Information Security & Occasional Forays Into Adjacent Realms
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 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
via the inimitable Iain Thomson, writing at El Reg, comes a tale of Stench and Coin. Today's Cryptocurrency Must Read.