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Cleveland's blockchain conference, Solutions, to take place in December

Cleveland will host its first blockchain conference, Solutions, Dec. 1-4.

: Updates; Posted On Monday, 23 July 2018 15:09; Hits: 264

Convincing Banks Of Trade Finance Tech Value

Blockchain-based solutions have only just begun to launch in the financial services market, but considering the volume of interest in deploying blockchain tools to address the massive $1.5 trillion trade finance gap, it appears as if the niche could quickly become saturated with distributed ledger technology (DLT).

: Updates; Posted On Friday, 20 July 2018 14:29; Hits: 274

Crypto Network Effects

Cryptocurrencies are often valued in terms of network effects. Network effects are emergent properties that occur when the value of a network increases with the number of its nodes.

: Updates; Posted On Thursday, 19 July 2018 22:01; Hits: 341

Why Shouldn't a Free American Carry Hundreds of Thousands of Bucks in a Trader Joe's Paper Sack?

Entrapment prosecution of bitcoin exchangers highlights government's war on privacy.

: Updates; Posted On Tuesday, 17 July 2018 21:15; Hits: 157

Tackling Terrorism 3.0: Cultural, Cryptocurrency and Dark Web Challenges

The shift by terror organizations to the web around 2005 (Al Qaeda, et al.) moved terrorism from the confines of print material and phone conversations into the mainstream.

: Updates; Posted On Monday, 16 July 2018 20:15; Hits: 296

Trade War’s Ripple Effect Means Currency, Commerce, Payments Waves

Amid the swirl of headlines that focus on the back and forth between China and the United States, and the continuing escalation of tariffs, the ripple effects and casualties will be far-reaching.

: Updates; Posted On Friday, 13 July 2018 21:57; Hits: 359

Does the NSA have a backdoor to Linux?

Most likely yes.

1. On one hand, Linus Torvalds himself admitted that he was approached by the US government to add a backdoor. We don’t know the outcome of that encounter.

2. On the other hand, there are mechanisms to embed malicious code in opensource, as proved by Ken Thomson since 1984, even if someone does review the code, by just changing the compiler (http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/7...).

3. Last, a lot of backdoors can be in the form of very subtle bugs in the software, that depend on timing and weird conditions that are almost impossible to catch. Since NSA contributed themselves software into the kernel (SELinux) they have more than opportunity.

To be honest at this stage it doesn’t matter that much, since they are just another attack vector. Since there can even be hard disk firmware rootkits (Hard Drive Rootkit Is Frighteningly Persistent), I think we can safely assume that each operating system is compromised by default.

By Bogdan Mustiata
source: quora.com

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: Updates; Posted On Friday, 13 July 2018 15:21; Hits: 357

Ledger finally has a good app for its crypto wallet

French startup Ledger has been working for a while on a brand new app to manage your crypto assets on your computer.

: Updates; Posted On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:31; Hits: 307

Medicine’s blockchainification is imminent, say researchers

A report published in the International Journal of Health Geographics has medicine pegged to be the first industry completely revolutionised by the blockchain – but it won’t be easy.