Human folly for 02015-12-09

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• Bitcoin founder Craig wrights home raided by Australian police (theguardian.com):

  #Craig-Wright, possibly #Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, has just had his house raided (for tax evasion).

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of whether #Craig-Wright is #Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto.

• We now have a good text editor for your genetic code (aeon.co):

  explains the importance of #CRISPR to #genetic-engineering, although very naughty reporter avoids using the name “CRISPR”

• BitTorrent still dominates internets upstream traffic (torrentfreak.com):

  criminal syndicate Sandvine reports that BitTorrent traffic is 28.56% of upstream internet traffic in North America (at peak hours) but only 2.67% of downstream, with Netflix at 37%, YouTube at 18%, and other HTTP at 6% ahead of it.

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Discussion of “the hostile #email landscape” from a couple of months ago, about how it’s hard to set up new mail servers these days.

• Courion acquires core security (coresecurity.com):

  Core Security was acquired by Courion.

• Preocupacion por Las designaciones al Frente de la afi (vialibre.org.ar):

  #Argentina’s spying system is to be put under the control of someone who doesn’t know much about it.