In what appears to be the latest move in this administration’s total incompetence with regards to critical government tech infrastructure, MITRE announced yesterday that funding had run out f…
Oh yes blockchain the solution to the world’s problem. Provided the world’s problem is that the current solution works too well and we don’t like that.
We need to back this data up but that doesn’t require anything anywhere near as complicated and over-engineered as blockchain, we can just have something as simple as multiple servers.
That works too, but who controls the servers, and how is the authority handled? Backing up the data is one thing, and that can be easily done I believe. But what about for future advisories? They are published via one of the authoritative servers and synced to the other authoritative servers? How is that information verified to ensure bad actors aren’t publishing bullshit information?
I don’t think blockchain is necessarily the answer. The whole thing can just be done with signing keys, yeah?
I know everyone hates on blockchain, but I think its kinda neat and would like to see some cool applications with it one day.
That’s an easy problem to solve you just hash the database. Blockchain is good at solving the problem when you don’t have a reliable central authority but if you do have a reliable central authority there’s no point adding blockchain to it.
And we already have the reliable central authority, we have the original database.
Oh yes blockchain the solution to the world’s problem. Provided the world’s problem is that the current solution works too well and we don’t like that.
We need to back this data up but that doesn’t require anything anywhere near as complicated and over-engineered as blockchain, we can just have something as simple as multiple servers.
That works too, but who controls the servers, and how is the authority handled? Backing up the data is one thing, and that can be easily done I believe. But what about for future advisories? They are published via one of the authoritative servers and synced to the other authoritative servers? How is that information verified to ensure bad actors aren’t publishing bullshit information?
I don’t think blockchain is necessarily the answer. The whole thing can just be done with signing keys, yeah?
I know everyone hates on blockchain, but I think its kinda neat and would like to see some cool applications with it one day.
That’s an easy problem to solve you just hash the database. Blockchain is good at solving the problem when you don’t have a reliable central authority but if you do have a reliable central authority there’s no point adding blockchain to it.
And we already have the reliable central authority, we have the original database.