TikTok has been caught red handed with the camera and microphone running 24x7. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/...

That's all the evidence I need that TikTok is an asset of the CCPs intelligence apparatus.

To avoid any confusion it should be clear that these are the developers of btcd not bitcoin core. As far as I know the only bitcoin core developer working on an altcoin is gavin andresen.

I'm thinking that's probably a violation of federal law and like most of the us legal system they are entirely reliant on prosecutorial discretion to avoid prison time.

Possession of child pornography is illegal in itself.

Given that how would they have the original image to match against?

StartSSL is great, but not entirely free of cost.

StartSSL certs are not free to commercial entities.

StartSSL charges for certificate revokation.

I would assume the files are encrypted with a symmetric cipher like AES. Known plaintext attacks are not very effective against symmetric ciphers. Indeed they're designed to be resilient to chosen plaintext attacks.

In all fairness the password was "notapassword," but still.

Except apple stores passwords for iTunes in plaintext.

I received an email from apple reminding me that i had $10 in iTunes funds availalble.

Only problem is where my username should have been was my password in plaintext.

This is WRONG. Almost all 802.11 a/b/g/n devices will actively probe for ESSIDs that they have previously used. Your phone is constantly broadcasting for access points.

So what they're saying is the only way they can stop bad guys with guns is good guys with guns. Gee where have I heard that recently....

This was demonstrated at DEFCON 20. He live demo'd rooting an android device using NFC to open the browser and a brwoser exploit to gain root. https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-20/dc-20-speakers.html#Miller

thanks to Microsoft's open-source Kinect platform for Windows

This was done using https://code.google.com/p/simple-kinect-touch/ not the microsoft SDK.

Anybody who actually knows Amir would find that hilarious.

He isn't in this for the money, he has given away all of his bitcoins (and I mean ALL).

You're talking about a country that has to import refined oil because they lack the technical ability to refine crude oil.

There is no way in hell they're going to clone a stealth drone.