Launch Cryptocurrency Game-Changer – Investopedia

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While the movement from traditional banking and financial institutions to cryptocurrency investments has been slow for some, others have been biding their time and waiting for the appropriate moment to make the switch. According to a recent report by Coin Telegraph, John Mack, the former Chief Executive Officer for Morgan Stanley, is in the latter category. Mack is reportedly preparing to enter the cryptocurrency game and is looking to launch an ICO at some point later in the year. Why would Mack be interested in joining cryptocurrency investors in the hottest new trend?

Mack's project at this time is Omega One, a platform which he says "is going to be transformative because it benefits the entire ecosystem--making crypto assets cheaper and easier to access," according to the report. Mack claims that he has been following and investing in digital currencies for several years, and he feels that Omega One is uniquely prepared to transform the industry. His investments in the startup were reportedly made via Venture One, a portfolio company which he backs privately. The goal of Omega One seems to be to push digital currencies into broader public view, making them more available and attractive to potential investors. Mack is currently the sole investor in this project, although his status as a finance legend will likely draw in other interest as time goes on.

According to Alex Gordon-Brander of Omega One, his company provides "the bridge between traditional capital markets and the crypto markets." Omega One, he says, "will provide everything from balance sheet intermediation and a trusted counterparty." He points to the "very first signs of institutional adoption of crypto markets" as a sign that his company has an interested and eager audience, as well as room in which to make an impact.

Analysts at Coin Telegraph suggest that Mack's move into the cryptocurrency space has been strategically timed, as the cryptocurrency market itself has grown and matured significantly over the past year and a half. With a clear sign that institutional investors are interested in entering the field, there remains a bit of mystery as to how these investors could best make use of their assets. This is where a company like Omega One could come in, or at least that's what Mack and the company's leaders hope. Regulation and education regarding the digital currency world are some of the largest barriers at this point. Experienced financial professionals like Mack may hope that their background in trading securities and assets of all kinds will allow them the benefit of being able to learn about and improve upon the way that cryptocurrencies are bought and sold, too.

Omega One will reportedly offer clients the opportunity to hold native tokens. It aims to launch via an ICO at some point later this year, after August and before December.

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Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin Retains Gains as Hard Fork Fears Recede – DailyFX

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- Recent cryptocurrency losses have been pulled back.

- Volatility remains until new proposals come into force.

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Fears that blockchain may split into two, creating two different bitcoins (BTC), have lessened in the past two days as bitcoin miners have begun to support a new bitcoin improvement proposal (BIP) that would help solve the long-running scaling problems. The proposal BIP 91, would introduce SegWit2X to the blockchain to help speed up the transaction time from the current limit of 1 megabyte every 10 minutes. According to many in the industry, BIP 91 would make implementation of SegWit2X less risky and would decrease the probability of a blockchain split (hard fork).

Over the past couple of days, bitcoin miners have begun signalling support for BIP 91 by adding a piece of code to each new block transaction. If the required 80% support is reached before August 1, the new protocol would be locked-in, lessening the chances of a hard fork. The activation window is 336 blocks and if the 80% target is hit, BIP 91 locks-in and after another 336 blocks are mined it becomes activated.

The latest signalling rate is seen just under 80% of the last 144 blocks mined with several of the largest BTC miners already showing their support for the new proposal, including AntPool, BitClub, Bixin, BTC.com and BitFury.

With the chances of a blockchain split lessening, the price of BTC and most other digital currencies have recovered from Sundays heavy sell-off. The future though may be less certain with the recent volatility underscoring the need for cryptocurrency traders to tread carefully in the weeks ahead. The chart below shows BTC still trading below its 100-day ema with a potential resistance level around $2419.

Chart: Bitcoin Four Hour Timeframe (June 14 - July 19, 2017)

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Ether (ETH) in the meantime has seen even sharper swings than peer bitcoin slumping from $225 on Sunday to a $137 low before rebounding to trade over $257 late Tuesday.

Chart: Ether Three Hour Chart (July 7 July 19, 2017)

Chart by TradingView.

Ethereum however, may soon come under increasing State regulation, over the recent surge in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), the cryptocurrency markets equivalent of traditional equity Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).

Market Moves/Capitalizations July 14, 2017.

