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Title: [2016-12-10] Blockchain Voting System Wins Kaspersky Lab Cybersecurity Contest Post by: Vladdirescu87 on December 10, 2016, 08:45:11 PM Kaspersky Lab, an internationally recognized computer protection firm, in partnership with The Economist have recently held a challenge inviting teams from universities around the world to design a system for digital voting that addressed such issues as ensuring privacy and validating contested results.
Three students from the New York University – Kevin Kirby, Anthony Masi, and Fernando Maymi – won the first place in the Cybersecurity Case Study challenge with their system, Votebook, which is secure, scalable, and consistent with current voter behavior and expectations of privacy. As per the rules of the challenge, Votebook is based on blockchain technology, which creates a distributed, irreversible, incontrovertible public ledger that has been described as double-entry accounting for the digital age. You can read more info here: https://coinidol.com/blockchain-voting-system-wins-kaspersky-contest/ Title: Re: [2016-12-10] Blockchain Voting System Wins Kaspersky Lab Cybersecurity Contest Post by: Kprawn on December 13, 2016, 07:59:50 PM They have a competition for Blockchain technology, but they do not accept bitcoin as a payment method for the upgrades for their Anti-virus
products. You can buy the full package via online retailers, but you cannot pay with bitcoin for upgrades. They have a very good and effective AV Solution, but they still using payment options that are flawed. ::) |