XCurrency Unveils Cryptographic Privacy Technology In Wake Of NSA xKeyScore Outrage
The push for full privacy and anonymity, as opposed to psuedoanonymity as currently offered by Bitcoin, within a digital currency network has reached a fevered pitch in recent months. Recently, source code from a previously secret NSA program found in Germany known as xKeyScore has shown the specific search terms, websites, and email chunks that will result in all data from your IP being pulled and saved in NSA databases for future cracking and snooping. Just visiting sites or reading articles about privacy-enhancing software such as the Tor Project, the Linux Journal, or Tails puts you on....
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