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Locks, Keys, and Firewalls — Why Internet Security Requires Digital, Analog . . . and Diligent Humans

Internet security seems to be crumbling before our eyes, and our media and leaders are not immune and lack a crucial understanding of how vulnerable a totally digital world can be. The answer may lie with analog technologies.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Aug 10, 2016
  • 6 Comments

Bitcoin: A Solution to Publisher Authentication and Usage Accounting

The technology developed to create a crypto-currency may be used to solve two intractable problems in scholarly publishing: authenticating users and counting usage.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 1, 2016
  • 16 Comments

Bitcoin and Flash Traders — Leveraging Scarcity Within the Internet's Infrastructure

Two ways to leverage scarcity in the computer world are worth examining, because they represent baffling new ways for the rich to get richer.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 10, 2014
  • 7 Comments

Contemplating Bitcoin — Is This a New Currency? Or a New Type of Scam?

A new form of cybercurrency is edging into the mainstream, but is it something we should embrace or repel?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jun 6, 2011
  • 11 Comments

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