Meet Darkleaks, a Bitcoin-Powered Black Market for Secrets
A new black market where informants can trade secrets for bitcoin has been announced this week. Darkleaks, masterminded by members of crypto-anarchist collective unSystem, will let users sell leaked data in an anonymous, trustless environment powered by bitcoin's blockchain. Amir Taaki, the project's systems developer, told CoinDesk he hopes to "[devalue] business models based around proprietary secrecy" by providing a financial, rather than moral, incentive for insiders to reveal information. History of radical schemes. The unSystem team has divided opinion with radical projects like the....
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It is not like black markets never existed, but Bitcoin technology indeed gave them a simplified and secure platform to trade in and flourish. As developers continue to experiment with this new decentralised P2P payment network, some among them seem to be actually creating ills out of it. In this case, we are speaking about Darkleaks - a blackmarket running on the Bitcoin blockchain for leaking "confidential secrets, hollywood movies, software exploits and so on." Wikileaks or Darkleaks. Their introductory post describes Darkleaks as some tool that can trade any kind of confidential....
The truth, in 2015, will set you free. Of some Bitcoin. It's a poorly kept secret that the U. S. Government has waged war against the whistleblowers President Obama once swore to protect. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been on the run for years. Heroic government whistleblower Edward Snowden has left the U. S. out of fears of persecution, and has sought freedom and political asylum in Russia. And countless others have met lengthy jail sentences for uncovering illegal behavior and wrongdoing with the "Powers That Be". This shows just how far the U. S. has fallen in the realization of....
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....
The seemingly unstoppable growth of “darknet” marketplaces is creating a new commodity industry – corporate insider information. The mainstream media would have you believe the dark web is primarily for distributing drugs and child pornography — much as they did with the regular Internet back in the mid-1990s. Anonymous Markets Tempting for Corporate....
Bitcoin can surely turn your Black Friday's shopping experience into an interesting "bargain hunting" adventure. In the USA, Black Friday is a term used to describe the day following Thanksgiving, and it flags the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, especially that most US merchants offer special discounts for their customers on that day. Bitcoin Black Friday is a special website that gets together all merchants accepting bitcoin payments on Black Friday. It is totally free to list your product on Bitcoinblackfriday.com, if you accept bitcoin payments, and get the chance to meet....