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Up today: US softens UK hardens it stands
on spying on your emails. Plus,
who is the most dangerous woman in the world?
But first, should I invest in Bitcoin?
Welcome to the Red Couch! The web show about
Internet freedom and security!
Cash? What's this? A fuzzy picture of a fat old hippie?
Coins? What are these?
Maybe they'll buy me a flag in Nevada in the Ins of Westeros.
Credit card? Whoa, too heavy for my pocket!
Credit card on my phone? Wow, but my phone
already has my emails, photos
music videos and my poetry. How long before it takes my heart, my lungs and my hair.
Money must go digital!
But is Bitcoin the future? Built by a strange Japanese person
who vanished in 2011, the virtual currency
is now gaining in popularity.
How does it work?
well, powerful computers compete to solve math problems
and are awarded with a code that is a Bitcoin.
It's like making money out of nothing and giving it as a prize
to the best player of candy crush saga.
Crazy? Yes, but is it any less insane than printing money in the middle of the
financial crisis?
Bitcoin allows you to buy and sell
online without using a credit card. You can purchase
with anonymity. It's like using cash on the web.
But last month the FBI busted online drug retailer,
Silkroad, which bought and sold *** and pills
for bitcoins.
Following the right the FBI collected
27 million dollars worth in Bitcoins and the suspected
founder of SilkRoad, Ross Ulbricht.
Bitcoin was established as an unregulated currency which removes
government financial meddling from our lives, but now,
the US government is becoming one of the biggest single owners
a bitcoins. The FBI's bitcoin wallet
detailed here and this is a list of the people sending more
bitcoins to this wallet.
Why are people giving the FB money?
Because, when you pay with bitcoins you can leave a message
which appears as a public note. Therefore,
it's away talking to the FBI for
activists.
Dear FBI, please freeBarrett Brown and drop the charges. #FreeBB
And idiots: "FBI are silly fegets -
Hope you enjoy being fegets - please stop
violating our freedoms love Julian Assange.
Now, I doubt this is the real
Julian Assange, because I think the founder of WikiLeaks
knows the correct spelling of faggets.
So now, agents Mulder, Scully, Cooper and Starling are loaded.
So what can they spend their bitcoins on?
Well, an Authorian Knight Bookhend in 2 tone Metallic set of 2.
Or a piecel night wear which says:
I simply walked into Mordor and all I got was this lousy pajamas.
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America went to a former
its massive violence at the planet's emails, but Britain
tracking down on supporters a Freedom of Information.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is attacking the Guardian newspaper
for revealing that America and Britain are spying on the world.
If newspapers do not submit to Government advice
on security issues, Cameron said he may
act.
Meanwhile, in America, US lawmakers are grilling the country's top spies
for failing to inform them but they were snooping 35 world leaders.
Both Republicans and Democrats agree that they should limit the powers
at the National Security Agency. This is like Mossad
and Hezbollah agreeing to celebrate Christmas together.
Meanwhile across the pond, UK newspaper The Sun, the official publication
the British government, has an exclusive.
What's this? The twin towers have been blown up again?
No, but they could be spines. We've lost our terror plotters.
Spy bosses have lost track terrorists plotting atrocities
because of CIA fugitive Edward Snowden's leaks,
the Sun can reveal! To access the rest of the article I have to pay one pound,
about 1.5 American dollars. I don't think I'll bother.
I rather stick the money at my #~.
Who's this? According to National Security Agency she
is the most dangerous woman in the world.
She comes from somewhere called Germany.
I don't understand so I decided to ask
a German.