money & guns

A guide by the “Chaos Computer Club” in Germany (who just published the latest edition of their magazine with plastic versions of German Secretary of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble’s fingerprint inside) explains how to produce a usable physical copy of anyone’s fingerprint left carelessly on a glass, door handle, or magazine.  It looks ridiculously easy.  [...]

[Read more →]

If you already read “Gold, Silver, and Copper-jacketed Lead“, and doubted what I or Rick Falkvinge had to say, check out this article: “Squanderville versus Thriftyville” by the the richest man in the world.

[Read more →]

The subject of this post is an article, originally from The Nation, on asset forfeiture and conflict of interest in the drug war.  Except, saying it that way is glibly misleading.  The article really illuminates, whether the authors know it or not, one of the primary underlying motives of the War on Drugs—namely an additional [...]

[Read more →]

As is fitting, my first post here will relate to both money AND guns.  But first some administrative notes.
I chose the domain moneyandguns.com because it was available and not lame and didn’t really care whether anything I ever wrote here had anything to do with either.  Everything else I’d thought of in the preceding weeks [...]

[Read more →]