Cryptocurrency

Price/Change%

Market Cap

BITCOIN

$2307 -0.94%

$37.971bn

ETHEREUM

$221.4 +9.5%

$20.68bn

RIPPLE

$0.176 -3.21%

$6.765bn

LITECOIN

$41.93 -4.84%

$2.183bn

ETHEREUM CLASSIC

$15.45 -2.03%

$1.448bn

--- Written by Nick Cawley, Analyst

To contact Nick, email him at nicholas.cawley@ig.com

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Governor of Austrian Central Bank Advises Cryptocurrency Caution … – ETHNews

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Governor of the Austrian Central Bank Ewald Nowotny warned users about the speculative nature of virtual currency. Nowotny also serves as a member of the governing council of the European Central Bank (ECB).

On July 19, governor of the Austrian Central Bank (German: Oesterreichische Nationalbank) Ewald Nowotny warned against cryptocurrency usage in an interview with newspaper Kleine Zeitung. Nowotny worries that the general public fails to grasp the potential psycho-social ramifications of a virtual currency correction. When asked about Japans recognition of bitcoin as a means of payment, Nowotny expressed his reservations.

Bitcoin is not a currency, he said. Bitcoin lacks the one thing that makes a good currency, namely stability. Instead, he classifies bitcoin as an object of speculation.

His hesitation is understandable, especially in light of bitcoins impending User Activated Soft Fork. Nonetheless, cryptocurrency has taken root in Austria. sterreichische Post, Austrias official postal services provider, recently announced its partnership with a Vienna startup to allow the exchange of euros for bitcoin.

Significantly, Nowotny is not completely pessimistic about cryptocurrency. He explains that Austria does not ban it as a banknote, but acknowledges that you have to let the people know what they are doing. Previously, he had compared cryptocurrencys popularity to the Tulip Crazeof the 16th century Holland.

Nowotnys measured approach is exactly what a concerned public would hope for in a central banker. He recognizes the inherent dangers and seeks to insulate the Austrian economy.

[Bubbles] can have negative psychological effects, he said. This is the danger we see but I would not overrate it either.

As a member of the European Central Banks governing council, Nowotny may inform the approach of his colleagues. In May, ECB president Mario Draghi encouraged the close study of distributed ledger technology.

Quotes translated from German using Google Translate.

Matthew is a writer with a passion for emerging technology. Prior to joining ETHNews, he interned for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as well as the OECD. He graduated cum laude from Georgetown University where he studied international economics. In his spare time, Matthew loves playing basketball and listening to podcasts. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

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BTC marketplace last 24 hours

The markets table will display all the current markets of the digital asset you have selected. This will switch the current asset back to the index level.

Bitcoin market last 24 hours

The exchange table below displays all the marketplaces of the digital asset you have selected. It is optional to select up to 5 exchanges at once to compare with the current market you are viewing. This will be listed above the chart with its price and volume for any specific period the chart's time frame is displaying. If any specific exchange is down or no data is displayed, this will be detailed with the reason at the bottom of this table.

Bitcoin is one of the first implementations of a concept called crypto-currency, which was first described in 1998 by Wei Dai on the cypherpunks mailing list. Building upon the notion that money is any object, or any sort of record, accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context, Bitcoin is designed around the idea of a new form of money that uses cryptography to control its creation and transactions, rather than relying on central authorities. In 2009, the first Bitcoin specification and proof of concept was published in a cryptography mailing list by a member under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto. Towards the end of 2010 Satoshi left the project, saying he had moved on to other things. The creator of Bitcoin never revealed his identity and simply left his invention to the world. The origin and the motivation behind Bitcoin are still today a great source of mystery. Since 2010, the Bitcoin community has grown with many developers working on the project. During June and July 2011, Bitcoin suddenly gained media attention leading to a massive buy rally. The resulting bubble slowly deflated through the latter part of 2011, and since then the value of Bitcoin has slowly climbed once again back to its 2011 heights. On September 27th 2012, the Bitcoin Foundation was created in an effort to standardize, protect, and promote Bitcoin.

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How can I buy bitcoin in the UK? – Telegraph.co.uk

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However, the process isn't always entirely straightforward. Legal bitcoin services are heavily regulated, given the currency's association with online black markets, and its cryptographic nature means security protocols can be complicated.

A bitcoin wallet is where you hold your bitcoins. Alternatively you can download the entire bitcoin program (around 150GB), but you're probably not going to go to those lengths, and there's no reason whyyour computer is more secure than a popular website, so the best option is to use an online wallet, which is sort of like a digital bank account.

