WarGames, a 1983 film, stars a young Matthew Broderick as a young PC genius who connects to a very sensible secret superpc that absolutely controls America’s nuclear arsenal. After his exploits triggered a countdown that nearly led to the third global war between the United States and Russia, a Hollywood finish allows Broderick’s character to save the day.
It would be even more absurd than this tale if Hollywood created a story in which a 17-year-old manages to bypass security on Twitter, take several popular accounts, add Elon Musk and Joe Biden, and then apply for Bitcoin with an anonymous name online. speaks to. However, by 2020, when the unforeseen is continuing, Mr Graham Ivan Clark is accused of having done just that. His “Crypto War Games” situation led him to a Florida court on charges of communications fraud and fraudulent use of non-public information, as well as access to unauthorized computers or electronics.
Clark appeared in the New York Times as a troubled young man, who had a history of stealing from others in connection with the video game Minecraft. In the end, the concept of a hacker who simply interrupts a giant social media channel with the sole purpose of stealing Bitcoin leaves Mr. Clark’s story more like that of a criminal than as the innocent hacking of a PC system.
Fortunately for the world, Clark’s movements were not about to be a terrorist or a criminal who could have done far more damage, especially with President Trump’s use of Twitter as a normal form of communication with the public. If something has come at a price through this man’s exploits, it’s probably the autopsy on how to protect social media platform forms in the future, as they have a common and popular means of communication.
Meanwhile, there’s the story of another “little genius” named Virgil Griffith, who was arrested for training in cryptocurrencies and blockchain in North Korea. For Griffith, 37, his success with piracy and coding on PC systems dates back to 2008, when he was described in a New York Times article as a “mystery man of the Internet.”
More than 12 years ago, it was a program called WikiScanner that Griffith evolved to determine whether corporations were updating Wikipedia stories for their benefit. Their solution was to determine whether the IP addresses of the downloads could be traced back to corporate buildings of corporations. In fact, Griffith filled his highest date in which he explained that his purpose was to “create small PR mistakes for corporations and organizations I don’t like.”
Unlike the unusual Bitcoin thief, Griffith plays a much closer role to our protagonist in WarGames, as a modern Renaissance man or as an Ethereum “cypherpunk”. Griffith is credited through Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, for his role as Ethereum’s leading scientist and researcher. Ethereum, noted as the next “advanced” progression of the blockchain after Bitcoin, is contemplating a new form of “Internet” that is not governed by the gigantic profits paid to giant generation companies.
With regard to the nickname cypherpunk, this user is an activist who advocates the widespread use of strong cryptography, a path to social and political replacement aimed at maintaining privacy in a fashionable world. However, for visionary Griffith, he took this concept to new degrees where he graduated from the undeniable progression of systems or platforms, either WikiScanner or Ethereum, and to move to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and offer a presentation. in ”Blockchain and Peace’.
Griffith, who faces fees for traveling to North Korea to teach the generation of cryptocurrencies and blockchain to evade economic sanctions, is lately awaiting trial at home with his parents in Alabama. Represented through the famous baker Marquat litigator Brian Klein who assists in cryptography defense cases, Griffith’s trial would possibly bring an end to Hollywood and place him running with Butereum at the Ethereum Foundation.
In the end, Griffith is the “Ethereum cypherpunk”, an activist on a project where being arrested is more an incidental byproduct of his hopes of achieving global peace through cryptography. Meanwhile, the world looks keenly at Clark, who, as a “Bitcoin thief on Twitter,” doesn’t have the promise of a young Griffith. For Clark, justice is likely to be company and fast, and most likely to teach other teens in the United States a lesson about the disastrous consequences of breaking into major social media platforms. For Griffith, it would possibly be more of the e-book contract or the film actor who will interpret his story: the story of the determined cypherpunk activist, from which Bitcoin was born in 2008 and around which the fast-growing crypto and blockchain. the industry continues. Grow.
I am a former U.S. FDIC regulator, compliance reviewer for the Making Home Affordable (HAMP) program with the Treasury, and I have been in bitcoin and
I am a former U.S. FDIC regulator, compliance reviewer for the Making Home Affordable (HAMP) program with the Treasury, and have been active in bitcoin and blockchain since 2016. I worked in the FDIC’s money markets and financial divisions during the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 developed into qualitative and quantitative issues covering IndyMac Bank, Washington Mutual, Wachovia, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Citigroup, Merrill and Bank of Lynch America. I supported the FDIC Board of Directors of IndyMac Bank with a deposit analysis, I researched and explained artificial secured debt bonds, default swaps, compiled the exposure of net notional derivatives in the monetary formula, and analyzed the Fed’s new formulas to stabilize the Economy.Array I was interested in the importance of accepting as true in the monetary formula and how the U.S. government handles the concept of accepting as true with. With the advent of the generation of bitcoins and blockchain through a colleague in 2016, I entered the blockchain industry, first with the Digital Chamber of Commerce as Director of Policy Operations and then as political ambassador of ConsenSys. Lately I am the founding CEO and president of a new non-profit organization called the Value Technology Foundation, with the purpose of conducting exclusively educational and charitable activities with respect to virtual assets, blockchain, distributed accounting technologies and other “value” technologies applicable to the public welfare and economic benefits of American citizens. I graduated from Cornell University in Government (BA, 1997) and Kogod Business School (MBA, 2009).