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Crypto is speed running the lessons of both finance and cybersecurity. Today’s lesson from the Chainalysis breach: “there’s no such thing as a NOBUS (no one but us) surveillance capability.” Chainalysis is, in effect, the blockchain search engine for banks, police, and spies. Chainalysis says hackers stole credentials and tokens for all of its customers From arstechnica.com
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quick, someone set up a commercial freezer honeypot running go. Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf 10h I'm calling it right now: the X-Prize for AI-assisted vulnerability research is a general, widely-exploitable, non-contrived, non-situational memory corruption vulnerability class in Golang, presumably stemming from induced data races.
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Breaches like this are why on-chain activity has to be actually private if it touches economic reality. A few throwaway addresses or decoys don’t cut it. Bitcoin and Ethereum are Twitter for your bank account. It needs to be fixed. Lefteris Karapetsas @LefterisJP Nov 6 At this point I really don't know what to say @gnosispay - Full home, name and address details - Card number - All wallet addresses linked to the account Extremely disappointed. You had already lost me as a user but you could have at least protected my data .... Damn shame,
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The UK really doesn't like free speech. And if you think porn doesn't matter, the next thing they are coming for is VPNs. Free speech, crushed under a boot heel they are too busy l[the rest of this sentence may also be illegal in the UK]. Joseph Cox @josephfcox Nov 6 UK sex workers woke up to multiple platforms deleting or restricting their content because of the UK's new porn law, despite many of the videos actually not being illegal or having anything to do with the law 404media.co/clips4sale-con…
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Independent price and inflation data from Bloomberg. Would be interesting to make this cryptographically verifiable. Minimally you can commit to data as it's collected. But for prices taken off websites, you can go slightly further and get some evidence it was actually from the Anna Wong @AnnaEconomist Nov 3 An announcement that is as personal as professional: 18 months ago, we started collecting online prices in real time to track how Liberation Day tariffs were feeding into inflation. A lot has happened since. The BLS commissioner was fired. The longest government shutdown in US