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Zuckerberg Says He Called Obama To Express ‘Frustration’ Over NSA Surveillance

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Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the first name that comes to mind as a champion of privacy. But the seemingly endless revelations of NSA surveillance programs has inspired Facebook’s founder to call up no less...

So-Called Bitcoin Creator Says He’d Never Heard Of Bitcoin Until Three Weeks Ago

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When Newsweek announced Thursday morning that it had found Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin community was immediately skeptical. It turns out their doubts may have been well founded....

Bitcoin Community Responds To Satoshi Nakamoto’s Outing With Disbelief, Anger, Fascination

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It’s been nearly three years since anyone involved with Bitcoin heard from Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of the cryptocurrency that has created fortunes and changed lives. Now it seems that Nakamoto...

Indicted Bitcoin Mogul Charlie Shrem Defiant In First Public Appearance Since Arrest

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Before he was charged with money laundering in January, Charlie Shrem was a board member of the government-friendly Bitcoin Foundation and the public face of the New York Bitcoin startup community....

Bitcoin Shrugs Off Mt. Gox’s Death Rattle

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The Bitcoin community may not exactly be dancing on the grave of Mt. Gox, the oldest and once-largest cryptocurrency exchange, which officially filed for banktrupcy in Japan Friday morning. But it’s...

Ex-Googlers at Shape Security Get $40 Million More To Fund Their War On Bots

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Shape security spent more than two years working in secret before officially launching its buzzy web security appliance last month. But at its first public appearance at the RSA security conference...

Former Apple Security Engineer To Apple: ‘Fix Your Sh-t’

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If it wasn’t yet clear to Apple that its ‘gotofail’ security flaw has the undivided attention of the information security industry, one of its own recently departed star engineers just spelled out...

Ross Ulbricht Pleads Not Guilty On All ‘Silk Road’ Charges

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Last November, Ross Ulbricht’s lawyer Joshua Dratel told reporters only hours after first meeting his client that he planned to show that Ulbricht is not the “Dread Pirate Roberts” who created the...