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user-inactivated  ·  3942 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "this attack vector was outside of penetration testing scope due to being rooted in the Bitcoin protocol itself."

I am almost certain no one has ever said "this attack vector was outside of penetration testing scope due to being rooted in the telnet protocol itself."





user-inactivated  ·  3942 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's actually a lie that the flaw is in the protocol. The vulnerability is in the implementation, and the proper method has been documented, they are just incompetent. Mtgox made the same excuse

NikolaiFyodorov  ·  3942 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Incompetence, or a scam by the SR2 team?

EDIT: Interesting comment at the bottom of that article:

> The author’s mistake is thinking that it is a fellow freedom fighter and not the state that is engaged in the malicious activity.

Only a few years ago I might have dismissed that sort of thinking as conspiracist paranoia. Funny how much my perspective on the world has changed.

kleinbl00  ·  3942 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

- Joseph Heller