If you are tumbling coins that were in anyway ill-gotten, it's pretty squarely money laundering under 18 U.S.C. 1956: https://www.law.cornell.edu/us....

Even if the coins you put in were all obtained legitimately, a strict reading of that law would seem to indicate that it's possible you could be charged with money laundering if you knew or reasonably should have known that other participants in the transaction were putting in tainted funds. That said, I doubt this would be very likely as prosecutors don't typically like having to prove people's internal state.

I've been a Lyft user since the Uber scandals in 2014 including god mod, sucking up people's contacts, and digging up dirt on Journalists. They didn't blow up like the scandals this year, but it was enough for me to know that the company was shady. People used to ask me why I used Lyft instead of Uber, but not anymore.

It is part of the advertising SDKs in some apps that you install from the app stores. The idea is that if the advertising network can link the tracking cookie IDs on your devices (e.g. sending a signal on your desktop and picking it up on your phone), they can build a better profile on you with more targeted ads.

Silverpush is one SDK that does that though there are several others. You can find some apps that use it here, though they are mostly junk apps: https://public.addonsdetector....

So the attackers will just have to buy one of these to make sure their malware passes, just like they do already with desktop AV? I guess that's good for Norton's bottom line.

I leave all my important data with my Attorney. I update it every so often which sometimes involves copying the old stuff to a new drive and adding anything new. My attorney is also a family member so YMMV.
As for my cloud data, I pretty much assume that any smaller company could go bust any day, and the larger ones could quite possibly be doing things with my data that I don't like. I use those services accordingly.

That is harder than you'd think. A surprising amount of data ends up going through the US. A lot of the EU-Asia traffic ends up going through the US as the indian ocean routes are relatively slow, and AFAIK Russia hasn't built any extensive cross continent fiber networks.

The conventional rule of thumb is that your standard freeway costs ~$1 million a mile, depending on the size and local considerations (e.g. prevalent natural disasters in the area). I don't even want to think about the cost of a 2 tiered system. You'd have the normal $1 million/mile for the bottom layer, and then the cost of engineering, building, and maintaining a completely elevated roadway. Not to mention the massive interchanges you need to connect these 2 tiered freeways to each other. I'd guess you'd increase the cost by an order of magnitude.

Also the number one cause of traffic is traffic density. The weaving just exacerbates it.

I assume my email transits the internet in the clear regardless how I send it so I am having a hard time getting angry about this.

Whoosh!

Back when I did OpenSolaris work, we used a tool called mbuffer which is basically netcat with a buffer on each end. It wouldn't been suitable for internet backups (no encryption) but it works pretty well for cross campus backups and the like.

IIRC it works like this on the sending side: 'zfs send pool/fs@snap | mbuffer -s 128k -m 4G -O 10.0.0.1:9090'

And on the receive side: 'mbuffer -s 128k -m 4G -I 9090 | zfs receive pool/fs'

It can still be pretty bursty but it smoothes out a lot of it.

Somehow this will cause someone to puke.

I for one welcome our new viral overlords.

Had to read that twice.

>The good news is that although the botnet itself is bad, the number of connections and extra clients improves Tor security overall for all the other users. The thing is, the more relays, the more connections, the larger the network... the faster and more secure it is.

That isn't what is happening here. The new connections are clients only so they aren't acting as relays or exit nodes. Tor network stats actually show a slight drop in performance. However, the increased number of clients does probably make correlation attacks harder, if the NSA or someone else is actually doing those.