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Comment Re:As always... (Score 4, Informative) 118

It's "just" the tor browser bundle and firefox portable, they link to both, where sources can be had. The custom configs are (naturally) included in this release for inspection. It seems that they configure Tor to be as fast as possible while removing some possible anonymity, and they block certain countries as exits to remove censorship. Then they have a dynamic proxy to automatically route torrent sites through Tor.

Comment Interesting (Score 4, Interesting) 520

It will be interesting to see how they will handle this. When I visited China, computer security didn't seem to be one of the top priorities among the computer users, so the majority of the population might just not care much about updates. If it starts breaking down completely, and Windows 7 or 8 isn't as easy to pirate, perhaps we'll see a Chinese mass migration to Linux.

I wonder how difficult it would be for the Chinese government to make their own Windows patches. They could probably perform a MITM on the windows update servers and feed their own patches if a lot of unpatched Windows machines leads to an increased influx of CIA-sponsored viruses to China.

Comment Re:Not quite the right conclusion... (Score 2) 425

One option is the ."51% attack". If a party has control of more hashing power than the rest of the network put together then they can arbitrarily block transactions they don't like from properly confirming. I'm quite sure if the US goverment chose to do so they could do this, it's a question of whether they would consider it worth committing those resources.

The computing power in the bitcoin pool today is 8 times the computing power of the top 500 fastest super computers in the world combined.

Even if NSA, Russia and China have more powerful setups than what's on the official Top 500 list (and I'm sure they do), it would take an immense effort to create something matching.

Comment Re:Will we finally get a replacement for hard disk (Score 1) 287

Honestly, computers are so efficient these days that fans shouldn't be necessary. I guess it's some sort of evil spiral. "Oh, the computers are so fast anyway, we don't have to bother optimizing this, it's just unnecessary developer time". Then you get to a situation where people write applications in a framework running on javascript running in an operatingsystem that is running *in* a web browser which is running on some other type of virtual machine ad absurdum.

And it's slow, but who cares, do you have a slow computer? Just buy more power.

Yes, I'm old.

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