You only need to do that here (Sweden) if you want to deposit large enough sums, I don't know exactly how much should be a couple of thousands of your so-called quids.

I expect this to gradually change within the next 10 years or so, though. I mean, handling cash in this day is suspicious enough when you might as well use a debit or credit card of some sorts, or pay with your phone bill.

Actually, a better "analogy" is that they work hard on making sure that cash can't be used anonymously. Each transaction must be monitored (serial numbers on every bill, cameras in every ATM and store), and controlled (demanding proof of ownership for depositing cash at a bank, removing the possibility to actually use cash for buying travel documents).

Much like they are working hard on trying to make sure Tor can't be used anonymously.

The Swedish police is right now trying to sell 28 poodles which were seized. That isn't an implicit endorsement to poodles as a valid currency in Sweden.

This is not a problem, because of the way bitcoins can be divided.

I'm just judging the book by its cover. It looks like it's design to lure people with flashy but cheap looking animations.

Anyway, changing your browser string won't make you less trackable. They don't use those for tracking individual users.

Uhm, heh...

No. Sorry.

From the look of that website, you probably have some nice tracking installed now though.

He did claim early on that he did this because he didn't want any personal information about any NSA agents getting out, and I bet the papers are full of them.

It is, however, a pretty lame excuse IMHO. But I'm not the one with a government agency after me.

Interesting. If I worked for NSA, I would try to. It would give some more information. Though on the other hand, they may just as well run their own nodes to get that information (oh yes, they do this already), and hacking 'normal' people just for the lulz always increases the chance of information about your operations getting out.

In short: It would be stupid to hack you just because you're running a node, unless you're their target in some other way.

I think it's because Snowden didn't release it all, like Manning, but just released a small part of it, and only to a newspaper. He claimed to have his reasons for this, not that I agree with them. Something about how the Manning files identified some people, and that Snowden didn't want that to happen.

Of course they are watching exit nodes. Everybody should assume they do (also the person running the node will watch, and that person's ISP).

However, I have never heard anyone claiming they can tie the traffic back by watching the traffic, other by the well know timing attacks that they *do* talk about in the article. Basically, they see some traffic exit the node at the same time as they see similar traffic at some completely unrelated place in the network, building up statistics which can identify a suspect over time. This is why they say they have limited success.

What do you mean by this? If you operate a node, your computer is simply a passive router of traffic. I'm not sure what you mean by "safety" here.

Tell me more about how Valve developed this new "Linux" operating system.

Ironic that the Swiss are doing this, one of the few landlocked countries in the world.

Maybe they already sound very similar to the sounds whales make, and maybe that's why the whales get disoriented and stranded.

And if it's not obvious (mainly for our SI-challenged readers), 10 micrometers equals 0.01 mm.