Christopher Rucinski is a managing director at Aon, specializing in computer science and intellectual property litigation, including patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark cases. He has served as an expert witness in federal court (both deposition and trial ...
If you have ever acquired a vintage baseball card, you might have experienced the feeling brought on by exclusive ownership of something rare. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, combine limited supply with ownership verification features to evoke this feeling.
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Read MoreWe’ve spent the last two posts describing the most basic levels of system software. Most recently, we considered how a series of boot loaders create and enforce a chain of trust. Consumer devices didn’t include this feature in ...
Read MoreIn our previous post, we described how the early moments of smartphone power-on involve a set of boot loaders sequentially handing off control after making incremental progress. These increasingly complex programs essentially run a relay race to bring ...
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