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This is unfair to banish a company for not having enough "security experience". It could happen to anyone (i mean making such a design mistake), plus they afaik
by homakov 10y ago
This is unfair to banish a company for not having enough "security experience". It could happen to anyone (i mean making such a design mistake), plus they afaik had some external audits.
"Aha, no security background!" is wrong.
- mjfl 10y agoIt is absolutely fair to banish a company for security credentials if it's dangling $150 million out in the open air.
- heliumcraft 10y agoThe Ethereum Foundation had nothing to do with the creation of the DAO.
- burkaman 10y agoThat's like saying The Pirate Bay has nothing to do with piracy.
- heliumcraft 10y agoIt's like saying the WEB and HTTP protocol have nothing do with a SQL injection on some website.
- dang 10y ago> What are you talking about? Please don't be uncivil. It's damaging to collegial conversation, and it's against the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Please edit such stuff out of your comments here.
- drcode 10y ago> if it's dangling $150 million out in the open air. The ethereum foundation didn't do this, the slock.it team is a separate group responsible for this bug.
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- afrenchcoder 10y agoHow is it unfair ? We're speaking about crypto-currency here. "crypto" is so damn hard than even experts make mistakes indesign or implementation, and very often in both. And when they don't, it still doesn't mean it's secure... And now it's ok to have no expert and to use the result to manage _currency_ ?!? It might sound weird, but yeah, I'd like to have knowledgeable people to deal with my money
- qbrass 10y agoPeople complained about the same criticism of MtGox back in the day.
- IncRnd 10y agoActually, "Aha, no security background!" is the exact right attitude to have.