EPErik Poupaertinerik.hashnode.dev·Apr 8, 2022 · 2 min readA software strategy to prevent the invention of new lawsGreenpeace notoriously complained about the supposed energy wastefulness of Bitcoin: Watch: How Bitcoin is Fueling the Climate Crisis and a Software Change Could Clean It Up Thankfully, Bitcoin’s code can be updated to avoid all the “work” required ...01D
EPErik Poupaertinerik.hashnode.dev·Nov 16, 2021 · 4 min readTrusting trust, the unsolved security problemWhat is the trusting trust problem? Schneier on Security, Countering "Trusting Trust" Way back in 1974, Paul Karger and Roger Schell discovered a devastating attack against computer systems. Ken Thompson described it in his classic 1984 speech, “Ref...00