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257. Red Team Blues (ft. Cory Doctorow)

This Machine Kills

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Cryptocurrency and the Idiot Plot

The new cryptocurrency is based on something called secure enclaves. These are the secure co-processors or specialized areas of your main processor in your phone and other device that is used to do certain kinds of secure computing. And so this is a way for you to tell someone else who doesn't trust you that your computer is configured in a certain way. It all made me think, of course, about another Betnou R of yours, the Hollywood and this is exactly Hollywood accounting to a T.

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