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Tor: The Onion Router

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“With the ever expanding surveillance systems being employed in the United States and around the world, the ability to use the internet anonymously is becoming increasingly important, especially for activists, or anyone who is not okay with your Search Engine provider, ISP (Internet Service Provider) and your government knowing everything about your internet use. Here, I will go into brief detail about the technical aspects of Tor, give reasons why you should use Tor and finally guide you through the installation of the Tor browser and how to contribute to the network by setting up a relay.”

http://c4ss.org/content/19091

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Don’t Make it Easy for Governments to Compile Your Digital Dossier – Part II

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“The Onion Router (Tor) was originally a research project of the US Naval Research Laboratory and was developed as a third generation anonymity software. Today, the Tor Project is an open source application and is used worldwide by private citizens, the military, journalists, law enforcement officers, and activists. Tor is arguably one of the most anonymous Internet anonymizers available. As the above diagram illustrates, users, via a Tor client, make a random connection to the first of three remote servers. The remote servers can be operated by anyone – virtually anywhere in the world. The three servers, also known as nodes, are encrypted.”

http://www.internationalman.com/78-global-perspectives/933-dont-make-it-easy-for-governments-to-compile-your-digital-dossier-part-ii

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Julian Assange on Bitcoins and Gold

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“Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off. No central nodes. It is all point to point. One does not need to trust any central mint. If we look at traditional currencies such as gold, we can see that they have sort of interesting properties that make them valuable as a medium of exchange.  Of all metals it is the easiest to chop up into fine segments. You can test relatively easily whether it is true or whether it is fake. You can take chopped up segments and you can put them back together by melting the gold. You can take it and put it in the ground and it is not going to decay like apples or steaks.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/04/julian-assange-on-bitcoins-and-gold.html

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Reporting from Bitcoin Conference 2013

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“All attending the first Bitcoin 2013 conference in Silicon Valley are considering it a success. There are more than 1,000 attendees and the entrance fee to the event is $350.00.  At one booth, Bitcoins were being sold for cash with no ID checks. Walk up to the booth lay down your money and buy your bitcoins. The money was piling up.  The less ‘corporate,’ the more renegade seemed to be the operators and the more willing these operators seemed to be willing to challenge the government. One corporate type said to me that virtual currencies are in their infancy and that lawsuits, fighting and jail time for some will occur before the crypto-currency world becomes more defined.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/05/reporting-from-bitcoin-conference-2013.html

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Making Sense of Bitcoin

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“Despite the various opinions on Bitcoin, there is no question as to its ultimate value: the ability to bypass government restrictions, including economic embargoes and capital controls, to transmit money quasi-anonymously to anyone anywhere virtually instantaneously irrespective of geopolitical restrictions. While virtually all digital currencies can more or less do the same, no other currency offers an equal combination of peer-to-peer transactions, strong encryption, anonymity, and liquidity that Bitcoin has possessed up to this point.”

http://www.internationalman.com/78-global-perspectives/929-making-sense-of-bitcoin

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IRS Takes A Bite Out Of Bitcoin

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“Bitcoin is virtual currency much in the news these days. It’s peer-to-peer so there’s no central bank or government. But if you think that means the IRS won’t get a piece, think again.  The IRS already gets a piece where you swap one product or service for another, as the IRS explains at its Bartering Tax Center. Soon the IRS may have a Bitcoin Center too. The Treasury unit called FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, already has rules about Bitcoin and the IRS is likely to follow.  In the meantime, the tax rules seem pretty clear. If you provide services or sell goods for Bitcoin, you have income.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/05/02/irs-takes-a-bite-out-of-bitcoin/

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Collected Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts, Silk Road Founder

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“In public, the pseudonymous Internet drug czar known as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn’t say much. But within the community that the Dread Pirate Roberts has created, Silk Road’s founder is hardly so shy. On the Tor-hidden online forums associated with Silk Road, Roberts posts long manifestos, philosophical and political musings, love letters to Silk Road’s users, and even hosts the Dread Pirate Roberts Book Club, a reading and discussion group devoted to ‘agorism, counter-economics, anarcho-capitalism, Austrian economics, political philosophy, freedom issues and related topics.'”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collected-quotations-of-the-dread-pirate-roberts-founder-of-the-drug-site-silk-road-and-radical-libertarian/print/

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Japanese police ask ISPs to block Tor

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“Japanese citizens who want to use Tor for whistleblowing or simply to stay invisible don’t have to worry quite yet about the agency’s desire to crack down on Web freedom. One industry insider told The Mainichi that ‘Communication privacy is our lifeline. We won’t be able to accept such a request,’ and with any luck, an industry backlash could force the agency to look at more sensible ways to combat cybercrime and piracy — or they could simply go back to chasing cats.”

http://www.zdnet.com/japanese-isps-to-block-tor-users-guilty-until-proven-innocent-7000014321/

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Encryption and Privacy: Goodbye Copyright Laws

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“Kim Dotcom really is his name these days. He had it legally changed.  The federal government shut down his enormously profitable file-sharing business in 2011. It won’t shut down his latest version of file-sharing.  His new company, Mega, offers 100% encryption. His company can’t crack it. The U.S. government can’t crack it — not at a price it can afford, anyway.  So people can post movies, songs, or anything else on his site. You get 50 megabytes of free storage to start out.  His lawyers can now say this: ‘Our company will cooperate with the governments of the world. But, sorry, we have no idea what people are putting into their accounts.'”

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/04/18/encryption-and-privacy-goodbye-copyright-laws/

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Bitcoin Should Get Ready for an Attack

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“The coming attacks will be publicized rapidly – with stories and releases prepared ahead of time – and will paint the worst possible picture. Afterwards it will be seen that the first loss estimates were wildly high, but that won’t matter to the people who see the headlines on the evening news. Joe and Jane Obedient will believe the worst. This is all manipulation, obviously, since people are being ripped-off in government money, on gigantic scales: millions of thefts at once. But, such is the state of the West at this sad moment: The large abusers are sanctified and the innovators are demonized.”

http://lewrockwell.com/rosenberg/rosenberg-p14.1.html

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