[Info-vax] OpenVMS x64 Atom project

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-06-05 20:21:51 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:

> In article <s9gb6o$ip7$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman 
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> 
> By how much would ransom-ware attacks be reduced if there were no 
> bitcoin and no anonymous internet?

Unclear.

The effects of Deny / Dissemble / Defer / Defend / Defund / Deter / 
Destroy and of AML & KYC and other responses to crime and fraud and 
particularly ransomware and to varying sorts of espionage are all open 
to debate.

Too many organizations deny or defer or dissemble on topics of data 
security and privacy and accept the risks and consequences around the 
threats of ransomware and data breaches, while others can and do choose 
to defend.

Defunding and deterring and destroying are national and international 
discussions, and with international requirements or repercussions.

An anonymous internet is valuable to us all, for as long as we might 
still have that. If we even still have that in an era of 
increasingly-ubiquitous and pervasive surveillance.

Do ask some folks that are not in your relatively charmed social 
position about why they either don't post, or why they post 
anonymously. If they're willing to answer. Some of us are targets of 
harassment, of abuse or of massive abuse, or of threats of violence up 
to and legally-sanctioned death sentences.

Cryptocurrencies are speculative investments and regulatory-arbitrage 
schemes at best, and self-organizing pyramid schemes and/or massive 
frauds at worst, and that all usually doesn't end well for all but the 
earliest investors. If it works out at all. Proofs-of-work and 
proofs-of-space algorithms are just stupidly-consumptive designs in 
general too, as those necessarily must be structured and provisioned to 
always detect and defend against 51% "attacks".


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