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Who Owns The Digital You? (Part 1)

24 Dec 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Tchambers

I wrote this originally in 1999,  at my main blog, before efforts at Self-Soveriegn Idenity, or #Web3. Was true then, even more true now.“Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, Fifties and Sixties it was civil rights. The next two decad...

Zarcanum (ZPoS) — Zano's Private Proof of Stake Scheme with Confidential Transactions and Hidden Amounts

24 Dec 2021 6 minute read 1 comment Zano

Any information that a digital cash system reveals about its users is information that bad actors could use against them. The Proof of Stake consensus system has been routinely rejected by projects that put user privacy (and consequently user securit...

Cybersecurity Insights video interview - Growing Cyber Risks of Firmware with Scott Scheferman

22 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Firmware is the little-talked-about component of every digital device and computer system, that possesses tremendous control, and is now being targeted by cyber attackers.   In today’s Cybersecurity Insights podcast, I am talking with Scott Scheferm...

Privacy Concerns for Dual-Use AI Image Clarity Tools

15 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

AI tech is a powerful tool. The original photo (left) was cleaned-up with an AI deep learning algorithm (Image source: from Murilo Gustineli) and restoring tremendous clarity. The AI researchers outline their progress in their white paper Towards Re...

Tari, A Privacy Oriented Digital Assets Management Protocol

15 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments supersane

Tari is the brainchild of the former lead maintainer of the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency, Riccardo Spagni (aka: fluffy pony) who is currently just a standard maintainer of the Monero project. Monero is the gold standard in privacy preserving cryptocu...

How Important Is Financial Privacy?

14 Dec 2021 4 minute read 0 comments RitabeII

The desire for financial privacy is at a record high. Remember the Panama Papers? That hasn’t been so long, yet we have another leak on our hands – the Pandora Papers. Regardless of what side of the divide you might be, these leaks point to one thing...

The world’s most secure and private messaging app

12 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tux3do.crypto

Alter is the first private and secure alternative to emails and messaging apps by using blockchain technology, encryption network and digital signatures. It's a decentralized email service providing a secure data integrity sharing model, with the us...

Privacy Matters: How Does Adshares Contribute to Society?

12 Dec 2021 4 minute read 4 comments SocioCrypto

March 17, 2018, the Guardian published an article in which Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, revealed that Facebook had given Cambridge Analytica a grant to collect data from millions of Facebook users without their consent. U...

Ads trackers and invasive practices, can we be better? #WhatIsAdshares

12 Dec 2021 3 minute read 2 comments MetaG4l

If you have an online business of any type (maybe you are a budding writer) you may want to find a little more out about your reader. You may use advertising services or other metrics platforms to track your audience providing you with good perspecti...

Sienna: A Private Decentralized Exchange and Lending Protocol on Secret Network

5 Dec 2021 3 minute read 0 comments 2sats

*obligatory not financial advice*   What is Sienna? Sienna is a DeFi protocol running on the Secret Network blockchain. It already has a decentralized exchange and will soon launch a lending protocol, like Aave or Compound. What makes Sienna interest...