David Kalat
November 05, 2019 | Legaltech News
Nervous System: Passwords Became More Secure By Adding a Pinch of SaltForty years ago this month, Robert Morris and Ken Thompson published an article in Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery and created something that computer users still benefit from almost every day.
By David Kalat, BRG
6 minute read
October 07, 2019 | Legaltech News
Nervous System: How Legal Tech Helped Catch the BTK KillerIn this month's look at the history of cybersecurity, David Kalat examines how forensic analysis was used to catch one of America's most notorious serial killers after three decades.
By David Kalat, BRG
6 minute read
September 03, 2019 | Legaltech News
Nervous System: Clipping the Wings of the Clipper ChipIn this month's look at the history of cybersecurity, David Kalat examines the government's efforts to come to a consensus with government access to encrypted technologies, only for outside forces to get in the way.
By David Kalat, BRG
6 minute read
August 05, 2019 | Legaltech News
Nervous System: The First Modern Presidential CampaignIn this month's look at the history of cybersecurity, David Kalat examines the first presidential campaign to use information technology to its advantage: William McKinley in 1896.
By David Kalat, BRG
6 minute read
July 02, 2019 | Legaltech News
Nervous System: The Day the NSA Took Down the MilitaryIn this month's look at the history of cybersecurity, David Kalat looks back at the '90s, when the NSA reminded the U.S. government just how vulnerable to intrusion its systems could be.
By David Kalat, BRG
7 minute read
June 04, 2019 | Legaltech News
Nervous System: The Great Fixer of Information Coding ErrorsIn this month's look at the history of cybersecurity, David Kalat looks back at how one man's frustration at losing time led to one of the great breakthroughs in information theory.
By David Kalat, BRG
6 minute read
May 08, 2019 | The Recorder
Nervous System: Think Cryptocurrency is New? You've Forgotten the '80sA major technological barrier to developing viable digital currency is the 'double-spend' problem. eCash's answer far outdates bitcoin.
By David Kalat, BRG
6 minute read
May 07, 2019 | Legaltech News
Nervous System: Think Cryptocurrency is New? You've Forgotten the '80sA major technological barrier to developing viable digital currency is the 'double-spend' problem. In this month's look at the history of cybersecurity, David Kalat examines eCash's answer that far outdates bitcoin.
By David Kalat, BRG
6 minute read
April 01, 2019 | Legaltech News
Nervous System: The First Social NetworkYears before Zuckerberg and Facebook, there was Community Memory. In this month's look at the history of cybersecurity, David Kalat looks back at a computerized social network that never actually connected to the internet.
By David Kalat, BRG
6 minute read
March 05, 2019 | Legaltech News
Nervous System: Big Brother, the Ghost in LBJ's ComputerThis isn't the first time the debate over technological advancements versus fundamental privacy rights has reached Congress. In this month's look at the history of cybersecurity, David Kalat looks back to the National Data Bank of the 1960's.
By David Kalat, BRG
7 minute read
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