The Petard Pinch →
The Petard Pinch video is comprised two versions: A Subtitled version appears first, then once the subtitled version compleats, a British Sign Language version is displayed 4:20 in. via Gregg Ferro.
USENIX Enigma 2019, Noah Johnson's 'Building A Secure Data Market On Blockchain' →
outstanding conference videos on their YouTube Channel
PGP, Under Duress
While the mechanics of certificate signing have been flawed for an extended length of time, it is high-time for the so-called 'PGP ecosystem' (as Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai put's it, whilst writing at Vice) to be overhauled and dragged into the bright new future of battling modern attack vectors and other shiny things...
Did You Check The Post-It Under The Keyboard?
via Dan Goodin, Security Editor at Ars Technica, writing of the apparent lack of access governance surrounding a locked crypto-wallet (of course it's locked - Virginia, it's a cryptocurrency wallet...right?) has caused a 'digital exchange' to 'lose' $137 Million Simoleans. Oops.
The Phenom →
Of so-called smart-contract honeypots... via Gerhard Wagner. H/T
"Hardly a week passes without large scale hacks in the crypto world. It’s not just centralised exchanges that are targets of attackers. Successful hacks such as the DAO, Parity1 and Parity2 have shown that vulnerabilities in smart contracts can lead to losing digital assets worth millions of dollars." - via Gerhard Wagner
Cryptocurrency Versus Rationale Thought →
Easily the most rationale piece on Cryptocurrency yet, in what may become the de riguer Ridiculous Mantra of Cryptocurrency, Paul Ford, holds forth on the reality of coinage, as it were. Today's Must Read.
"That all of this adds up to money is ridiculous, and we should probably mock it more than we do" via the inimitable Paul Ford, scrivening at the illustrious Bloomberg Businessweek
RaaS - Ransomware As A Service →
Very bad tidings greets us on Monday morning... via the always enlightening journalism of Catalin Cimpanu, writing at Bleeping Computer. Catlain reports the latest Something As A Service - is, in this case, Ransomware As A Service; the kicker in this is (again, reportedly): The service is free. Very bad news, indeed...
Alert the Media: NIST Ponders Blockhain →
via George V. Hulme, writing at DXC.Technology, comes a superlative blog post targeting Blockchain, and it's meteoric rise to the top of the bright and shiny things list (at least for those interested in such baubles...). At any rate, George's fine article details the National Institute of Science and Technolgy's (NIST) take on that rise. Today's Must Read.
Negative Factorization of Cryptocurrency →
Well crafted reportage/speculative piece on the negatives of cryptocurrency via Matthew Leising and Rob Urban - writing at Bloomberg; in which the details of human psychology (as that psychology relates to both markets and cryptocurrency) are laid bare. Today's MustRead.
UPS Blockchained →
United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS) has announced the delivery leviathan's participation in the Blockchain In Transport Alliance (BITA) - via Chelsea Gohd, writing at Futurism. Ostensibly, the utilization of blockchain cryptographic infrastructure will minimize - to a vestigial nubbin - the guesstimated multi-billion dollar losses {in reality, the exact figure is unknown...} - incurred by the transport industry due to crimiminal incursion into the coffers of transportation companies worldwide.