There is no shortage of wallets, but one of the biggest and most popular is Blockchain.info, which is backed by millions in venture capital funding and has an easy to use website and mobile app. It also takes security steps to make sure your bitcoins are as safe as they can be.

Go to Blockchain.info/wallet to sign up, or download the mobile app. The sign up process is as easy as doing so for an email or social media account.

Blockchain.info has a series of security measures that you should take to make sure your bitcoins are safe once you do get your hands on them. Other wallets are likely to have the same protocols.

Note down your Wallet ID, found in Settings (you'll need it again to log in in future), and use the security centre to verify your email, set up two-factor authentication and so on. After that, you're ready to buy.

Once you've got your wallet, you're ready to add some bitcoins to it. As of the time of writing, one bitcoin is worth over 1,500, but fear not - they are infinitely divisible, so you can buy 10 worth (about 0.005 bitcoins) if you want.

To do this, you have to find a broker. If you're getting confused, think of it like buying a foreign currency from the Bureau de Change: the wallet is your bank account and the broker is the Bureau de Change.

Brokers are the ones handling your real money - you send them cash via a credit card, bank transfer or some other method, and they send bitcoins to your account. Because of this, they often have strict "Know Your Customer" requirements that include identity verification.

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Predicting the August 1 Split Flow Chart the Hard Way – Bitcoin News (press release)

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Below isa detailedflow chart graphic that depicts the possible outcomes to the upcoming scaling proposals that may be implemented in the near future. We hope to help our readers get a better understanding of whats going on with these specific Bitcoin network developments.

Also Read:The Blockchain Split Scenario: Staying Informed and Backing Up Bitcoin Keys

Over the next few weeks, the Bitcoin network and its participants may see some scaling proposals implemented to the protocol and the subject can be confusing. Right now there are multiple scenarios between three possible plans that include a user-activated soft fork (UASF), Segwit2x, and a user-activated hard fork (UAHF). Weve done a run down of each proposal, community sentiment, and possible outcomes in recent articles to give our readers some information on the topics.

We want to take it a bit further and give our readers a visual glimpse at the possible outcomes of Segwit2x, UASF, UAHF, all the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP) involved, signaling periods, and a timeline of dates and requirements. Bitcoin.com would like to also thank our friends Hampus Sjberg, Eric Wall, and Tomislav Dugandzic for allowing us to use the initial template for this flow chart.

At the moment there is a lot of support showing for BIP91 with intentions to activate Segregated Witness (Segwit) as part of the New York Agreement (NYA) roadmap. At the time of writing as you can see from the chart below BIP91 support is approximately 80.5 percent and the proposal needs to maintain 80 percent to lock in Segwit over336 blocks. Following a successful lock in period another 336 blocks has to pass to successfully activate Segwit. After the Segwit activation, NYA participants agreed to implement a 2MB hard fork which is proposed to take place ~3 months after the Segwit activation.

Another part of the discussion is the two user-activated forks that may be attempted on August 1. If Segwit2x fails to activate Segwit, then there is a possibility both user-activated forks will proceed with their plans on that date. UASF participants will then try to activate Segwit using full nodes aimed at blocking non-segwit blocks and hoping hash power will follow this move. Further, the UAHF is a contingency plan against this effort and plans to utilize a bitcoin implementation called Bitcoin ABC. This plan will remove segwit from the bitcoin code and use an adjustable block size instead. Moreover, the company Viabtc has pledged to support Bitcoin ABC with its own mining pool and will call the token Bitcoin Cash if the protocol splits off from the main chain.

Additionally, there have been some exchanges that have announced how they will handle a possible Bitcoin network fork. So far multiple exchanges have issued contingency plans and warnings about the possible network changes planned. This includes exchanges such as Bity, GDAX and Coinbase, Chinas top three trading platforms, and thirteen Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges have made statements concerning these events. On August 1 specifically, these exchanges say they will likely disable deposits and withdrawals, and possibly halt trading as well.

In addition to the announcements from nineteen global bitcoin exchanges on July 19, the firm Coinbase announced it would not support the user-activated hard fork and its associated token. The San Francisco-based bitcoin company says it will not honor the UAHF blockchain because it is incompatible with the current Bitcoin ruleset and will create a separate blockchain. Coinbase users are advised to withdraw their bitcoins from Coinbase by July 31st if they desire access to UAHF coins. Nevertheless, the trading platform will monitor the UAHF situation but doesnt plan on supporting any new blockchains anytime soon.

