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Sheriff’s Deputies Confirm Newsweek’s Bitcoin Quotes

by SusannahGiles Posted on March 8, 2014

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Newsweek’s Leah McGrath Goodman claims that she’s located the reclusive Bitcoin inventor “Satoshi Nakamoto.” Earlier today, I suggested that (a) her primary piece of evidence was a brief conversation she had with Nakamoto in front of his home with sheriff’s deputies present, and (b) this could be pretty easily checked. Sure enough:

The San Gabriel Valley suburb of Temple City was inundated by reporters Thursday after Newsweek alleged resident Dorian Nakamoto was really “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the man behind the virtual currency. In the Newsweek article he is quoted as telling the reporter “I’m no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it” while deputies are present.

….Capt. Mike Parker said he has spoken to both deputies who responded to the suspicious persons call on Feb. 20. He said “one of the two deputies had heard of bitcoins but only knew vaguely about them” prior to the call. He said the reporters’ statements and questions about Bitcoin prompted the conversation.

“Both sheriff’s deputies agreed that the quotes published in the March 6, 2014, Newsweek magazine Bitcoin article that were attributed to the resident and to one of the deputies were accurate.”

Count this as very big piece of evidence that Goodman’s reporting is accurate and that Temple City’s Dorian Nakamoto really is the inventor of Bitcoin. It’s not quite a smoking gun, but it’s getting there.

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Did Newsweek Dox the Wrong Satoshi Nakamoto?

by RafaelClopton Posted on March 7, 2014

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Is Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto of Temple City, California, the same “Satoshi Nakamoto” who invented Bitcoin? Newsweek’s Leah McGrath Goodman says he is in a cover story here, and Felix Salmon does a good job of running through the evidence here. Matt Yglesias is skeptical:

Here’s the question of Newsweek’s Bitcoin “scoop,” as I understand it—is the fact that a person is named “Satoshi Nakamoto” good evidence that the person in question is the originator of Bitcoin? If it is, then all of the other evidence regarding this particular Satoshi Nakamoto is telling….But absent the name, there is very little here.

I don’t agree. The key evidence is this conversation that Goodman had with Nakamoto in front of his home:

Tacitly acknowledging his role in the Bitcoin project, he looks down, staring at the pavement and categorically refuses to answer questions.

“I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it,” he says, dismissing all further queries with a swat of his left hand. “It’s been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection.”

Nakamoto says he was misunderstood. His English isn’t great, and he was just referring to no longer being an engineer. Goodman, however, says this is nonsense. “I stand completely by my exchange with Mr. Nakamoto. There was no confusion whatsoever about the context of our conversation — and his acknowledgment of his involvement in bitcoin.”

In any case, this is the key piece of evidence. If Goodman is right, then Nakamoto is now covering up after making a momentary slip. But if Goodman stretched the quote a bit to make it sound cleaner than it was in real life, then Nakamoto is very likely in the clear.

Last night there was some chatter on Twitter about whether Goodman’s story sounded right. She made a mistake identifying LA County sheriff’s deputies as “police officers from the Temple City, Calif., sheriff’s department,” for example, and some of her quotes seem a little too good to be true. Personally, I wasn’t persuaded. The former is a minor error, and I didn’t find the quotes all that hard to believe. What’s more, Goodman was very transparent about how she tracked down this story and what her sources were. There’s nothing obscure about any of it. It’s a very, very public story and, thanks to Goodman’s transparency, one that’s pretty easy to check. If Goodman made any of it up, she sure chose a very spectacular way to commit career suicide.

All that said, Karl Smith has a piece at FT Alphaville that compares some of Dorian Nakamoto’s writing to that of the Nakamoto who wrote the original Bitcoin proposal. He’s pretty persuasive that they don’t seem to match. This isn’t a smoking gun or anything, but it definitely gives us fresh reason to be skeptical.

In any case, tracking down the real identity of “Satoshi Nakamoto” is hard, but I suspect that verifying whether Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto of Temple City is the same guy isn’t. One way or another, I have a feeling that someone is going to clear this up definitively within a week or two. Maybe sooner.

