Content tagged with “crypto” under “The Interesting List”

“ A company uses never-ending video of a wall of lava lamps to generate unpredictable encryption keys for their software. ”

“ A man in Wales was a very early Bitcoin miner. He has 8,000 Bitcoin in a wallet for which the only key is on a hard drive he accidentally threw away. ”

“ A new trend in art is the sale of encrypted files which are guaranteed to be unique and only have a single unencrypted copy. ”

“ Using just conference call video, researchers can reverse-engineer your shoulder movements to figure out what you’re typing with surprising accuracy. ”

“ A mysterious Bitcoin wallet has been dormant since 2015 and contained almost $1 billion. On election night, whomever had access to it suddenly moved all the money out. ”

“ Some investigators took a redacted deposition, and using its own index, they cracked the redactions like a cypher. ”

“ A hypothetical discussion of what might happen if Google got hacked. ”

“ A good explainer of ‘numbers stations,’ which are radio frequencies that broadcast series of numbers on a schedule. It’s assumed they’re communicating to spies in the field, but no one knows for sure. ”