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Home :: Internet 05 Sep 2018 GDPR didn't affect spam? Not so fast. Internet I have recently become aware of a blog post from Recorded Future that attempts to analyse the effects of the GDPR on online security. Unfortunately, it starts by asking an irrelevant question, and then goes on to use irrelevant metrics to come to a meaningless answer. The premise of Recorded Future's article -- that spammers would send more spam and register more domains because GDPR came into effect -- tells us nothing useful about how GDPR affects anything. It's the wrong question, it's not a question most security people are concerned with, and it ignores how spam and spammers work. See more ... posted at: 11:11 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/recorded-future.html 12 Feb 2018 Why is it so hard to run a Bitcoin exchange? Internet One of the chronic features of the Bitcoin landscape is that Bitcoin exchanges screw up and fail, starting with Mt. Gox. There's nothing conceptually very hard about running an exchange, so what's the problem? See more ... posted at: 22:55 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/bithard.html 01 Feb 2018 How many people can you pay with bitcoins? Internet An aquaintance wrote: I think it's an open question as to whether that belief can sustain a meaningfully high Bitcoin price. There has never been a currency or asset that has been so easily tradable among every person in the world (even among anonymous people). ... See more ... posted at: 13:15 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/bitsome.html 28 Jan 2018 How do you turn a typesetting language into an identifier system? (Not easily) Internet Unicode's goal, which it meets quite well, is that whatever text you want to represent in whatever language, dead or alive, Unicode can represesnt the characters or symbols it uses. Any computer with a set of Unicode type faces and suitable layout software can display that text. In effect, Unicode is primarily a typesetting language. Over in the domain name system, we also use Unicode to represent non-ASCII identifiers. That turns out to be a problem, because an identifier needs a unique form, something that doesn't matter for typesetting. See more ... posted at: 22:59 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/uniid.html 22 Oct 2017 The hack back bill in Congress is better than you'd expect Internet Rep's Graves and Sinema recently introduced H.R. 4036, the catchily named Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act or ACDC act which creates some exceptions to criminal parts of computer crime laws. Lots of reports have decried "hack back" but if you read the bill, it's surprisingly well targeted. See more ... posted at: 16:31 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/hackback.html

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