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Re: Deep Web Trading Site Silk Road 2 Hacked

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True Satan <true_satan@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> "http://www.deepdotweb.com/2014/02/13/silk-road-2-hacked-bitcoins-stolen-
> unknown-amount/"
> 
> Either the admins and staff of the site were incredibly stupid (you 
> don't leave all the doors and windows open at your version of Fort Knox) 
> or are behind the theft of an as yet undetermined quantity of Bitcoin. 
> The failure bears uncanny similarity to the Mt.Gox fiasco in that they 
> lay the blame on the Bitcoin protocol yet said protocol has had the flaw 
> they are highlighting from its inception and it is both very well known 
> and warned about by Bitcoin developers. Use of official Bitcoin clients 
> fully mitigates the flaw...it would seem that like Mt.Gox they crafted 
> their own system and the known flaw was not mitigated within it.

First Post! :-P

Either one is really entirely plausible.  Blindspots exist for everyone,
and even when you have the luxury of having a big team working on security
for a server, things can and often do get missed.  Scale that down to a 
one or two man operation with extremely little trust going out from there,
and you have a recipe for a vulnerable server.  But naturally, they also
are running a criminal underground site whose name they got by 
opportunistically jumping on the name and style of a popular site that
had just been popped.  Neither option would really surprise me here;
it may be interesting to see how this affects things for them.

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Deep Web Trading Site Silk Road 2 Hacked True Satan <true_satan@fastmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-13 20:54 +0000
  Re: Deep Web Trading Site Silk Road 2 Hacked cykros@devio.us - 2014-02-13 21:10 +0000
    Re: Deep Web Trading Site Silk Road 2 Hacked RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-14 11:04 +0000
    Re: Deep Web Trading Site Silk Road 2 Hacked True Satan <true_satan@fastmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-14 12:23 +0000

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