Inside Registered Agents Inc., the Shadowy Firm Pushing the Limits of Business Privacy

Since 2008, Dan Keen has grown his business from a small company serving customers in the Pacific Northwest to a major national player in what’s known as the corporate formation industry. The company and its competitors offer the ability to incorporate a business in the state of a customer’s choosing and receive mail and legal … Read more

How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity

When Meiklejohn started college at Brown in 2004, she discovered cryptography. This branch of computer science appealed directly to her puzzle addiction—what was an encryption system, after all, but another secret language demanding to be deciphered? There was a maxim in cryptography, often referred to as Schneier’s law after the cryptographer Bruce Schneier. It asserted … Read more

$70M Powerball winner, who was pressured to disclose her id, is now a fierce advocate for anonymity

A Michigan Powerball winner is working to advocate for lottery winners to have the choice to stay nameless. Cristy Davis’ id was used with out her consent upon profitable a $70 million Powerball jackpot, so she’s preventing to make sure it does not occur to others. In accordance with Michigan state regulation, people who win … Read more

‘On the Web, No person Is aware of Your a Canine’ Cartoon Is for Sale

In 1993, cartoonist Peter Steiner was at his desk attempting to fill out his weekly quota of pitches for the New Yorker. “I didn’t at all times have sufficient concepts, so generally I might simply draw an image and attempt to dream up a caption for it,” Steiner mentioned. He sketched out two canines sitting … Read more