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  • Warning: Bank of America Giving Access to Random Accounts

    Warning: Bank of America Giving Access to Random Accounts

    Today, we received an invoice for one of our expenses. To send the payment, I logged into Bank of America’s website to use their ACH (Automated Clearing House) system.  Once logged in, I was able to click on the ‘Transfers’ button.  Up until this point, everything was fine and I was viewing my own account.… Read more

  • How To Access Free WiFi from New York City Pay Phones

    How To Access Free WiFi from New York City Pay Phones

    New York City has launched a free public WiFi service at 10 different payphone locations, with more to come soon.  The initial locations can be found on Foursquare.  You can also find addresses for these locations on New York City’s press release. • • • The public wifi hotspots are equipped with antennas which can… Read more

  • CashU, Liberty Reserve, and OKPay Step Aside – For #VPN Sales, #Bitcoin Rules

    CashU, Liberty Reserve, and OKPay Step Aside – For #VPN Sales, #Bitcoin Rules

    It was once thought that the Internet’s most talked about deflationary crypto-currency would give way to massive hoarding and discourage spending, thus leading to a stale economy and a failure thereof.  The media had, at once, made an attempt to portray Bitcoin in a negative light, like a failure or dropout.  However, looking at Gates… Read more

  • Paul Graham Endorses Bitcoin

    Paul Graham Endorses Bitcoin

    History is in the making.  Although this is not a major announcement pertaining to Bitcoin directly, today may be one of the most historic days in the life of the crypto currency.  Today, it was announced that YCombinator, the biggest and most well known technology incubator, has funded a Bitcoin startup. What does this mean?… Read more

  • Big Brother is Watching: 007 Style

    Big Brother is Watching: 007 Style

    If you live in the UK, as unreal as this sounds, Big Brother is coming, and he has access to see every website you’ve ever visited, if you are not using an anonymizer, such as Tor or a VPN.  Recently, the UK and David Cameron have come under scrutiny due to a backwards censorship bill.  However,… Read more

  • How to Buy Bitcoins Anonymously in the US, Instantly

    How to Buy Bitcoins Anonymously in the US, Instantly

    If CISPA or other privacy-busting legislations pass, every detail of our personal lives will be at risk – and you’ll want to buy Bitcoins for safety. Although many of our foundations are rooted in anonymity, everything we see, do and buy may soon be exposed. However, technology always evolves, and anonymity is no exception. As many already… Read more