| DOI: | 10.7249/RR1231
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| 报告号: | RR-1231-OSD
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| 报告题名: | National Security Implications of Virtual Currency: Examining the Potential for Non-state Actor Deployment |
| 作者: | Joshua Baron; Angela O'Mahony; David Manheim; Cynthia Dion-Schwarz
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| 出版者: | RAND Corporation
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| 出版年: | 2015
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| 发表日期: | 2015
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| 总页数: | 96
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| 国家: | 美国
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | Cybercrime
; Banking and Financial Services
; Terrorism Financing
; Information Privacy
; The Internet
; Electronic Commerce
; Information Security
; Students
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| 英文摘要: | This report examines the feasibility for non-state actors, including terrorist and insurgent groups, to increase their political and/or economic power by deploying a virtual currency (VC) for use in regular economic transactions. A VC, such as Bitcoin, is a digital representation of value that can be transferred, stored, or traded electronically and that is neither issued by a central bank or public authority, nor necessarily attached to a fiat currency (dollars, euros, etc.), but is accepted by people as a means of payment. We addressed the following research questions from both the technological and political-economic perspectives: (1) Why would a non-state actor deploy a VC? That is, what political and/or economic utility is there to gain? How might this non-state actor go about such a deployment? What challenges would it have to overcome? (2) How might a government or organization successfully technologically disrupt a VC deployment by a non-state actor, and what degree of cyber sophistication would be required? (3) What additional capabilities become possible when the technologies underlying the development and implementation of VCs are used for purposes broader than currency? This report should be of interest to policymakers interested in technology, counterterrorism, and intelligence and law enforcement issues, as well as for VC and cybersecurity researchers. |
| URL: | http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1200/RR1231/RAND_RR1231.pdf
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| 资源类型: | 研究报告
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/27731
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
科学计划与规划
气候减缓与适应
气候变化事实与影响
气候变化与战略
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Joshua Baron,Angela O'Mahony,David Manheim,et al. National Security Implications of Virtual Currency: Examining the Potential for Non-state Actor Deployment. 2015-01-01.
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