In the light of the jolly good rave: "REA, Triple-Entry Accounting and Blockchain: Converging Paths to Shared Ledger Systems" by IbaƱez et al, just out recently, I've been thinking of the relati...
Tweet thread: This is a great research attack on a SWIFT-using payment institution (likely a British bank allowing the research to be conducted) from Oliver Simonnet. But I was struck by how the ...
Watching an argument (I started) (on the Internet) about Apple dropping iCloud encryption (allegedly) reminded me of how hard it is to get security & privacy right. What had actually happened was...
Way back in the 1980s, Yuji Ijiri came up with the idea of momentum accounting, which he also called triple entry bookeeping. This is a distinct idea to the triple entry we typically talk about i...
Danny Nelson Coindesk Two members of the prolific Romanian hacker gang Bayrob Group were sentenced to two decades in U.S. prison apiece after their malware mined crypto on 400,000 infected comput...
A post on Matthew Green's blog highlights that Snowden revelations helped the push for HTTPS everywhere. Firefox also has a similar result, indicating a web-wide world result of 80%. (It should b...
@lochaiching reminds me that I made a 2 x 2 matrix of the 4 competing Types of Identity: To be read with the earlier piece "4 Types of Identity". This is just a thought experiment to see if there...
"Access to Cash Review" confirms much that we have been warning of as UK walks into its future financial gridlock. From WolfStreet: Transition to Cashless Society Could Lead to Financial Exclusio...
From the annals of web research: A thriving marketplace for SSL and TLS certificates...exists on a hidden part of the Internet, according to new research by Georgia State University's Evidence-Ba...
In the video I did a few years ago, I explored 4 notions of Identity. These have seemed to survive some scrutiny, a little test of time. It appears a bit easier to call them by labels, but words ...
None of us love terrorists. A few of us study and admire warfare and revolutionary spirit and history and daring battles, but that doesn't match actual facts on the ground. War is 1% heroism and ...
Finally, an actual financial system & terrorism case lands before the courts, relating to the Dusit attack. Is this a world first? I don't know because this conjunction is so rare, nobody's track...
7 years after we called the cancer that is criminal activity in Bitcoin-like cryptocurrencies, here comes a report that suggests that 4.3% of Monero mining is siphoned off by criminals. A First L...
Writes Andreas Antonopolous, a noted Bitcoin commentator, that he has been impersonated with a mere scan! More than anything else this points at the fallacy of Identity Documents as the God of ou...
So says NIST... 10 years ago I annoyed the entire crypto-supply industry: Hypothesis #1 -- The One True Cipher Suite In cryptoplumbing, the gravest choices are apparently on the nature of the cip...