Being an activist in China is very risky business.
It’s official, gay means rubbish at the BBC. It’s only hate speech if it comes out of someone else’s mouth I suppose.
Belgian newspaper De Morgen publishes a flickr user’s burning man photos without his consent.
My thoughts exactly on the Belgian press vs Google: Belgian Court Hankers For Stone Age.
Interesting view on how lobbyists in Brussels shape European decisions.
[Interesting article][1] on the DJ Drama affair and the whole hip-hop mixtape scene.
[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/magazine/18djdrama.t.html (Hip-Hop Outlaw (Industry Version) - Samantha M. Shapiro - New York Times [site language: English])
California is pioneering what could be the next battleground against global warming: filing suit to hold cities and counties accountable for greenhouse gas emissions caused by poorly planned suburban sprawl.
The world is slowly catching up to dystopian sci-fi stories. A predictive policing program used by Chicago's police predicted a man would be involved in a shooting. The ramifications within the police and local community ended up getting him shot – twice!
It's a long read, but well worth it. The story of how investigators followed Bitcoin transactions to bring down a large child abuse site.
Bitcoin isn't as anonymous as most people think:
Within a few years of Bitcoin’s arrival, academic security researchers—and then companies like Chainalysis—began to tear gaping holes in the masks separating Bitcoin users’ addresses and their real-world identities. They could follow bitcoins on the blockchain as they moved from address to address until they reached one that could be tied to a known identity. In some cases, an investigator could learn someone’s Bitcoin addresses by transacting with them, the way an undercover narcotics agent might conduct a buy-and-bust. In other cases, they could trace a target’s coins to an account at a cryptocurrency exchange where financial regulations required users to prove their identity. A quick subpoena to the exchange from one of Chainalysis’ customers in law enforcement was then enough to strip away any illusion of Bitcoin’s anonymity.
Warning: there's some disturbing content in the article. It's depressing to read about these people.