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In New Jersey Pines, Trouble Arrives on Six Legs

by Myrna Posted on December 1, 2013

A beetle invasion of New Jersey’s Pinelands, said to be caused by global warming, has drawn little attention, and scientists say the state has been too slow in its response. More:  In New Jersey Pines, Trouble Arrives on Six Legs ; ;Related ArticlesOff the Shelf: ‘Climate Casino’: An Overview of Global WarmingDot Earth Blog: What if Christmas Trees Had a Holiday?Dot Earth Blog: Giving Musical Thanks on Thanksgiving ;

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Photographer W. Eugene Smith’s Very, Very Big Retrospective

by Melissa Robin Posted on October 28, 2013

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Out this week, W. Eugene Smith’s The Big Book, officially titled The Walk to Paradise Garden, actually consists of three books: The original mock-up of Smith’s unpublished, self-selected retrospective has been broken into two volumes, and there’s a third book containing text, essays, and thumbnail images. Big doesn’t do it justice: This is massive. University of Texas Press, in conjunction with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona pulled out all stops in reproducing it.

The back story is as follows: In 1959, Smith began work on the ultimate representation of his photography. Putting it together gave Smith, who is legendary for his fierce opinions on which images magazines used and how they presented them, the freedom to challenge traditional photo storytelling. He grouped images in a lyrical, literary fashion rather than chronologically or according to which story they belonged to. The mock-up took him three years to finish, but the book has remained unpublished until now. It was too big and costly for any publisher to seriously consider. As it languished through the ’60s, Smith contemplated amending the unwieldy book to include newer work.

The publication is a facsimile of Smith’s original maquette, a delicate object made of photocopied images rubber cemented on calendar paper and bound with bookbinder’s glue that’s become brittle over time. It’s incredible to see the pages exactly as Smith laid them out, with pencil marks and notes. And while it’s true to the original, the photocopied images look, well, like images reproduced on a photocopier from the early 1960s. They were reproduced for the maquette using an Agfa Copyrapid, an early photocopier. The image quality varies, with some looking like muddy black and white blotches, identifiable to fans of Smith’s work, sure, but not the casual viewer. Others are a bit more recognizable, but still exceptionally contrasty due to Smith’s original copy process for the mock-up. Thumbnails in the third volume provide gorgeous but small reproductions of the images, in order of appearance, with information about the photos. The Big Book really is a treasure for researchers, scholars, serious photographers, and fans of Smith’s work, as well as that particular breed of person who fetishizes the photobook. This is one for you.

Despite the image quality, it’s hard not to appreciate the effort to stay true to the original, which almost resembles Japanese photobooks from the early ’70s (think PROVOKE photographers Nakahira, Moriyama, and Takanashi). Looking at the high quality thumbnails in Volume 3 might make you crave seeing the full-size photos in such clear detail. But that would defeat the purpose of this particular publication. Still, it’s hard not to wonder what the quality-obsessed Smith would think of having Agfa Copyraid versions of his precious photos reproduced en masse.

The Big Book comes packaged in a sturdy slipcase emblazoned with two of Smith’s more famous photos: the “Frontline Soldier with Canteen, Saipan” and “Steelworker With Goggles,” from the Pittsburgh Project. The whole shebang includes 466 photos. A massive, rare treat for people who are obsessive about photography.

(University of Texas Press, October 2013; 9.75 x 12.75, 448 pages)

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Court Decision Allows NSA to Search its Database for American Records Without a Warrant

by Traci B. Jackson Posted on September 8, 2013

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Ellen Nakashima has an oddly downplayed story in the Washington Post today. As we all know, the NSA collects massive amounts of both domestic and foreign communications, which it stores for years. It’s allowed to search this database, but under the Bush administration they could only search for names and email addresses of foreign targets. Two years ago, however, the Obama administration got permission to perform searches using the names and email addresses of American residents:

The court decision allowed the NSA “to query the vast majority” of its e-mail and phone call databases using the e-mail addresses and phone numbers of Americans and legal residents without a warrant, according to Bates’s opinion. The queries must be “reasonably likely to yield foreign intelligence information.” And the results are subject to the NSA’s privacy rules.

The court in 2008 imposed a wholesale ban on such searches at the government’s request, said Alex Joel, civil liberties protection officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The government included this restriction “to remain consistent with NSA policies and procedures that NSA applied to other authorized collection activities,” he said.

