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bug on Internet unleashes 175mm peoples private info including SSN: Lol internet! Ethereum bug loses 500k eth: Shut it the fuck down it will never work. Peop
by DiNovi 9y ago
bug on Internet unleashes 175mm peoples private info including SSN: Lol internet!
Ethereum bug loses 500k eth: Shut it the fuck down it will never work.
People... get used to stuff.
- Jtsummers 9y agoApples and oranges. Bug in a specific DB or HTTP server implementation exposes confidential data: Patch it or shut it down. Bug in a specific service: Patch it or shut it down. Ethereum is equivalent to those things. It is not equivalent to the Internet, that would be "blockchain technology" (quotes because it's such an ambiguous and ill-defined space right now). Ethereum is buggy. Plain and simple. It is ill-designed, ill-scoped, and ill-managed (there never should have been a hard fork for the DAO fuckup).
- Bromskloss 9y agoIs this a bug in Ethereum? I thought it was a bug in a piece of wallet software.
- Jtsummers 9y agoI’d say it’s a bug in ethereum. A Contract has dependencies. Those dependencies can be shut down before the contract. The contract is now stuck, unable to be processed. This is very much like the leftpad issue with node and npm. It’s a flaw in the design of the system that permits this behavior. The contract (wallet software) is also clearly buggy. But the bug is a consequence of the ill-designed foundations.
- trowawee 9y agoActually, a lot of people have called for Equifax to be shut down as well. It's just a lot harder to kill a company, even ones that have engaged in wildly irresponsible or illegal activity, than it ought to be.