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Nothing you can do stops this code from watching you online

20 November 2017

Code originally written to optimise websites bypasses https and incognito browsing to harvest and share everything you type online, from passwords to sensitive medical data
Bitcoin mining uses more energy than Ecuador – but there’s a fix

Bitcoin mining uses more energy than Ecuador – but there’s a fix

30 October 2017

Cryptocurrencies and the blockchain they run on already slurp as much energy as some countries, and as they go mainstream, something needs to be done

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