Posts tagged "programming"
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Aged Personas
Getting locked out of your e-mail account is terrifying. It’s called Account Takeover, and folk pay it the most heed, but there’s something that will slay you just the same: Impersonation Fraud. That’s when some miscreant makes out to be you. Age your cheese! Don’t serve up curds, easy to despoil. What do I mean? I mean that you should prove your online persona is old. Here's one way how.
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Atalanta: Monero's Reservist Army
Here’s the follow-up to a recent post about Qubic’s attack on Monero’s blockchain. There, I argued that Behavioral Economics was the answer. Otherwise, people can just play the ‘loose/aggressive’ tactic until it works. It would be wrong, however, to think that technical strategies don’t play a part. This post is an add-on. It will get pretty nerdy. I think Monero needs something like a wasp’s sting. It needs a way of causing harm to them who would cause it harm.
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Openalias Resolver Security Measures
Have you used openalias-resolver.org yet? If not, first read about OpenAlias here and here. Openalias-resolver.org is my web app for translating OpenAlias addresses, and also helping you to make your own one. It's useful because of many features...
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Q&A: Atalanta- Monero's Reservist Army
(This won’t make much sense unless you’ve read two prior posts. First, a summary and analysis of the attack on Monero (XMR) that uncovered its weaknesses; and second, my proposal for a reservist army playing a video game, Atalanta, to respond to future attacks.)
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Tether Wallet: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
I like my Cake Wallet, but its purple color is a smidge too dark. Edge works swimmingly— particularly its in-app trades— but the font is 1 pt too small. That rules out Sparrow Wallet too, which has the wrong font altogether. Meta Mask comes in handy, but it doesn’t support Coopcoin (COOP) on Algorand. I jest of course. What the world does not need is another crypto wallet app.
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Two Kinds of Centralization
Recently, I wrote that, by calling it a 'Central Bank Digital Currency', it's too narrow, our scope of wariness. The ‘Central Bank’ part is not to be sneezed at. Just don't end up watching for wolves and getting mauled by a bear. It’s the centralized aspect itself which demands vigilance. If our form of money is centralized, then expect it to be conquered. This might come as a dramatic takeover, but more likely would happen with bribery and blackmail behind the scenes. I want to flesh this idea out with examples. Specifically, I want to look at the two main kinds of centralization with a cryptocurrency: centralized ‘mining’ (i.e. the minting of digital currency) and centralized development.
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