Blockchain for Voting: A Warning From MIT
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Researchers Say Blockchain Introduces More Problems Than It Solves Blockchain technology has been floated as a solution to enable remote, electronic voting.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Researchers Say Blockchain Introduces More Problems Than It Solves Blockchain technology has been floated as a solution to enable remote, electronic voting.
National Archives Records Express
APRIL 12, 2024
We are pleased to announce the release of a briefing paper on the records management implications of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). In 2019, NARA issued a white paper on Blockchain , describing how the technology works, how it is being used in the federal government, and the potential implications for records management.
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National Archives Records Express
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
We are pleased to announce the release of our Blockchain White Paper. The white paper began as an internal effort to assist NARA staff in learning more about the technology and how agencies are using it.
IBM Big Data Hub
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
These challenges include a combination of paper-based and digital processing, slow processing, ambiguity and a loss of trust in the market. Arup and IBM® saw these recommendations as an opportunity to take a leadership role and propose the implementation of a blockchain-enabled water trading platform.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Blockchain voting is a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze : Why is blockchain voting a dumb idea? You may have heard of Voatz, which uses blockchain for voting. And this is my general essay on blockchain. Glad you asked. I’ve also quoted this XKCD cartoon.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 17, 2021
Now the content-delivery network Akamai has reported on a new method: a botnet that uses the Bitcoin blockchain ledger. Since the blockchain is globally accessible and hard to take down, the botnet’s operators appear to be safe. What if someone puts illegal material in the blockchain? That’s how the system works.
National Archives Records Express
OCTOBER 1, 2022
We are pleased to announce the release of a white paper on the records management implications of Quantum Information Science and Technology (QIST). This is the third in a series of white papers—the first one being Blockchain (2019) and the second Cognitive Technologies (2020).
Weissman's World
APRIL 17, 2017
Though blockchain […]. The post Reimagining Information Governance with Blockchain appeared first on Holly Group.
ARMA International
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Blockchain is often defined as ledgers with entries organized in an append-only, sequential chain using cryptographic links and distributed out and stored on a peer-to-peer computer network. Chapter 2, “The Creation and Storage of Blockchain Records,” is about what records are generated by and stored in blockchain systems.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 17, 2023
This protection is implemented by special return codes (Prüfcode), printed on the sheet of paper you receive by physical mail. Unfortunately, the protocol isn’t explained to you on the piece of paper you get by mail. Since the website doesn’t know what’s on the paper, that web-form entry is just for show.
CILIP
JANUARY 24, 2020
Honey, I blockchained the library. Honey, I blockchained the library. re in a similar place with blockchain ? blockchain? It can be quite fascinating to see how blockchain?s Periodic interventions are often needed to avoid regression to the mean, which is where a MacGuffin (like blockchain) can be especially handy.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 28, 2022
If you want the privacy of paper money, you need something that leaves no paper trail.
CGI
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Transforming trade through hybrid blockchain solutions. Often, the process begins with a basic request between a buyer and a seller and then grows into a complicated and paper-intensive activity. Often, the process begins with a basic request between a buyer and a seller and then grows into a complicated and paper-intensive activity.
eDiscovery Daily
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
Now, Tom has written another terrific overview regarding blockchain and legal technology titled Understanding Blockchain and its Impact on Legal Technology that we’re happy to share on the eDiscovery Daily blog. I first started paying attention to blockchain at ILTACON17 when I noticed how often it was cited in security sessions.
Info Source
AUGUST 23, 2018
For a few years now, Harvey Spencer Associates has been promoting blockchain as a natural extension of capture technology. The Harvard Business Review describes blockchain as “an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way.”
IG Guru
JANUARY 30, 2020
Pat Franks chaired this latest whitepaper on Blockchain’s Role and Risks in Systems. The post White Paper: Understanding Blockchain’s Role and Risks in Trusted Systems via 3DPDF Consortium appeared first on IG GURU. Dr. Pat Franks is a professor at San Jose State University and is a well-known expert in RIM and IG.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
The annual cryptographer's panel took on issues of privacy and how new crypto-technologies apply to it in today's digital world.
eDiscovery Daily
MARCH 3, 2019
Now, Tom has written another terrific overview regarding blockchain and legal technology titled Understanding Blockchain and its Impact on Legal Technology that we’re happy to share on the eDiscovery Daily blog. General Use Cases for Blockchain. Several actual examples may show the actual utility of blockchain.
eDiscovery Daily
MARCH 26, 2019
If you think you’re hearing more and more about blockchain and bitcoin, you’re probably right. Blockchain is even being discussed as having potential application in legal technology and electronic discovery. Topics include: History of Blockchain and Bitcoin. How Blockchain Works. Advantages and Challenges of Blockchain.
CGI
DECEMBER 12, 2016
Riding the blockchain wave in trade finance. Trade finance, whether conducted on a domestic or international basis, can be a paper-intensive, costly and risk-laden proposition, involving not just companies importing and exporting goods and services but also their banks, insurers and others. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Mon, 12/12/2016 - 22:35.
The Texas Record
APRIL 24, 2019
“ What blockchain means for records management ” — GCN. ” “Blockchain” is the latest technology buzzword mostly discussed alongside cryptocurrencies, methods of exchanging money using cryptography for security. Friday says, “Prick your ears and read about this important information!”
eDiscovery Daily
MARCH 6, 2019
If you think you’re hearing more and more about blockchain and bitcoin, you’re probably right. Blockchain is even being discussed as having potential application in legal technology and electronic discovery. Topics include: History of Blockchain and Bitcoin. How Blockchain Works. Advantages and Challenges of Blockchain.
