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8 Great Libertarian Apps That Make Your World Freer & Easier to Navigate

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“Waze is a real-time, crowd-sourced map that not only tells you about traffic jams and finds the cheapest nearby gas station for you but also warns you of speed traps, police checkpoints, and ticket cams. Open WhisperSystem’s Red Phone and Text Secure provide easy end-to-end encryption for phone calls, text messages, and chats. If you’re on Apple iOS, check out Signal.  Meerkat and Periscope allow you to livestream everything from your kids’ soccer games to police stops directly to Twitter.  The Peacekeeper Emergency Response System app cultivates ‘benevolence’ and independence in communities by allowing you to create your own personal emergency response network.”

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The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy

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“Werner Koch wrote the software, known as Gnu Privacy Guard, in 1997, and since then has been almost single-handedly keeping it alive with patches and updates from his home in Erkrath, Germany. Now 53, he is running out of money and patience with being underfunded.  Like many people who build security software, Koch believes that offering the underlying software code for free is the best way to demonstrate that there are no hidden backdoors in it giving access to spy agencies or others. However, this means that many important computer security tools are built and maintained by volunteers.”

http://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke

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How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years — found at last

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“The money and time required to develop the Equation Group malware, the technological breakthroughs the operation accomplished, and the interdictions performed against targets leave little doubt that the operation was sponsored by a nation-state with nearly unlimited resources to dedicate to the project. The countries that were and weren’t targeted, the ties to Stuxnet and Flame, and the Grok artifact found inside the Equation Group keylogger strongly support the theory the NSA or a related US agency is the responsible party, but so far Kaspersky has declined to name a culprit. NSA officials didn’t respond to an e-mail seeking comment for this story.”

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/

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Feds Begin Their Crackdown on Bitcoin Stocks

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“If 2013 was the year that Federal agencies locked horns with bitcoin, the currency, 2014 is the year that they’re learning about bitcoin the fundraising mechanism. The current, technically interesting, bitcoin fundraising bubble, began when Mastercoin built a way of extending bitcoin’s blockchain so it can do a whole range of new things such as issuing brand new currencies and registering bets or contracts. Mastercoin, Ethereum and MaidSafe are essentially software startups that are pre-funded by selling their new digital currencies in advance.  The question is whether federal regulators will see this as an equity offering or instead something like the pre-sale of a video game.”

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/crypto-ipos/

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OpenBazaar: The Decentralized Offspring of Ebay & Amazon

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“No longer do you have to worry about a centralized business dictating the rules of operation (i.e. what kinds of items you want to list, what price, where you can sell or buy from). This creates a borderless trade system that no longer is limited to corporate interests.   Secondly is, as a protocol, OpenBazaar will support many types of business operations, not just direct sales or auctions (la eBay). You will be able to conduct all sorts of activities like lending, crowdfunding, crypto security issuance. The thing that makes this work, though, is our arbitration system, which uses multisignature transactions and a reputation system that is being built currently.”

http://cointelegraph.com/news/112756/openbazaar-the-decentralized-offspring-of-ebay-amazon-interview-with-project-lead-brian-hoffman

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Tony Gallippi Talks Newest BitPay Innovation: Copay

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“Copay is an open-source multi-signature wallet with some highly interesting features created on BitPay’s Bitcore, an open source bitcoin stack. For starters, BitPay is using Copay as one of its platforms for a decentralized key generator it has developed. This way, Gallippi says if a company were ever compromised, the keys would not be as they wouldn’t come from that centralized place. Decentralized key generators add a whole new level of security the Bitcoin community needs to ensure investor confidence.  According to Gallippi, he researched the top 100 richest accounts in Bitcoin and found that none of them, not a single one, was secured with multi-signature technology.”

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/tony-gallippi-talks-newest-bitpay-innovation-copay/2014/07/22

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Jeremy Allaire: Thoughts on the New York BitLicense Proposal

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“The high-level goal of establishing a license framework for a new class of digital currency-based money transmitters and money services businesses is reasonable. Having such a framework in place can materially open up commercial opportunities for companies by reducing the perceived risk and the regulatory uncertainty that currently hang over Bitcoin companies—enabling firms to find banking partners, insurance partners, auditors, and other business partners.  However, as it stands, the BitLicense is likely to have the opposite impact—radically limiting those who can participate in this industry, pushing firms offshore and into sometimes shadier jurisdictions.”

https://www.circle.com/2014/08/13/thoughts-new-york-bitlicense-proposal/

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The Future Of The Blockchain

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“There’s been discussion about whether Bitcoin is a currency, a commodity, or a technological protocol. There are good arguments for each categorization, but each is unsatisfying in some way.  Now we know why this debate is so unsatisfying. Bitcoin represents a novel form of organization — a blockchain-based entity — that’s not quite like anything seen before it.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-the-blockchain-2014-4

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Google Now Offers End-to-End Encryption on Email

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“Google has released the source code for a new extension for Chrome. It’s called End-to-End, and it will provide users with the ability to encrypt their email the whole way from outbox to recipient.  The new system uses the open-source encryption standard OpenPGP, and should make it easy for users to read encrypted emails that arrive in their inbox. Clearly, it will require both sender and receiver use End-to-End or another encryption tool—but the idea here is to make encryption more accessible.  It’s releasing the code so that devs, engineers and other wildly enthusiastic early adopters can test and evaluate it, to make sure it’s user-friendly, bug-free and secure.”

http://gizmodo.com/google-now-offers-end-to-end-encryption-on-email-1585831839

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Pixar will make its 3D rendering software free for download

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“Fans of Pixar rejoice — the animation studio behind such popular films as Toy Story, Monsters Inc., and Pirates of the Caribbean has announced its 3D rendering software will be given away for free for non-commercial use.  The program, called ‘RenderMan’, was originally developed by Pixar. In recent years, it has experienced increased competition from other animation programs, most notably, Arnold and VRay. Pixar licenses RenderMan out to other studios for use in their films, but to secure a broader base of users, the company thought it best to make it available to the public in general.“

http://www.electronicproducts.com/Software/Development_Tools_and_Software/Pixar_will_make_its_3D_rendering_software_free_for_download.aspx

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