The unhackable internet : how rebuilding cyberspace can create real security and prevent financial collapse / Thomas P. Vartanian.

Author/creator Vartanian, Thomas P. author.
Format Book
PublicationEssex, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2023]
Descriptionxxi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : candlesticks are nice -- Part I. Lost in cyberspace. The next financial black hole -- The illusion of online security -- Is virtual order possible? -- For our next act! -- How the cyber got into space -- Part II. The virtualization of money. The next great train robbery -- Will the real Satoshi please stand up? -- Data lollapaloozas -- Part III. The long and winding road or cyber insecurity. The eve of destruction -- The genesis point of virtual finance: 1994-2000 -- An insecure worldview emerges: 2001-2008 -- Distractions, diplomacy, and cyber threats: 2009-2016 -- Running in cyber circles: 2017-2020 -- Wake up and smell the qubits: 2021 and beyond -- Part IV. Really real virtual reality. Virtual shootouts -- Call the internet repairman -- The ingredients of a safer internet -- Part V. Alternative interests. If you build it, they will click -- The new watchers -- This shouldn't be the way the world ends.
Abstract "This incisive and important book investigates the creation and history of our financial Internet, the vulnerabilities of our current data storage and sharing platforms, the pitfalls and potential that cryptocurrency holds, the promise that quantum computing and the blockchain offer, and how we can - and must - make a stronger and safer Internet"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Vartanian, Thomas P., Unhackable Lanham : Prometheus Books, 2023 9781633888845
LCCN 2022017257
ISBN9781633888838 hardcover
ISBN1633888835 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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