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....

I really dislike the service (which I won't mention) that automatically hits all the various registries to gather this historical WHOIS information, but I won't deny it has a purpose here.

More likely they registered that domain for brand protection and repurposed it to keep their services up while they regain control of the .com. It's easier to register a domain than go through the UDRP with ICANN and/or the applicable registry to take it down when someone starts using it maliciously.

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

The ACLU has done a lot for various freedoms, including internet freedoms. One instance, where the ACLU represented an ISP that was served with National Security Letters, serves to illustrate the kinds of high profile and essential litigation they perform.