Quote from: Odalv on June 10, 2013, 10:57:38 PM

Quote from: zemario on June 10, 2013, 10:29:27 PM

Quote from: Revelation 22:13 on June 10, 2013, 03:58:53 AM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-why

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Q: Why did you decide to become a whistleblower?

A: "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."

Q: Is it possible to put security in place to protect against state surveillance?

A: "You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place."

Face it. Bitcoin is already compromised. The NSA has endless resources to crack the cryptography of all communications on the planet. Do you really think they would just let people encrypt their communications freely by putting absolutely secure hash functions in the wild?

I will say it one last time: Bitcoin is a ticking time bomb. It is going to blow up any day now. Feel free to hold it for awhile but don't be the last guy holding it.

Please stop. It was entertaining the first time.

If you're a troll, you're a rather good one.
Besides trolling, I don't understand what your goal could be, such statements can only lead to the the single conclusion that their author is stupid. Is that what you're trying to make clear? Honest question, no sarcasm nor offense intended.

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Face it. Bitcoin is already compromised. The NSA has endless resources to crack the cryptography of all communications on the planet

This is
1.physically impossible, and therefore,
2.stupid

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Do you really think they would just let people encrypt their communications freely by putting absolutely secure hash functions in the wild?

An hash function is not a cypher.

I do not think ECDSA/SHA-256/RIPEMD-160 can be compromised. BUT I can imagine a random number generator (private key generator) used in Bitcoin-qt client could be (not so random ... :-) I did not study source, only speculation where to look for security hole) compromised -> every wallet then become deterministic wallet (~~easy to compute~~) ... :-) I believe, there are no errors in bitcoin-qt software, but what about "alt coins"