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Comment Depends on what you want to achieve (Score 1) 271

There's numerous ways to answer your question. Let me take a stab at some of them:

- You want to get into bitcoin because you want to "invest" in it: Bitcoin is very volatile. Study the charts and make your investment decision just like you would when buying stock. It's extremely high risk. The way things are going there's a good chance you loose everything if you are not willing to get out with a loss. The contrary might be true as well though. Since there's no crystal ball this is a hard prediction to make. Just see all the other comments.

- You want to hoard money in bitcoin instead of a bank account: Don't do it. See above.

- You want to use bitcoin for payments: For this purpose bitcoin is fantastic. You can send bitcoin around the world in milliseconds. So buy some bitcoin worth the amount you want to pay and send it off to wherever you want to make the payment to. Remember it's not 100% anonymous though as the payment can be tracked - as mentioned in some of the other comments as well. There's a chance of governments trying to fight bitcon but we will see how successful that is. I myself run a small webpage selling digital services that accepts bitcoin (as well as paypal) and I have more than 50% of my customers paying with bitcoin. Comparing bitcoin to other crypto currencies: bitcoin has the most acceptance. I doubt that any other crypto currency will ever achieve that level of acceptance. Once exception might be if a central bank would decide to issue their own crypto currency and tie it to their FIAT currency (e.g. USD, EUR, ...) in which case I think it would take off like a rocket. Chances of that actually happening though are very slim.

- You want to get into the blockchain technology: This is independent of bitcoin. Bitcoin is just one use-case for blockchain technology. The blockchain technology has high potential and I would absolutely recommend you get into the technology and become a blockchain expert. If you know the ins and outs of the technology there's probably numerous jobs for you out there.

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SIP Attacks From Amazon EC2 Going Unaddressed 104

mjgraves writes "Over the past week a number of IP-PBX systems have been suffering SIP attacks from hosts in the Amazon EC2 cloud. At least a dozen known attacks have been reported to Amazon, which has been surprisingly quiet about the matter. The issue has been well documented by one of the attack victims on his blog. The matter was also discussed on the April 16th issue of the VoIP Users Conference (podcast available at the link; EC2 segment begins around 3:30). Amazon appears to have gone silent on the matter even as the attacks are ongoing. This is completely irresponsible behavior from a such a hosting company, which should be acting to take down the attacker in their midst."

Comment just like spam mail... (Score 1) 556

you're screwed. Face it. This is like a spammer using your e-mail address as sender. Only with spam people know that it's a false sender. It will be a matter of time until called people recognize the fact that you can't trust caller-id unless the FCC would do something against this. Then again if the FCC does something against it you can probably spoof caller-ID from other countries.

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