Ultimate VPN

Few days back I had this thought, which was kind of based on technology I read about like Bit Torrent Live. Bit Torrent Live was a new protocol or client which allows the streaming of video feed, by allowing all the participants to re-broadcast what they received to other viewers who want to view that video.

The beauty of that is that the load of serving all those users individually by that same user decreases drastically as the first few users that load the stream send the data to the other new participants. So at one point the load on the first/primary broadcaster gets steady and the other receivers bear the remainder load by broadcasting.

Now what if, the browser, kept track of what users were online and then re-route the data sent or received to/from websites through the others using that browser? Thus accessing data blocked in one region through another user in an open region?

Its like the standard VPN, only the users are the servers!  :D

Jackpot!

Privacy, a Fallacy

Not many people pay attention to the privacy that we are giving up for the services that we are using which are actually really useful tools and helps us greatly in performing our work efficiently in our daily lives.

Now authorities say that they need access to the data to stop threats before they take place, but are there really much threats than scary things the government does behind our backs like the September 11 attacks, attack on Iraq when there were no weapons of mass destruction actually present? Just go to YouTube and search for conspiracies or details of those events, and you'll find damning evidence on the contrary of what the media in general shows us.

I don't watch news from these big media news houses nowadays because they show views of politicians and businesses who pay or coerce them into broadcasting favourable news.

Now back to the point , if you are in a country where all the services are available but they are all monitored and you need to organize a peaceful protest in multiple places and need to organize something through online means to protest against them then don't you wish you had the option to be able to communicate securely without being watched?

Funny thing is the US gov isn't just spying on terrorist elements they are even spying on foreign commercial enterprises!?!  What's the need for that? 

We need to slowly but surely move over our data and services used, to services that can assure that they can't in any way access our stuff, even if its at rest in their servers. All biggies say that all transmission is secure, even between their servers, but what about when the data is in their server?  They would say it's possible but really hard. No, why do you want to access it!

Only problem is that all those services cost money and they need to monetize it by serving up ads that are relevant. The only way that they'll know what's relevant is by going through our e-mails and documents to find out what words are frequent and accordingly use it to decide what ads to show.

I came across a service where one needs to install a client in their system and if possible allocate some space to it which would be used by the client to store some data of its own, and then in return it'll provide you with some space in its distributed cloud, half of what you provided to the client plus its standard offering.

In this service, the space provided by the users of the service is used to store the data of those users by splitting the data you want to store in the cloud into many small pieces, add error correcting code, encrypt it and then send it to 96 different locations. This is a really redundant way of storing data in a secure way.

It does require you to have an unlimited usage plan with a good enough connection bandwidth.

Bitcoin for Real

Scammers

Bitcoin, a crypto-currency, can never become what money really is. Recently Mt. Gox shut down,  and many people cannot retrieve their funds. Mt. Gox says they incurred losses due to the theft of Bitcoins, thanks to an issue in the Bitcoin protocol. Lots of people who did the coding say that its extremely difficult to recreate that issue and is not possible to do large sums, or that there is a problem in the Bitcoin wallet software that they were using not in the underlying protocol.

But in my opinion they just scammed the users. Worse yet, they were attacked by the NSA or GCHQ, so that they can crumble the Bitcoin. The Intercept website has a post regarding this, alongside pictures that are from slideshows presented in their covert meetings.NSA and GCHQ have vested interests in this because the government would not be able to control the movement of the currency, and also regulate the amount that can be inserted into the economy, which is actually the banks.

Donate Your Computer

Hey People, you must be aware of Bitcoin, now kinda famous for more Bad reasons than Good, and seems to be increasing in value, sometimes changing haphazardly, because it's value depends on how much currency has been invested in it to buy them Bitcoins, and also all those computers trying to mine those coins because the Bitcoin is based on mathematics and solving problems to create more units of Bitcoin by verifying the transactions involving Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Symbol

Thus, because of the low investment in resources and the high value of the coins lots of people install a software to remotely get their computers to work on those problems to earn Bitcoins that way. They use specific hardware configs specially designed to efficiently mine it.

ASIC Miner with GPU Array

Now researchers are saying

Mega Specs Mega Bloat

Yesterday I tried out two phones, one was the Galaxy S4 and the other was Note 3, because I wanted to purchase one soon. I have a Galaxy S2, one of the beasts of its time, but easily drains out serving a techie B)

My S2 has been rooted and flashed with CM 10.2 and after using Startup Manager and Clean Master is really slick. Maybe because I just have like 10 apps installed, but that's just about what I seem to use frequently, or may be used in the near future.