CGI
MAY 15, 2018
The time for government blockchain proofs of concept is now. For the past two years, CGI has seen an exponential uptick in commercial sector interest in blockchain beyond just the financial services industry. Many government agencies also have been wading deeper into the blockchain waters. Tue, 05/15/2018 - 06:29.
CGI
MAY 4, 2018
Is blockchain a solution for your organization? When the topic of blockchain came up, my colleague said something very insightful that stuck with me. So how do you cut through the noise to know if blockchain is the solution you are looking for? It’s not as cool as blockchain, but what is? Depends on the problem.
eDiscovery Daily
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
As you may have seen yesterday, Tom O’Connor has written his latest terrific informational overview series for CloudNine about blockchain that we will be covering in a six-part series over the next couple of weeks. Besides that, we’ve long known that just as blockchains have unique security features, they have unique vulnerabilities.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
This paper describes the flaws in the Voatz Internet voting app: " The Ballot is Busted Before the Blockchain: A Security Analysis of Voatz, the First Internet Voting Application Used in U.S. Federal Elections.". Abstract: In the 2018 midterm elections, West Virginia became the first state in the U.S.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 10, 2024
Not so long ago, you had track down your defendant and hire someone to physically serve them with a copy of the court papers. The message uses what’s known as an “ OP RETURN ,” or an instruction of the Bitcoin scripting language that allows users to attach metadata to a transaction — and thus save it on the blockchain.
IG Guru
JANUARY 31, 2020
White Paper. The post White Paper – Data Protection Law: An Overview by Congressional Research Service appeared first on IG GURU.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
Fuller discovered that the INVDoS flaw could be exploited by an attacker by using malformed Bitcoin transactions that, when processed by Bitcoin blockchain nodes, would lead to uncontrolled memory resource consuption, which would trigger a DoS condition (i.e. ” reads the paper published by the expert. ” continues the paper.
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 10, 2022
That might sound like a non sequitur – isn’t Web3 supposed to be about technological marvels like the blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and “the metaverse” – whatever that is? And most importantly: What problem is Web3 trying to solve? A Matter of Philosophy. At its core, Web3 is a philosophy.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Related: Blockchain’s role in the next industrial revolution. On the technology front, blockchain systems signal the type of shifts that need to fully unfold. And the Wildland white paper touches on this, as well. As for Wildland’s blockchain features – Wildland itself is blockchain independent and free to use.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 20, 2023
On January 20, 2023, The Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth published “Digital Assets and Privacy,” a discussion paper compiling insights from workshops with CIPL member companies that explored the intersection of privacy and digital assets, with a particular focus on blockchain technology.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
According to a report published by blockchain analytics company Chainalysis, the Hive ransomware is one of the top 10 ransomware strains by revenue in 2021. ” reads the paper published by researchers from Kookmin University ( South Korea ). ” continues the paper.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 5, 2018
Ross Anderson has a new paper on cryptocurrency exchanges. However if Alice sends Bob a bitcoin, and they're both customers of the same exchange, it just adjusts their balances rather than doing anything on the blockchain. The paper. From his blog : Bitcoin Redux explains what's going wrong in the world of cryptocurrencies.
Security Affairs
JUNE 30, 2022
According to a report published by blockchain analytics company Chainalysis, the Hive ransomware is one of the top 10 ransomware strains by revenue in 2021. reads the paper published by researchers from Kookmin University (South Korea). “To
AIIM
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
When I was a young child, in an era when school papers had to be researched in libraries with card catalogs and shelves upon shelves of books, my father had the bright idea to purchase a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica. Things like Robotic Process Automation (RPA) , Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Blockchain , and machine learning.
IBM Big Data Hub
AUGUST 7, 2023
Blockchain databases were designed to enhance trust in centralized ecosystems by incorporating tamper-evidence features into traditional databases. However, existing blockchain databases lack efficient tools for multiple parties to control shared data on the ledger.
Data Matters
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued two investor alerts, on July 27 and August 16 , regarding blockchain tokens and ICOs. It is important for industry participants to understand the regulatory framework prior to launching blockchain solutions. securities laws.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 28, 2018
Ross Anderson has a really interesting paper on tracing stolen bitcoin. Ilia Shumailov has written software that applies FIFO tainting to the blockchain and the results are impressive, with a massive improvement in precision. Suppose I open a new address and pay into it three stolen bitcoin followed by seven freshly-mined ones.
Data Matters
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Distributed ledger and blockchain-based projects are being launched in a wide range of different industries, from retail consumer goods to pharmaceuticals and electricity and power networks to global shipping. In this respect, 2019 was a productive year for regulators when it came to cryptoassets and blockchain/distributed ledger technology.
Data Matters
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Distributed ledger and blockchain-based projects are being launched in a wide range of different industries, from retail consumer goods to pharmaceuticals and electricity and power networks to global shipping. In this respect, 2019 was a productive year for regulators when it came to cryptoassets and blockchain/distributed ledger technology.
ARMA International
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. More recent technology trends include Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) and Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS). Blockchain, Provenance, and Authentic Information. Customer Data Platforms (CDP).
AIIM
JANUARY 10, 2018
In 5 years we will all be in flying cars, robot maids vacationing on Mars and data will ALL be electronic no more paper. Ok maybe not, but I do think we will have a lot to look forward to with AI and Blockchain I'm excited to see this next wave of technology advance our processes. What do you see as the next big impact?
CGI
JANUARY 21, 2020
Non-banks and other entities, including FinTechs, often perceive trade banks as slow moving, paper intensive and ripe for disruption. Blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT). The sheer size of the trade finance sector is drawing many new market entrants, which are often non-banks offering bank-related services. .
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