Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week of 1/13/24
A grad student discovered cryptocurrencies are not anonymous, Smartphone ambient light sensors can spy on you, Cyberscams suck China into Myanmar's conflict, more
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How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
in an excerpt from his book Tracers in the Dark, Wired’s Andy Greenberg tells the story of how a grad student, Sarah Meiklejohn, discovered that despite Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s claim that the digital currency is anonymous, its blockchain actually enables “researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than …
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