Information Security with Occasional Forays into Other Realms
via Matt Cutler, writing at HackerNoon, regales us with the concept of Chainsplaining (the notion of mansplaining Blockchain). Interestingly, Matt's kicked off a new series going beyond chainsplaining at BlockNative, riffing on his previous post. Friday's Must Read...
Would you really trust this guy with your hard won simoleans? With the stunning criminal behavior, almost complete lack of honesty, and evidence of political manipulation at a national scale, a Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) owned and operated cryptocurrrency targeting a critical component of our economy is the last thing any thinking person would want to participate in... Perhaps the next player in this areana will be Organized Crime...
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
Easily the most egregiously moronic idea I've heard this month (and it's only 5 days in(!) - stay tuned - pretty sure there will be others)... Would you sell your DNA data on the Blockchain? Enjoy!
'It is not easy putting a dollar value on the human genome, so only time will tell if these innovative, blockchain approaches to genetic data trading will pay off for individuals.' via James Levenson, writing at Bitcoinist
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.
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.
Like a compromised sewage conduit, Coinhive's morally questionable Monero-mining scripted architecture (as evidenced by the successful DNS attack on the organization's site) is now poisoning the body politic with (both) the inherent evil of their product, and their apparent collective security stupidity. Witness the groups latest DNS breach explanatory blog post. Astounding... Where is Dr. Evil when we need him?
Another well crafted video explaining the Coco Framwwork and Blockchain componentry from Seth Juarez and Mark Russinovich.
Very well crafted, well presented and on target video, comprising blockchain content from Seth Juarez and Mark Russinovich. Deemed today's Must View video. Enjoy (and consider having your parents, grandparents and most of all your kids watch as well).
Eh, wot? New Kids on the Blockchain? No - simply put, it's the proliferation of Blockhain technology (in this case distributed database schema) into industrial processes. via the UK's The Engineer, and writer Andrew Wade, comes the news of said blockhain spread. Today's MustRead!
Well-now... a tightly-coordinated and well-crafted primer targeting Bitcoin and Ethereum, two ponderously heavier-than-air subjects, weighed down by lucre of-a-sort, and the need for encrypted fungibility. Enjoy.
Fascinating screed via Phil Windley writing at his site - Technometria on decentralization and governance - this time dealing with ledgers, blockchain and otherwise.
