3 years after 9/11 and the US govt's enacted surveillance act (The PATRIOT Act), Nick Merrill - an ISP provider, got a letter from the FBI accompanied by a gag order.
He spent years challenging in court.
25 years later, he tells the whole story: https://t.co/PIZtQ9U7FV
Transactions face two hazard classes, each needing its own defence.
Security constrains opportunistic insiders.
Privacy limits information available to outsiders.
PriFi combines both, strengthening commitments at each link in the transaction lifecycle.
https://t.co/Gj6797GK45
What AI means for privacy, and how lawfare is being used against the people building outside the system.
With @lunardragon420, @harryhalpin, @SallyMayweather, and maybe a surprise guest or two.
https://t.co/pz9ZO2q2A9
25 years ago the bill that became the Patriot Act was introduced in the House
Three days later it was law.
It widened the FBI's power to demand records with a National Security Letter. In 2004 one reached Nick Merrill's ISP, with an order to tell no one.
On Monday @nickcalyx tells the story he spent a decade in court to be allowed to tell.
https://t.co/XcijTOzLoX
Join the λ Developer Meetup:
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Learn about the stack, show everyone what you're building, and get support with your tools.
Live now!
Join a private proof-of-stake network without ever funding a wallet from an exchange.
EmPoWering: run proof of work on your device → earn entry to Blend → send your first transaction.
No permission required.
This week on λ Dev Club Václav published a 3D model from a tablet, fetched it on his laptop over Logos Storage and Logos Messaging, and sent it to his office printer in the city over his own mesh instead of the printer maker's cloud.
λSQL writes are now batched into shared inscriptions.
Multiple writes ride a single on-chain inscription instead of one each, raising write throughput without changing the λSQL interface or semantics.
LEZ wallet storage is now encrypted using the wallet password.
Keys, account state, and derived material no longer sit in plaintext on disk, they are encrypted and unlocked by the wallet password.
EmPoWering is live on Testnet v0.3, it allows for your own machine to solve a hash puzzle for testnet tokens or Blend Core network access.
Work-backed Blend messages look the same as traffic from nodes running the network, so each newcomer adds cover traffic for everyone else.
7/ Privacy starts at your arrival on the Logos network.
EmPoWering proposes a way to join through contribution, earn your first tokens, and help strengthen the privacy others depend on.
Learn more: https://t.co/W8ooAav5sV
@Logos_network "Not only does this approach enhance privacy for new participants – it also allows applications to remove friction and deliver a better user experience by onboarding users to token-linked apps without requiring them to transfer an initial amount of tokens."
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Every empire that debases its money eventually falters and collapses. Rome did.
The question is what people do when that happens.
@QCMetellusPius joins us on Rome’s currency collapse, today's dollar parallel, and building an alternative society that doesn’t depend on it.
https://t.co/qlNV8UBE0t