“Our research and development team worked for a year on developing techniques for providing financial investigators with analysis tools. There is much work still to be done, but CipherTrace is proud to announce the world’s first Monero tracing capability.”

Is CipherTrace full of hot air?

I think the consensus (heh) was "mostly yes".

moneromooo: "mostly"?

Well, you can never be sure :)

My recollection, which is a bit hazy, what that they probably mostly relied on information spied from exchanges etc, and that their chain analysis was probably mostly crap.

IIRC there was another company that didn't boast, and that was thought to have better analysis.

Those who can, do, those who can't, boast :)

But in the end, we can't know for 100% sure.

is there any formal proof of the privacy of cryptonote moneromooo ?

Try the CN whitepaper, or the papers from MRL (mrl.getmonero.org IIRC).

hrm, no surprise the T61 is beating the aspire

gingeropolous: How old is the Aspire?

its got an AMD C-50. so pretty old