Robert -- where are you licensed to practice engineering? And in what
capacity/field?
one of the rallying cries of the crypto crowd is 'trust the math.' I
don't, because math doesn't exist in the abstract. Its relationship
to engineering is obvious: engineers implement math, they make it
real,
one of the rallying cries of the crypto crowd is 'trust the math.' I
don't, because math doesn't exist in the abstract. Its relationship
to engineering is obvious: engineers implement math, they make it
real, make it happen. Its relationship to law is less obvious. I
Actually, most engineers
Edinburgh, May 24 2015
Back in late April, an invitation [1] was circulated around the School
of Informatics which asked academics for ideas about what projects
they should fund in the area of ``Cyber Defense''. Presumably the same
invitation went out to various universities and other
On 24 May 2015, at 7:09, William Waites wrote:
And so we have arrived at the economic problem. The business model of
advertising has the same basic requirements as mass
surveillance. Thwarting one by decentralisation and ensuring
confidentiality of communications means thwarting the other.
