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Once you need a custom client that's programmed to stitch together arbitrary bytes stored across N transactions to reproduce a bad image, it doesn't seem to be
by hombre_fatal 6y ago
Once you need a custom client that's programmed to stitch together arbitrary bytes stored across N transactions to reproduce a bad image, it doesn't seem to be much different or any less savory than writing one that can find the same bytes from specific offsets across N articles on nytimes.com or one that plucks them out of a stream from /dev/random.
The inaccessibility of viewing this data seems to make the world of difference versus, say, looking at the images that appear in your web browser when you go to badsite.com.
- kjrose 6y agowell, and you'd need to know all the places they put them.
- nefitty 6y agoWhat about some sort of index placed at different intervals for easier discoverability
- kart23 6y agoEh, some explorers do show op_return data in ASCII, so you could definitely see messages in a browser without too much work or a 'custom client'. From an example thats in the article, click on details and look at OP_RETURN: https://mempool.space/tx/0540b5dda23ee870330c6b1e18a88c592cf8d847c47f1dc1d5328f46115b12b3 https://mempool.space/tx/0540b5dda23ee870330c6b1e18a88c592cf...
- hombre_fatal 6y agoYes, but that's just ASCII. What is your idea of a 80 byte globally illegal ASCII message that isn't just a URL elsewhere?
- tick_tock_tick 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
- sneak 6y agoX5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* I haven't scanned the blockchain lately but I'd be surprised if this isn't in there already.
- spinny 6y agoit is, just like many other sig that will trip the AV and delete the blockchain. if running on windows it's a good idea to add the btc data dir to the av exclusion list
- eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y agoNot necessary, Bitcoin Core obfuscates the data on disk for the very same reason which we're discussing here :)
- sneak 6y agoIndeed. Schneier even made this bogus "illegal data in the blockchain" style claim recently.
- twox2 6y agoI think the difference is that the bitcoin blockchain might outlive a certain article being accessible on nytimes. The nytiems article can be edited, blockchain data not as much.