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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...

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...

audit, code, DARPA, data, fast track, ipmi, python, security, tech

ITAR

February 26, 2013

Well, not really.  Actually I.tar.gz.  In the gzip’d tar there are 3 files; little IPMI/BMC configuration file sucker, a suggested set of security recommendations that could be checked, and an...

cars, data, embedded, forensics, government, science, security, tech

In logs we trust

February 15, 2013

It’s a mess. The NYT wrote a fairly scathing review of the new Tesla roadster, and Tesla fires back (summary here).  Both sides have – or feel that they have...

data, DB, government, tech

3.66+ million can’t be wrong

May 15, 2012

So I got a CD in the mail with the WA state voter information; it has 3.66M active records (and something close to 5M total; they say something like 6.8M...