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Krzysztof Shpak 197 13.04.2020

Forklog.media to Enhance Coverage of Privacy and Security Issues

Conspiracy theories are diverse and sometimes rather fascinating, albeit born by enthusiastic imagination and fallacies of the human mind. While there is outright reptile-people material just a couple clicks away at any given time, some arguments may plant one or two tiny concerns even in the soberest and most pragmatic people.

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Krzysztof Shpak 6815 07.04.2020

Safety Over Freedom: How Governments Introduce Surveillance Under Veil of Coronavirus Control

“A big battle has been raging in recent years over our privacy. The coronavirus crisis could be the battle’s tipping point.” That’s a warning from a Financial Times’ article by Yuval Noah Harari, the author of “Sapiens,” about the loss of freedom in a time when many are willing to sacrifice everything for the feeling […]

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Krzysztof Shpak 983 04.04.2020

Zoom and Gloom: Use It to Your Own Peril

While most businesses suffer greatly during the quarantine, there are bound to be at least some that actually thrive. It makes sense that among such businesses the most prominent ones would be digital platforms that provide convenient access to work and entertainment from home.

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Krzysztof Shpak 1225 19.03.2020

Brave Browser Creators Call Google Out For GDRP Violation

Google is a large and powerful company. Thanks to its diverse list of services and interactions with third-party websites, it collects a lot of data. Access to large volumes of information about users across the web gives Google considerable advantage in the market. Whether the advantage is fair and the data are treated by the […]

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Krzysztof Shpak 647 18.03.2020

Tor and Telegram Under Scrutiny: Will Russia Kill Anonymous Internet?

Roskomnadzor is closely studying anonymous and decentralized networks that enable bypassing the blocks imposed by the department. The ultimate goal of this study is to restrict access to such networks at the legislative level.

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Krzysztof Shpak 327 07.03.2020

Joerg Platzer: No Revolution Ever Fought for Freedom of Transaction Because It Always Was There

The financial world is getting ready for a cashless society of the future. Not the one lacking physical banknotes and coins, but the one lacking cash as the element of individuals’ financial freedom, no matter how limited it may be.

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Krzysztof Shpak 551 10.02.2020

Crypto-Anarchist Smuggler: A Lot of the Cryptocurrency Politics Is Not About Privacy, but About Economics

There is a little bit of confusion when it comes to cryptocurrency users, crypto-anarchists and cypherpunks. Are these terms even closely connected these days? What do the old school crypto-anarchists think about the situation the crypto-industry has found itself in? Do they still stick with Bitcoin and what they think about other big global trends? […]

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Krzysztof Shpak 682 17.01.2020

Retracing Monero’s Steps in 2019

Monero is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency launched in 2014. Unlike some other cryptocurrencies, Monero is not a Bitcoin fork and is based on its own whitepaper and codebase.

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ForkLog 821 18.12.2018

ForkLog Exclusive: Without Fungibility Mass Adoption of Bitcoin is Just a Vision – Wasabi Wallet

Officially launched on October 31, 2018, the 10th anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper, Wasabi Wallet is an open source, non-custodial, privacy focused Bitcoin wallet, which implements the technology known as Chaumian CoinJoin, a trustless coin shuffling with mathematically provable anonymity.

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ForkLog 359 22.10.2018

ING Bank Introduces Open-Source Zero Knowledge Technology for Blockchain Privacy

ING, the Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation, announced today the release of its open source blockchain tool Zero-Knowledge Set Membership (ZKSM).

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ForkLog 681 17.10.2018

Cryptohippie Co-Founder Paul Rosenberg: Decentralized Crypto Systems Will Allow Future to Happen

Paul Rosenberg, CEO and co-founder of VPN service called Cryptohippie and author of the Freeman’s Perspective newsletter, is also known as a man who wrote A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, a book instantly called a cryptoanarchist Bible.

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ForkLog 402 13.09.2018

Jonas Schnelli: Additional Layer Solutions Will Increase Value of Bitcoin in the Long Term

What is the nature of privacy? Is it our basic right or a privilege? If it is our fundamental freedom, do we have to fight for it? That is the question. Most people prefer easy options to avoid such crucial fights. For years it was only cypherpunks who have tried to develop technologies which could […]

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