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Kittens, Pr0n, and Bad Juju in the Blockchain

July 2, 2017

Modern digital currency mostly seem to revolve around a construct called a blockchain, which – by design – is a (mostly![1]) append-only distributed database that is intended to keeps all...

code, crypto, hack, philosophy, security

d3ck, d3ck, goose

May 13, 2015

A bit over 2 years ago I started on a journey that has become a bit surreal; I had what seemed like a modest goal, simply create something that would...

art, audit, dinosaur, philosophy, security, tech, work

<3 Policy

December 8, 2014

Security Policies Let us praise, slay, and bury security policies together. A security policy is perhaps the best way to deal with the security monster. It concerns itself with business and...

crypto, philosophy, security, tech, web

certificates and security

August 5, 2014

npm is the defacto package manager for the node.js javascript network programming environment thingee. The folks who make npm have taken a security leap: npm no longer supports its self-signed certificates...

audit, data, philosophy, security, tech

The Dynamic and Depreciating Value of Computers

July 6, 2014

I wrote this while I was at my company Elemental, and was meant for engineers to implement, so despite some of the very specific language for implementation purposes it was never meant to...