Why They Are the Future of Commerce & Much More Date: April 3, 2018, 7:30 pm Location: Danbury Hospital Creasy Auditorium Presenter: Mike Kaltschnee We have heard about blockchain technology more than once during general meeting presentations. I believe the first time was John Patrick’s … [Read more...]
October 2017 Review: The Ransomware Risk
By John Kinkopf "If you create anti-malware products, the days of looking something up in a virus definition file are long gone," warned our speaker Chris Furey. Chris is a founder, managing partner and chief technical officer of Danbury-based Virtual Density. Virtual Density is in the business … [Read more...]
Envisioning Bitcoin’s Technology at the Heart of Global Finance
Think back to John Patrick's May, 2016, presentation... The technology at the heart of Bitcoin is the blockchain, also called a distributed ledger. Is it a solution looking for a problem or is it about to become a part of world banking? This article has many interesting links to more information. … [Read more...]
May 2016: John Patrick on Net Attitude
As Bert Goff noted in his introduction, this was John R. Patrick’s 24th presentation at a DACS General Meeting. We invite him back because we learn something new every time. Year after year, John’s presentation is always our best-attended meeting. The kicker to all this is that it really puts the … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld by Jamie Bartlett 2015 Melville House Cyberspace, if I may use that term, is often divided into distinct parts. The news media does this every day, providing convenient compartments into which they stuff everything from politicians to television … [Read more...]