{"id":1768,"date":"2017-11-01T00:18:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2018-04-25T18:30:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T18:30:47","slug":"news-securing-plutonium-unsecuring-trezor-twitter-nhs-wannacry-lse-review-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/11\/01\/news-securing-plutonium-unsecuring-trezor-twitter-nhs-wannacry-lse-review-of-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Securing plutonium, unsecuring Trezor, Twitter, NHS WannaCry, LSE review of the book"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Blockchain! It can keep food from spoiling! It can ensure against overfishing! It can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cryptoanalyst.co\/2017\/10\/21\/blockchain-nuclear-security\/\">keep plutonium secure!<\/a> Apparently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bitcoiner forgets password to 7 BTC! Fortunately, he recovered it via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/i-forgot-my-pin-an-epic-tale-of-losing-dollar30000-in-bitcoin\/\">security flaws<\/a> in his sooper-secure Trezor hardware wallet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I endeavour not to use rude words on this blog myself, but I must heartily recommend the Blockchain of Shit <a class=\"twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blockofshit\" data-mentioned-user-id=\"900455861616816129\"><s>@<\/s><b>blockofshit<\/b><\/a> Twitter for all your distributed ledger technology needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I mention the NHS WannaCry ransomware attack in chapter 7 of the book\u00a0\u2014 no ransom paid, no data loss, IT staff spent the weekend reimaging client PCs. The National Audit Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\/report\/investigation-wannacry-cyber-attack-and-the-nhs\/\">report on the incident<\/a> is just out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The book was reviewed in LSE Business Review: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/businessreview\/2017\/10\/30\/blockchain-and-bitcoin-in-search-of-a-critique\/\">Blockchain and bitcoin: In search of a critique<\/a>, about how there&#8217;s a ton of Bitcon and blockchain books\u00a0\u2014 &#8220;a fair number of these books are frankly deranged, offering no real explanation of how these technologies work or how they will live up to the promises made&#8221;\u00a0\u2014 and nary a critical voice. And he likes mine and thinks it does the job. I spoke to the author, Martin Walker, a couple of months ago for an interview that&#8217;s lined up to appear once the other parts of the article it&#8217;s for are done. Any time now!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As of today, I have sold 2379 copies of the book: 1786 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B073CPP581\">Kindle<\/a>, 41 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/739078\">Smashwords<\/a>, 48 <a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/boYYpL\">Draft2Digital<\/a>, 504 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1974000060\/\">paperbacks<\/a>. I have no idea how this happened, but I love you all. <b>KEEP TELLING EVERYONE YOU KNOW!<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just recommended blockchain as the solution to a problem and now I will be sobbing in the shower for the next 8 hours if anyone needs me<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; thaddeus e. grugq (@thegrugq) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thegrugq\/status\/923864073191567360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve also sold a surprising and pleasing number of books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,193,6,194,206,71,70,192,72],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain","tag-blockchain-of-shit","tag-links","tag-lse-business-review","tag-martin-walker","tag-nhs","tag-ransomware","tag-trezor","tag-wannacry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}