Since the prosecution accused him of these "murders for hire" were paid for by his personal Bitcoins, citing his laptop contents as proof, I think understanding how a blockchain operates and how they did not enter into evidence matching transactions from the drive that corresponded to persistent and openly public blocks which Bitcoin, by it's very nature is available to every single person who has a Bitcoin wallet, would have been easy to establish extremely reasonable doubt of the veracity of the Fed's claims in that accusation. That doesn't mean he didn't do all that, but it would have at least shown that how they knew what they did submit as "evidence" could have been shown definitively and damningly yet was not. Add that to the refusal of a person who is very reputable in the banking and security fields and advises governments to testify on his behalf on how stuff works, which he does to laypeople as his job very effectively (many times as an expert witness like he would have here) it seems massively shady that such a person would be denied as a witness to state facts that would have possibly been beneficial to the defense.
Ulbricht created a marketplace that was free from government interference to facilitate free and open transactions with anonymity, what was bought and sold were entirely the choices of the individual vendors and buyers. With "Free" and "Anonymous" being the cruxes of that concept, by definition he did not control the content. I think you are conflating two entirely different concepts.
I've been following this trial for the last few weeks reading Ars, Wired, TechDirt and listening to Free Talk Live. The Judge basically hamstringed the defense ruling that they should only receive the prosecution's evidence against him...the weekend before the trial began. That right there is such a fundamental insult to the basic rights of any accused that should horrify and enrage anyone who believed in our justice system's impartiality. Add that to the fact that the judge allowed the the prosecution to use the accusations that Ulbricht hired assassins to be considered by the jury even though none of that has been proven or even competently investigated, that is a massive miscarriage of justice on stupendous levels that should frighten anyone living in the US. Evidence such as screenshots implicating his guilt that could have easily been forged were accepted without question....the list goes on. They also disallowed Andreas Antonopoulos, an expert witness on understanding how BitCoin and it's blockchain works to help the jury understand what they were hearing so to form a basis on how to poke holes in the Fed's story....this is almost a blatant showing of the corruption of our justice system and it's subservience to US intelligence services as the Snowden revelations. I'm not saying Ulbricht was innocent...I don't know that...but what happened in this trial was in no way anything but a kangaroo court on display in full form. Ulbricht's guilt is still up in the air, but our government was guilty of far worse crimes merely in that Manhattan courtroom the last 4 weeks.
With all these attributes Graphene could maybe be applied to warfare as a payload. Once inhaled, some kind of detection scheme to track or detect the targets that were in the vicinity. Just put in a little graphene if you want to mark them for future surveillance, put in a shitload if you want them to inhale a bunch more...that would probably work faster than asbestos especially if it were possible to manipulate the structure to make particles ever more wickedly shaped. Like little shurikens or caltrops. Okay maybe not. But you could call that missile the Shinobi-1, that's all.
I thought that quantum entanglement couldn't transfer coherent communication since it is basically randomized and useful information transfer between particles was impossible.
"We understand 80 percent of traffic on the Tor network involves child pornography.” - Leslie Caldwell, Ast, Attorney General at the Justice Department
If this botnet is that good then unless you can monitor all your traffic to and from the suspected infected system with a separate, knowingly uncompromised system. I think a good botnet would be dormant offline and invisible to the kernel, making an offline scan using the suspected system to inspect itself useless as well. If this awesome botnet gets me, hey...oh well.
I use visual and audible cues like an oddly running HDD: going by the activity light mostly using SSDs. Also, fan operation, CPU temp, resource monitoring stuff. Just checking out what.exes are running and/or in startup once in a while is a good habit.
This is the best answer. I haven't used A/V software in a long time, and an A/V program running without good supervision does more harm than good. Any malware bad enough to worry about will be from an unknown vector as would an active network intrusion. Those things are more straightforward to defend against rather than weirdo, resource-heavy a/v background executables..
Also, I shouldn't reply to dumb-sounding science stories until I at least read the article first, in case it isn't at dumb as they usually are...like this one.
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Since the prosecution accused him of these "murders for hire" were paid for by his personal Bitcoins, citing his laptop contents as proof, I think understanding how a blockchain operates and how they did not enter into evidence matching transactions from the drive that corresponded to persistent and openly public blocks which Bitcoin, by it's very nature is available to every single person who has a Bitcoin wallet, would have been easy to establish extremely reasonable doubt of the veracity of the Fed's claims in that accusation. That doesn't mean he didn't do all that, but it would have at least shown that how they knew what they did submit as "evidence" could have been shown definitively and damningly yet was not. Add that to the refusal of a person who is very reputable in the banking and security fields and advises governments to testify on his behalf on how stuff works, which he does to laypeople as his job very effectively (many times as an expert witness like he would have here) it seems massively shady that such a person would be denied as a witness to state facts that would have possibly been beneficial to the defense.
