Quote from: tvbcof on June 30, 2015, 07:02:56 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on June 30, 2015, 06:56:06 PM

Quote from: tvbcof on June 30, 2015, 06:48:08 PM

Ever hear of Edward Snowden? Do you know what it means when someone in the 5-eyes says that they 'own the internet?'

As an infrastructure the global internet is no where nearly as robust as most people imagine. It can be much better, but there is little incentive and this is no accident. Most people cannot fathom designing in any other way but to maximize the capabilities granted by the owners of this resource and are dimly aware, if at all, how tenuous some of the capabilities are.

My sensibilities as an engineer and system designer had been to design for the worst plausible scenarios. In a great many cases this resulted in some wasted effort and some limitations. In a minority of cases it turned out that some of the worst fears were realized and my systems continued to perform to design. These minority of cases outweighed the majority by a mile. Part of the reason for this is that the super-systems did not become reliant on capabilities which the sub-systems were unable to deliver.

actually, i have. and he is precisely one of the reasons i think we're winning.

the NSA and 5 Eyes, i believe, are going to lose in the long run precisely b/c Snowden's leak shows they can't secure data. everyone knows this now which is why Google and Apple have started encrypting as default, much to the chagrin of the gvt. and this is happening all over the internet.

furthermore, with 21 Inc on the verge of releasing mini Asic chips that power devices, the chances for mass decentralization of Bitcoin goes up. also, the Internet has never had it's own monetary system or means of conveniently and cheaply paying one another in realtime. Bitcoin, for the first time in history, can provide that.

OK, let's try again. Ever heard of 'packet filtering?'

If you are the engineer you claim to be you know damn well how easy it would be to hide Bitcoin txns from a DPI DSP engine inside a HTTP image request, an audio or video stream, or of course via an encrypted connection.

Please don't post arguments that you know are illogical but you think will convince others. It does not further the discourse.