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You would need to be MiTM to exploit that. This "backdoor" will have probably almost no effect, it's interesting that someone made special site just for it..
by lossolo 10y ago
You would need to be MiTM to exploit that. This "backdoor" will have probably almost no effect, it's interesting that someone made special site just for it..
- haakon 10y agoThey haven't made it hard; the phone-home is unauthenticated, so you could just spoof someone's DNS for instance. But even if a third-party exploit were impossible, it's a real problem if one company actually has a kill switch for 70% of Bitcoin's hashing power.