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akennberg on April 15, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

Love the whole side discussion about bitcoin from the supposed attacker:

06:07 < ryannn> They say there's no 'central weak point'

06:07 < ryannn> Yeah there is, there's the developers

06:08 < ryannn> There's been bugs in the client that have allowed the blockchain to split previously

06:08 < ryannn> One could just backdoor the bitcoin client binaries, not the source.

06:08 < ryannn> Nobody would figure it out until it's too late

http://turtle.dereferenced.org/~nenolod/linode/linode-abridg...

drivebyacct2 on April 16, 2013 [–]

I'm curious how he's going to backdoor the binaries running on my computer built by the launchpad servers without anyone noticing. Granted, I'm not checking the commit logs every time apt gives me a new version, but all the same.

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