CLOSING KEYNOTE - Amber Baldet

38 Pages·2012·2.09 MB·English

CLOSING KEYNOTE
Security is what
we make of it:
Amsterdam blockchain & beyond
2018
@AmberBaldet | #HITB2018AMS
$whois Amber Baldet
Previously: Lectures, panels, etc:
➔ Executive Director, JPMorgan ➔ Defcon, Empire Hacking, SOURCE
(Blockchain Program Lead)
➔ MIT Media Lab, Wharton, Duke,
➔ Chair, Financial Industry Working Harvard Business, NYU, Columbia
© Hello Louis, cryptopop.net
Group, Enterprise Ethereum
➔ Money 20/20, American Banker
Alliance
➔ Hyperledger, EEA, Consensus, etc.
Currently:
➔ Unemployed
Likes:
otters, memes, otter memes
Dislikes:
patriarchy
How Blockchain could Bitcoin Transactions
help us take back control Aren’t as Anonymous as
of our privacy Everyone Hoped
The Cambridge Analytica breaches Web merchants routinely leak data
show the dangers of leaking personal, about purchases. And that can make it
sensitive data online – but there’s a straightforward to link individuals
way to avoid this with their Bitcoin purchases, say
cybersecurity researchers.
Hahaha, why
don’t you just
Do I need a
blockchain?
use a database?
No
Usually, you can
And sometimes, you could,
but there are human
reasons why centralized
solutions failed to gain
traction
And in other cases, we have,
but they are inefficient,
expensive and/or have
failed disastrously
It’s not just a database...
It’s not just a database...
:
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There is no cloud
It’s just someone else’s computer
It’s not just a database… it’s
worse
:
: : :
( ( ( (
There is no cloud There is no blockchain
It’s just someone else’s computer It’s just all of our computers