The Rundown March 7, 2020
How 4 Chinese Hackers Allegedly Took Down Equifax - I am trying to build and compile scenarios for a data breach simulation exercise. This looks like a good basis for a premise.
Yes, absolutely, it is easy to conceive of a smart contract that would pay you for appreciation on my house. And we could get together and hash out exactly the events that would trigger it and how we'd calculate the appreciation and so forth. But how would we find each other? How would millions of people find each other and hash out these deals? If the deals are going to be standardized and aggregated, how do we know we can trust the standardizers and aggregators? Won't they be subject to securities regulation? Shouldn't they be?
Roundup suit lawyer accused of $200 million extortion plot - A question for my Legal Ethics class - how can you distinguish between a demand letter and blackmail?
Need a loo fast? Book a ‘mobile toilet’ trailer on your smartphone - I’m a big fan of Toto and its washlet autobidets, but this is starting to sound so late capitalism.