Ulbricht created a marketplace that was free from government interference to facilitate free and open transactions with anonymity, what was bought and sold were entirely the choices of the individual vendors and buyers. With "Free" and "Anonymous" being the cruxes of that concept, by definition he did not control the content. I think you are conflating two entirely different concepts.
I've been following this trial for the last few weeks reading Ars, Wired, TechDirt and listening to Free Talk Live. The Judge basically hamstringed the defense ruling that they should only receive the prosecution's evidence against him...the weekend before the trial began. That right there is such a fundamental insult to the basic rights of any accused that should horrify and enrage anyone who believed in our justice system's impartiality. Add that to the fact that the judge allowed the the prosecution to use the accusations that Ulbricht hired assassins to be considered by the jury even though none of that has been proven or even competently investigated, that is a massive miscarriage of justice on stupendous levels that should frighten anyone living in the US. Evidence such as screenshots implicating his guilt that could have easily been forged were accepted without question....the list goes on. They also disallowed Andreas Antonopoulos, an expert witness on understanding how BitCoin and it's blockchain works to help the jury understand what they were hearing so to form a basis on how to poke holes in the Fed's story....this is almost a blatant showing of the corruption of our justice system and it's subservience to US intelligence services as the Snowden revelations. I'm not saying Ulbricht was innocent...I don't know that...but what happened in this trial was in no way anything but a kangaroo court on display in full form. Ulbricht's guilt is still up in the air, but our government was guilty of far worse crimes merely in that Manhattan courtroom the last 4 weeks.
http://xkcd.com/504/
Not just time but distance as well...IE Spacetime.
Lighten up, John Titor.
I meant this was "all you need to know" to understand it total bullshit. Damn, I have been really good at not needing obvious sarcasm indicators.
By random I actually meant unintelligible or unknowable since the result would have no possible way to interpret it.
With all these attributes Graphene could maybe be applied to warfare as a payload. Once inhaled, some kind of detection scheme to track or detect the targets that were in the vicinity. Just put in a little graphene if you want to mark them for future surveillance, put in a shitload if you want them to inhale a bunch more...that would probably work faster than asbestos especially if it were possible to manipulate the structure to make particles ever more wickedly shaped. Like little shurikens or caltrops. Okay maybe not. But you could call that missile the Shinobi-1, that's all.
I thought that quantum entanglement couldn't transfer coherent communication since it is basically randomized and useful information transfer between particles was impossible.
"We understand 80 percent of traffic on the Tor network involves child pornography.” - Leslie Caldwell, Ast, Attorney General at the Justice Department
(Drops Mic)
That's a perfect analogy to this story. Spot on.
If this botnet is that good then unless you can monitor all your traffic to and from the suspected infected system with a separate, knowingly uncompromised system. I think a good botnet would be dormant offline and invisible to the kernel, making an offline scan using the suspected system to inspect itself useless as well. If this awesome botnet gets me, hey...oh well.
I use visual and audible cues like an oddly running HDD: going by the activity light mostly using SSDs. Also, fan operation, CPU temp, resource monitoring stuff. Just checking out what .exes are running and/or in startup once in a while is a good habit.
This is the best answer. I haven't used A/V software in a long time, and an A/V program running without good supervision does more harm than good. Any malware bad enough to worry about will be from an unknown vector as would an active network intrusion. Those things are more straightforward to defend against rather than weirdo, resource-heavy a/v background executables..
Also, I shouldn't reply to dumb-sounding science stories until I at least read the article first, in case it isn't at dumb as they usually are...like this one.
With a prism from my telescope and a magnifying glass.
Scientists are finally of a consensus that yes, indeed, it is time to rock.
Here's a Ycombinator discussion on this very thing...
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
I was thinking that Zoe and Anna were the same person, thanks. I'll try to keep that straight...actually screw it.
Maybe some kind of software defined radio contraption in a flying platform.
More like Nocturnus, Thresholds -era.
Is "real-time" the new "literally", where how much you mean it matters more than what the word actually means?
Is the pres gonna plink with Hickok45 at his "backyard range"?
The agent responsible for what happens in these pages could be a good start to slutshaming these assholes.
http://www.spiegel.de/media/me...