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Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident
- chrisandchris 2y agoI'm mostly surprised by the number of subscribers > The threat actor exported the blog mailing list email addresses, which was a total of 3759 email addresses. 3700 addresses doesn't seem like that much at all.
- _carbyau_ 2y agoFor the type of attack deployed it was a target rich list though!
- throwaway211 2y agoEthereum might be a load of gas. NFTs are after all just a few hundred NFT influencers reinventing themselves and their pseudonyms for their audience of wannabes.
- yieldcrv 2y agoSeveral things at play here: A) no crypto enthusiast or speculator needs to be subscribed to the ethereum foundation’s blog since 2014, which was 10 years ago for reference. But even then forums and twitter worked well enough for resyndicating news. B) Its more likely they pruned the mailing list multiple times after every bull cycle, asking people if they still wanted to be subscribed to reduce complaints and bounce rates. Crypto bear markets are deep doldrums.
- PretzelPirate 2y agoI've been an Ethereum user since it first launched and I've never been on the mailing list. I suspect that's the case for most of the community. I've never felt like I've missed out on information from not being on it.
- yieldcrv 2y agoI tried to write the same thing but apparently its controversial My best guess is that people need to feel validated that crypto is smaller than its airtime, and that they didn't waste the last decade of their life in an echo chamber of things that went wrong in the space at the exclusion of the things working fine
- ChilledTonic 2y agoOff the cuff thought, but I wonder if the early days of modern banking were marred with such blatant fraud and deceit. I think of stage coach robberies of US bonds, and the various bank “rug-pulls” (to use crypto fraud nomenclature) that occurred before the Coinage act of 1857 - but it’s such distant history it’s hard to find how people felt about it at the time. What I’m getting at is this - is crypto fraud innate to it’s very essence, or did all “advancements” in banking technology have the same problem before everyone settled in and “got used” to attempts at fraud.
- throwaway211 2y agoYes. Banks, especially trust, transaction banking, bills, discounting, came about in no small part as fraud avoidance.
- yieldcrv 2y agoThe rug pulls continued well into and past the 1930s, when bankers thought it would be funny to make an insurance pool out of tax payer money, thereby increasing deposits and business. It worked. Nothing fundamentally prevents it from happening again, state sponsored deposit insurance has expanded to more asset classes and deposit types several times. Deposit insurance is just a confidence game.
- shrubble 2y agoEven in ancient Sumeria where they used sealed clay jars (an early form of baking if you think about it), they have found examples where the stated contents on the writing outside and what was found inside were not the same....
- Simon_ORourke 2y agoWhat I take from reading this, is that only 35k folks are interested in Ethereum.
- can16358p 2y agoOr, many tech-savvy folks are living beyond email-era: as someone enthusiast about Ethereum and technology in general I never use emails or subscriptions and get my news simply by other means.
- throw156754228 2y ago>Our internal security team immediately launched an investigation to help determine what the aim of the attack was, To steal people's crypto?
- nubinetwork 2y agoCould be worse, I just got an email saying I'm eligible for $100 worth of some ethereum altcoin because I'm a Github user. Only problem is that I have to install some app and let them hijack my Github account if I want them... of course I'm not going to be entertaining that scam.
- noch 2y ago[flagged]
- nubinetwork 2y ago> Unfortunately, many contributors are leaving thousands of dollars unclaimed because they think they are being scammed. > Starkware airdrop I didn't want to name names, but if they wanted to give me money, their email shouldn't have set off Gmail's spam filter... they could have also converted their scamcoin themsevles and donated to my patreon. /shrug
- Joker_vD 2y agoBut that'd require them to part with their money as opposed to making you to look for some another early adopter to sell those cryptocoins to.
- noch 2y ago> their money as opposed to making you to look for some another early adopter to sell those cryptocoins to. It is true that distributing one's own token is in the effort of bootstrapping their network. But people tend not to value what they receive for free and don't care about, which is why many in crypto are against airdrops as a form of token distribution. Nonetheless, the ambition is to distribute ownership of the network and thus incentivize users as well as decentralize ownership so that the token may become a commodity and the network more robust and valuable. Time will tell if such experiments will succeed. Certainly, the SEC is watching. As for "their money", if you look at the balance sheets of U.S. regulated exchanges and U.S. regulated crypto companies, you will note that these crypto tokens are listed and marked to a certain value and that this accounting is recognized legally in the U.S. These tokens are in fact valuable assets even if their moneyness is debatable.
- acjohnson55 2y agoIt doesn't seem to say how the mailing list was hacked and why we shouldn't be concerned about their overall security practices.
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- titanlon 2y ago[flagged]