Bitcoin is starting to come into its own as a digital currency, but the blockchain technology behind it could prove to be much more significant. This book takes you beyond the currency (“Blockchain 1.0”) and smart contracts (“Blockchain 2.0”) to demonstrate how the blockchain is in position to become the fifth disruptive computing paradigm after mainframes, PCs, the Internet, and mobile/social networking.
Lisp is a very expressive language. Lisp is designed to let you take the most
complicated programming ideas and express them in a clear and appropriate
way. Lispers have the freedom to write a program in exactly the way that is
most helpful for solving any problem at hand.
This
newsletter−type project is home−based at Metal Shop. If you or your group are
interested in writing philes for Phrack Inc. you, your group, your BBS, or any
other credits will be included. These philes may include articles on telcom
(phreaking/hacking), anarchy (guns and death & destruction) or kracking.
The upcoming age of the Internet of Things (IoT) will blur the line between our physical
and online lives. Attacks targeting our online spaces will put our physical security at
risk. Traditionally, the attack vectors to our fundamental luxuries have required physical
tampering, mostly because access to the infrastructure has been limited from the In‐
ternet. This is about to change with the upcoming disruption caused by a future with
billions of “things” connected to the Internet.
This book was written for practicing Python programmers who want to become pro‐
ficient in Python 3. If you know Python 2 but are willing to migrate to Python 3.4 or
later, you should be fine. At this writing the majority of professional Python program‐
mers are using Python 2, so I took special care to highlight Python 3 features that may
be new to that audience.
Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jérémie Zimmermann - Cypherpunks_ freedom and the future of the Internet(2012)
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The Internet has led to revolutions across the world but a crackdown is now
in full swing. As whole societies move online, mass surveillance programs
are being deployed globally. Our civilization has reached a crossroads. In one
direction lies a future promoting “privacy for the weak and transparency for
the powerful”; in the other is an internet that transfers power over entire
populations to an unaccountable complex of spy agencies and their trans-
national corporate allies.
Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the mass use of strong
cryptography as a way protecting our basic freedoms against this onslaught.
Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has
been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since the 1990s. Now, in
a timely and important new book, Assange brings together a group of rebel
thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyberspace to dis
cuss whether the internet will emancipate or enslave all of us.