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If a payment gateway’s API accidentally exposes a vulnerability that can be exploited without obtaining any credentials illicitly, does the same thing apply? Un
by mypastself 5y ago
If a payment gateway’s API accidentally exposes a vulnerability that can be exploited without obtaining any credentials illicitly, does the same thing apply? Under your proposed definition, the vulnerability is “legal” to execute until it’s patched.
- postalrat 5y agoNo, the same doesn't apply because the payment gateway probably has terms of service and specific laws protecting it. It's protected by those laws. Cryptocurrencies claim to be something else. Something that isn't government by terms of service, laws, etc. How else could you create a worldwide decentralized currency without adopting a rule that code is law.
- exdsq 5y agoPlus how do local laws even have a chance against a global decentralized system - which country gets jurisdiction, etc
- mypastself 5y agoI think we’re actually in agreement here, then: a program deployed on a decentralized network has too many shortcomings to be used in lieu of a legal system, and also, its exploited vulnerabilities can’t be subject to existing laws. My main objection is calling it law: if you’re scammed while purchasing illicit substances on a darknet marketplace, you have no legal recourse, but the marketplace’s rules can’t be called “law”, either.