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For the majority of time blockchains have been around, holding cryptocurrency necessarily involved jumping through hoops and doing business with a Wild West of unknown, unregulated fintech startups that specialized in providing on/off-ramps to digital ass…

Learning the wrong lessons from Internet Exploder [sic] Previous posts have alluded to the role certificate authorities play— or at least are expected to play when operating effectively— in response to discovery of digitally signed malware.

A malleable operating system Windows often gets a bad rap for pulling in other Microsoft technologies and services for providing functionality—think Edge defaulting to Bing.

[This is a follow-up on a previous blog post on QCC, the Quining C Compiler which is designed to transform any single-file C program into a valid quine.]

Is it possible to create an application that behaves differently based on which website it is downloaded from?

There is great uncertainty about when “Q-day” arrives for blockchains— when a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC for short) will exist that can recover private keys that control major digital assets, such as bitcoin and ethereum.

An earlier post from 2025 covered the case of ScreenConnect, a popular remote-administration utility developed by the vendor ConnectWise for IT administrators to remotely manage Windows PCs.

Often the first application of a technology turns out to be its worst proving grounds.

Backed into a corner Blockchains are confronting the challenge of quantum computing with renewed urgency as more researchers continue to sound the alarm.