Selections from the top news items this week in the world of identity and application security. Tech Thinks It Has a Fix for the Problems It Created: Blockchain From The New York Times: The first blockchain was created in 2009 as a new kind of database for the virtual currency Bitcoin, where all transactions could be stored without any banks or governments involved. Now, countless entrepreneurs, companies and governments are looking to use similar databases — often independent of Bitcoin — to solve some of the most intractable issues facing society, including identity challenges. Digital Identity Is Broken. Here’s a Way to Fix It From the Wall Street Journal: The identity we use to interact with the government, obtain services, and pay for goods is unreliable. In poor parts of the world people simply don’t have trusted identity credentials that allow them to prove who they are, while.