Fudgy McFarlen

Slur Website –

Research Links

Slur is an open source, decentralized and anonymous marketplace for the selling of secret information in exchange for bitcoin. Slur is written in C and operates over the Tor network with bitcoin transactions through libbitcoin. Both buyers and sellers are fully anonymous and there are no restrictions on the data that is auctioned. There is no charge to buy or sell on the Slur marketplace except in the case of a dispute, where a token sum is paid to volunteers.

Touted as Wikileaks 2.0

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Android Applications – Investigations into how safe they are to install

Research Links

I use quite a bit of open source software and the protection mechanism is that the code is open and can be inspected by capable programmers across the globe.  If you use the popular software that is widely used you can be relatively sure of problems being discovered quickly.  

What about with installing apps into your android based phone?   There are two business models.  Advertising and selling the application.  It appears selling apps is an uphill battle.  So most rely on advertising.

What is the business model? Is there incentive for malware etc?

SleepBot – I want to use this app and thus will be using it as an example to investigate.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Source of Cheap RV’s

The oil fields of North Dakota are going bust so I am told.  Rough necks are bugging out for home and leaving the RV's they've been living in.

Research Links

There may or may not be some housing deals to be had when this completely shakes out.  It's only a matter of time before oil comes back.  But how much time is anybodies guess.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago