California is banning the use of power-hungry computer hardware. This is interesting, does this mean mining for Bitcoin is illegal now? Since that uses a lot of power, you would think that it would be illegal. Considering the miners sometimes use a lot of cards in an array and run the rig for a long … Read more
Politicians are still talking about banning encryption on the Internet, this will allow them to monitor all communications that would otherwise be unreadable due to the encryption used, whether SSL or GPG encryption, but SSL is necessary for securing banking sites, validating a website so that the user knows that they are actually connecting to … Read more
As written in this posting: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1003709/pg1. The Turkish government has just banned Twitter access on their Internet. This is another step towards government censorship and control of the Internet. This is not a good move by the Turkish government. This will lead to users with technical knowledge to use TOR to tunnel through the censorship … Read more
Once again the old meme of violent video games has been dragged out of it`s crypt and blamed once again for any acts of violence that happen to take place in modern America. Sure there are record numbers of prescriptions of psychotropic drugs that are being given to people to help them with mental illnesses. … Read more