What do you think about the upcoming network changes? Let us know what you think about our flow chart in the comments below.

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UFO LATEST: Truth about ‘alien mothership’ filmed ‘tracking … – Express.co.uk

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Footage from the ISS livestream, uploaded to YouTube, shows a massive hazy object come into view in the background away from the space station.

Commentators have described it as first appearing as a line of orange lights, before it begins to take on a larger form.

As the clip comes to the end, the lights appear to dim back into space.

The video was released by brothers Blake and Brett Cousins who run YouTube channel thirdphaseofmoon yesterday.

The pair showed an interview with a UFO expert in an effort to identify the mysterious anomaly.

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In the video the expert says: "First, what I was looking at is I dont know exactly what I was looking at.

In the very beginning, you see these orange dots around it and by the end of it the entire thing almost shrinks up a little bit.

Almost as if its a giant mothership for all we know.

There have already been more than 40,000 views of the video.

One viewer said: Looks like the Battlestar Galactica just jumped into orbit.

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In the very beginning, you see these orange dots around it and by the end of it the entire thing almost shrinks up a little bit. Almost as if its a giant mothership for all we know.

UFO expert

Another said: Its an interstellar mother ship, watching what NASA is doing, as NASA have lied since the first encounter with UFO.

But a sceptical third said: To me it looks like the ISS filmed a storm in the upper atmosphere.

Thirdphaseofmoon has made it onto a number of UFO website and YouTube channel blacklists by more sceptical investigators, amid claims they use hoax and misrepresented footage.

The brothers deny this and claim to be legitimate researchers.

UFO chasers have reported seeing scores of UFOs on the livestream this year but they have turned out to be nothing more than ice, space debris, or lens flares which is when light refracts inside the camera lens and then is projected on to the still or video image.

Express.co.uk showed the video to Scott Brando, who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org, who said it was just reflected light coming from the ISS itself, so there was no UFO and nothing was actually there.

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Space station project seeks to crystallize the means to counteract nerve poisons – Space Daily

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The microgravity conditions of the International Space Station (ISS) may hold the key to improving our understanding of how to combat toxic nerve agents such as sarin and VX. That is the hope of Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) project that is part of an initiative at the National Institutes of Health aimed at developing improved antidotes for chemical agents.

"With increasing worldwide concern about the use of chemical weapons, there is significant interest in developing better counteragents," said David A. Jett, Ph.D., director of the CounterACT program, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a part of NIH.

Organophosphates (OPs), a family of chemicals that includes several pesticides as well as sarin and VX nerve agents, block the activity of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE). This enzyme is critical for allowing muscles to relax after they have been stimulated by the nervous system. When the activity of AChE is blocked (for example, by OPs), muscles cannot relax, leading to paralysis and eventually death.

Developing antidotes to this type of poisoning requires detailed knowledge about the structure of the AChE enzyme. Until now, the forces of gravity on Earth have posed a challenge to this area of research. That's where traveling into space comes in.

In June of this year, samples of the human AChE enzyme were sent to the International Space Station U.S. Laboratory by a team of CounterACT scientists led by Andrey Kovalevsky, Ph.D., Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Zoran Radic, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego. Using these samples, astronauts are currently growing large crystals of pure enzyme of a size that cannot be formed on Earth due to interference from gravity.

"By taking advantage of the microgravity conditions of the International Space Station, we hope to grow better, more uniform crystals that we are unable to grow on Earth," said Dr. Kovalevsky.

Once the crystals are grown to a large enough size, they will be returned to Earth and analyzed by a sophisticated imaging method called neutron diffraction that can provide an atomic-level view of the enzyme.

"Using this technique, we will be able to get a closer look at how the enzyme interacts with pesticides and nerve agents and learn about how the bond between the two can be chemically reversed," said Dr. Radic. "This method would not work on the smaller enzyme crystals that can be grown here."

Antidotes to OP exposure reactivate AChE by directly breaking its chemical bond with the OP. However, the speed at which the countermeasures available today are able to do this is too slow to be fully effective. This project will help researchers to develop antidotes that break the AChE-OP bond more quickly and that can also be delivered orally, which is another key to dealing with large-scale exposure to nerve poisons.

"Developing better countermeasures against these sorts of nerve agents is a major thrust of our overall program," said Dr. Jett. "This project is the kind of cutting-edge science we envisioned when we established the CounterACT program."

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