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How Hackers Beat the NSA In The ’90s and Can Do It Again
While the world parses the ramifications of the National Security Agency’s massive snooping operation, it’s important to remember an earlier government attempt at data collection and, more important, how a group of hackers and activists banded together to stop it. Read More »
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Are Apple iOS, OS X Flaws Really Backdoors For Spies?
Two recently-discovered flaws in Apple iOS and Mac OS X have security experts openly asking whether the software vulnerabilities represent backdoors inserted for purposes of cyber-espionage. There's no clear answer so far, but it just shows that anxiety about state-sponsored surveillance is running high. Read More »
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Bitcoin Crowdfunding For Ebola Research And Open Access To Medical Research Papers
Kevin McKernan is a scientist working for the firm Courtagen Life Sciences, which specializes in genomic sequencing...“I have come to recognize that the [copyright] system doesn’t work,” McKernan said in a recent interview with Let’s Talk Bitcoin!...
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Estonia Is Using the Technology Behind Bitcoin to Secure 1 Million Health Records
Guardtime, a startup that uses technology similar to that underpinning bitcoin to secure public and private data, has signed a deal with the Estonian government to secure all the country's 1 million health records with its technology. The deal with the Estonian e-Health Authority comes alongside a partnership with Estonian Information Systems Authority, which will see more government data move to Guardtime's technology...
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How Snowden's Email Provider Plans To Build An NSA-Proof Communications Tool
Ladar Levison intends to offer a product with world-class cryptography and a user interface simple enough for a grandmother to master. Read More »
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Time For Internet Engineers To Fight Back Against The “Surveillance Internet”
Amid torrent of revelations that the NSA finds mass surveillance easy, the IETF ponders how to harden the Internet. Read More »
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Top 3 blockchain-based healthcare companies to watch in 2017
Game theory is the science of strategy. A branch of mathematics and economics that explores strategic situations across multiple stakeholders with different goals, whose actions can affect one another. Pioneering companies are changing the game with blockchain technologies. The new game of consumer interactions redefines transparency, immutability and security across industries. Much progress has been made with game theory. John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern’s 1944 book Game Theory and Economic Behavior outlined classic game theory...
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