Since 2013, NSA Worked to “Track Down” Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: March 20, 2018 at 7:04:48 PM EDT
> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Since 2013, NSA Worked to “Track Down” Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal  
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> Since 2013, NSA Worked to “Track Down” Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal  
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> Sam Biddle
>
> Internet paranoiacs drawn to bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, 
> controversial digital currency. Increasingly popular among get-rich-quick speculators, bitcoin started out as a 
> high-minded project to make financial transactions public and mathematically verifiable — while also offering 
> discretion. Governments, with a vested interest in controlling how money moves, would, some of bitcoin’s fierce 
> advocates believed, naturally try and thwart the coming techno-libertarian financial order.
>
> It turns out the conspiracy theorists were onto something. Classified documents provided by whistleblower Edward 
> Snowden show that the National Security Agency indeed worked urgently to target bitcoin users around the world — and 
> wielded at least one mysterious source of information to “help track down senders and receivers of Bitcoins,” 
> according to a top-secret passage in an internal NSA report dating to March 2013. The data source appears to have 
> leveraged the NSA’s ability to harvest and analyze raw, global internet traffic while also exploiting an unnamed 
> software program that purported to offer anonymity to users, according to other documents.
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> https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/the-nsa-worked-to-track-down-bitcoin-users-snowden-documents-reveal/



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