Category Tech

Developer Arrested Over Tornado Cash Research

Is this a further attack on developers hoping to intimidate people to self-censor themselves and not contribute any research or development to privacy measures for cryptocurrencies? This is more of an attack on privacy than money laundering and criminal activity,…

Know-Your-Customer: Crypto’s Quiet Kill-Switch

A good article, but in a previous post I gave a simplistic example with one of my Bitcoin transactions where I used an exchange to convert Bitcoin into Monero anonymously, all to point out that this blockchain analysis isn’t as…

Debian 13 Trixie Released

The official Debian announcement as it came to the mailing list this morning. Unfortunately, Debian is looking like it might be a software project dominated by woke management, so other than Raspberry Pi OS, I might not be using it…

Smaller Fedora Quality Team Proposes Cuts

One has to wonder if IBM and Red Hat are reaping the fruits of their shenanigans with CentOS, X.Org and Wayland. The free software and opensource community were paying close attention to the XLibre defamatory behavior of some of their…