Whoppercoin 2.0

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While cryptocurrency has been around too long to qualify as a fad anymore, it's use by Burger King is just a marketing gimmick. It's not even the first time they've done it, but at least this time they're using established coins instead of making up their own shitcoin.

Secret ballots on public ledgers

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I should be surprised that anyone thinks blockchains and elections are a good fit, but I'm not. There are people who think blockchains are good for everything.

Old crypto never dies

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It's not just MD5 that won't go away, apparently Cloudflare found (among other things) that TripleDES is still around after all these years too.

And It Would Be Disastrous If It Did

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The feds are still fighting Apple in the courts, still filing huge, desperate motions that nobody really wants to read, and still complaining that the people don't agree with their interpretation that the all writs act gives them carte blanche to tell companies to do whatever they want.

Dear Feds...

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Listen, I'm not trying to be mean, but you folks and your 'front doors' are being dumb. Demanding discussion about this in the face of experts telling you it won't work is like bible-thumpers demanding the controversy about evolution be taught alongside evolution.

Do You Have A Moment To Discuss Our Lord And Saviour, Biometrics?

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People say passwords aren't good enough anymore, but the alternatives aren't much better.