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It is really getting quite silly at this point. People keep building Bitcoin infrastructure in regular data centres as if that's perfectly sufficient. Check ou
by h2s 14y ago
It is really getting quite silly at this point. People keep building Bitcoin infrastructure in regular data centres as if that's perfectly sufficient.
Check out this article about security at a Visa data centre: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-25/visa-data-center/53774904/1 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-25/visa-data...
It even has a moat!
Here's an article that illustrates the kind of scrutiny faced by banks when it comes to their data protection practices: http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=22595 http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=22595
It's incredibly stringent stuff and banks get fined hard when they fuck it up.
By contrast, one of the recent Bitcoin heists was made possible because the hackers requested a password reset for the exchange's Rackspace account. Seriously.