A Bitcoin-Powered Marketplace Could Change the Future of Secrets

A Bitcoin-Powered Marketplace Could Change the Future of Secrets

In the modern classic movie Sneakers, a ragtag team of hackers and security engineers attempt to pull off the mother of all crypto-heists - they are hired to steal a hardware device that is capable of decrypting anything. The movie, written and produced in the early 1990s, is oddly prescient about the subject of cryptography and how much of our modern technology depends on its infallibility. The film's ending, viewed through the lens of the last decade, takes on a completely new, almost parodical, meaning: the NSA turn out to be the good guys. Last month, the U99 group announced plans to....


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