Month: April 2017

Eine Automatenapotheke mit Videochat von Docmorris ist nicht zulässig, hat das Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe entschieden. Der Kunde in einem badischen Dorf ohne Apotheke sollte dort verschreibungsfreie Arzneimittel bestellen und Rezepte nach Prüfung einlösen können. (Onlineshop, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)

Eine Spionagesoftware für Android, die den Aufenthaltsort der Nutzer an Angreifer melden kann, blieb über Jahre unentdeckt. Die App brauchte seit 2014 nicht einmal ein Update, um der Erkennung zu entgehen. (Google Play, Virus)

Wie entscheidet ein Computer? Die Verbraucherzentralen fordern eine unabhängige Instanz, die Algorithmen überprüft, die Entscheidungen für einen Nutzer treffen, etwa bei der Stellenauswahl. (VZBV, Technologie)

BitTorrent’s inventor is known for his passion for puzzles, and more generally speaking, offering elegant solutions to complex problems through lines of code.

When Bram Cohen first launched BitTorrent he offered a solution to the bandwidth scarcity problem, by allowing anyone to distribute large files without having to invest in expensive infrastructure.

In recent years Cohen has closely followed the cryptocurrency boom. Not as a money hungry investor with dollar signs in his eyes, but as a programmer who sees problems that need solving.

In doing so, Cohen hasn’t shied away from offering his opinions and suggestions. Most recently, he presented a paper and a talk at the Stanford blockchain conference, discussing proofs of space and proofs of time.

Without going into technical details, Cohen believes that Bitcoin is wasteful. He suggests that a cryptocurrency that pins the mining value on storage space rather than processor time will be superior.

In an interview with TorrentFreak’s Steal This Show, Cohen revealed that his interest in cryptocurrencies is not merely abstract. It will be his core focus in the near future.

“My proposal isn’t really to do something to BitCoin. It really has to be a new currency,” Cohen says. “I’m going to make a cryptocurrency company. That’s my plan.”

By focusing on a storage based solution, BitTorrent’s inventor also hopes to address other Bitcoin flaws, such as the 51% attack.

“Another benefit of storage based things is actually that there’s a lot less centralization in mining. So there’s a lot less concern about having a 51% attack,” Cohen says.

“Sometimes people have this misapprehension that Bitcoin is a democracy. No Bitcoin is not a democracy; it’s called a 51% attack for a reason. That’s not a majority of the vote, that’s not how Bitcoin works.”

While the idea of a storage based cryptocurrency isn’t new, Burstcoin uses a similar concept, there is little doubt that Cohen believes he can do better. And with his status and contacts in the Bitcoin developer community, his project is likely to gain some eyeballs.

Before diving into it completely, Cohen will first finish up some other work at BitTorrent Inc. But after that, his full dedication will go into creating a superior cryptocurrency.

“In the next few months I’m going to devote myself full-time to the cryptocurrency stuff,” Cohen concludes.

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The full interview with Bran Cohen is available here, or on the Steal This Show website.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

SK Hynix hat die Verfügbarkeit von GDDR6 für Anfang kommenden Jahres angekündigt, eingesetzt wird er offenbar auf einer Nvidia-Grafikkarte. Die Datenrate der Chips soll 16 GBit pro Sekunde betragen, ein Drittel mehr als bei GDDR5X-Speicher. (Hynix, Grafikhardware)

Wer nur die Hälfte der versprochenen Datenrate erhält, soll auch sofort automatisch nur die Hälfte zahlen. Die Verbraucherzentralen wollen den Missbrauch des Kundenvertrauens beenden. (Provider, Verbraucherschutz)

Das Archiv des Internets will der Robots.txt-Datei einer Webseite künftig keine Bedeutung mehr beimessen. Der Schritt sei notwendig, weil die Datei einer echten Archivierung des Internets aus Nutzersicht entgegenstehe, schreiben die Macher. (Internet Archive, Datenschutz)

This week we have three newcomers in our chart.

Logan, which was released as a HDrip with hardcoded Korean subtitles last week, is the most downloaded movie again.

The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.

RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.

This week’s most downloaded movies are:

Movie Rank	Rank last week	Movie name	IMDb Rating / Trailer
Most downloaded movies via torrents
1	(1)	Logan (Subbed HDRip)	8.6 / trailer
2	(6)	The Fate of the Furious	7.4 / trailer
3	(2)	Kong: Skull Island (Subbed HDRip)	7.0 / trailer
4	(…)	Get Out (Subbed HDRip)	8.1 / trailer
5	(3)	Split	7.0 / trailer
6	(…)	Rings	4.5 / trailer
7	(4)	La La Land	8.4 / trailer
8	(…)	The Boss Baby (HD-TS)	6.5 / trailer
9	(5)	Rogue One	8.0 / trailer
10	(8)	Ghost in The Shell (HDTS)	6.9 / trailer

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

Risiken durch Injections, Fehler beim Session Management und XSS bleiben weiterhin hoch. Im vorliegenden Entwurf finden sich neben bekannten Sicherheitslücken jedoch auch zwei neue Top-10-Kandidaten. Wir stellen die wichtigsten Änderungen und deren mögliche Folgen vor. Eine Analyse von Tim Philipp Schäfers (Security, Datenbank)

Die Apps von Amazon, Ebay und Google Maps werden nicht mehr für die Apple Watch angeboten. Wer die iPhone-App für die Uhr aktualisiert, verliert die Anwendungen. (Apple Watch, eBay)