Security

The Misconception of Decentralized App Promises

The End of Graphite Sheets

Spreadsheets are complex. This is why most people in the world use Microsoft Excel. Microsoft has, quite literally, been perfecting spreadsheets for 30+ years. There are alternatives — Google Sheets, for example — but the alternatives, no matter how much investment in time and…

Owning Your Encryption Keys

The first step to data ownership is encryption. But that’s only a half-step, really. Lots of systems offer…

Data Privacy and Security Are Tools, Not Prisons

I keep my money in a bank. Some of it, at least. Some of it is kept in digital wallets and is in the form of digital currency. Those funds, whether fiat or crypto, are private (for the most part) and secure. But when I go out to dinner with my…

The Venn Diagram of Decentralization

Ask five people for the definition of decentralization, and it’s very possible you get five different answers. People come to a concept with their own biases (myself and Graphite, as a whole, included). So, it makes sense that there is such a range of definitions…