But in 2011, to more rapidly and effectively identify relevant foreign intelligence communications, “we did ask the court” to lift the ban, ODNI general counsel Robert S. Litt said in an interview. “We wanted to be able to do it,” he said, referring to the searching of Americans’ communications without a warrant.

Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have issued warnings about this, but secrecy rules kept their warnings vague. Now, however, it’s public knowledge:

“The surveillance Court documents declassified recently show that in late 2011 the court authorized the NSA to conduct warrantless searches of individual Americans’ communications using an authority intended to target only foreigners,” Wyden said in a statement to The Washington Post. “Our intelligence agencies need the authority to target the communications of foreigners, but for government agencies to deliberately read the e-mails or listen to the phone calls of individual Americans, the Constitution requires a warrant.”

Senior administration officials disagree. “If we’re validly targeting foreigners and we happen to collect communications of Americans, we don’t have to close our eyes to that,” Litt said. “I’m not aware of other situations where once we have lawfully collected information, we have to go back and get a warrant to look at the information we’ve already collected.”

So there you have it. When the NSA sweeps up this data in the first place, it says no individualized warrant is necessary because it’s merely storing the information, not “collecting” it. Collection only happens when an analyst performs a search and looks at the stored content. But now they’re saying that even when analysts explicitly search for U.S. names and get some hits, this means they just “happen to” have collected the communications of Americans. And once that’s happened, why should they have to go back and get a warrant for records they just “happen to” have collected? As long as they think it’s “reasonably likely” to yield foreign intelligence information, they should be able to go right ahead. And now they can. Lovely.

UPDATE: One reason this might not have gotten a lot of play from the Post is that much of it has been previously reported. There’s some new stuff in the Post account, but the basics were reported last month by James Ball and Spencer Ackerman in the Guardian. Click here for the story.

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Wealth Matters: Seeking Investments That Are Profitable and a Little Bit Green

by Donekola Posted on September 6, 2013

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Wealth Matters: Seeking Investments That Are Profitable and a Little Bit Green

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Economic Scene: Coming Full Circle in Energy, to Nuclear

by Myrna Posted on August 20, 2013

In the post-oil embargo quest for energy alternatives, nuclear power stumbled and coal surged. It may be time to reverse that. See the original post: Economic Scene: Coming Full Circle in Energy, to Nuclear ; ;Related ArticlesDot Earth Blog: Could Climate Campaigners’ Focus on Current Events be Counterproductive?Europe Set to Impose Sanctions on Faroe Islands Over HerringBare Trees Are a Lingering Sign of Hurricane Sandy’s High Toll ;

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Economic Scene: Coming Full Circle in Energy, to Nuclear

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Bare Trees Are a Lingering Sign of Hurricane Sandy’s High Toll

by Myrna Posted on August 20, 2013

In storm-damaged neighborhoods throughout the city, trees, plants and shrubs have died or are dying by the thousands, the city parks department said. View original article: Bare Trees Are a Lingering Sign of Hurricane Sandy’s High Toll ; ;Related ArticlesDot Earth Blog: Could Climate Campaigners’ Focus on Current Events be Counterproductive?Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on WarmingEconomic Scene: Coming Full Circle in Energy, to Nuclear ;

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Bare Trees Are a Lingering Sign of Hurricane Sandy’s High Toll

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Could Climate Campaigners’ Focus on Current Events be Counterproductive?

by Myrna Posted on August 20, 2013

As environmentalists stress current events in calling for action on greenhouse gases, some scientists see a different path toward public engagement. See more here –  Could Climate Campaigners’ Focus on Current Events be Counterproductive? ; ;Related ArticlesA Closer Look at the Technical and Behavioral Barriers to Action on Global Warming‘Liberated Carbon, It’ll Turn Your Night to Day’Is the Internet Good for the Climate? ;

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Advertising: Clearing the Air on Diesel’s Dismal Reputation

by Myrna Posted on August 13, 2013

BMW is using a humorous new campaign to promote its diesel cars to consumers in the United States, where the engines were never really popular. Credit –  Advertising: Clearing the Air on Diesel’s Dismal Reputation ; ;Related ArticlesOil Reforms by Mexico May Upend MarketsNational Briefing | South: Florida: State Plans Suit Over WaterBy Degrees: Timing a Rise in Sea Level ;

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