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you can "fix" this by applying the same practices you do for data input from any untrusted source on your software, don't execute it. The risk with a global, ir
by A_COMPUTER 12y ago
you can "fix" this by applying the same practices you do for data input from any untrusted source on your software, don't execute it. The risk with a global, irrevocable, cumulative append-only database is someone inserting data that will get the possessor of any full bitcoin node into serious trouble just for even having the data. Such as child pornography. Or, I suppose if you're in China, pictures of something like the Tiananman tank guy.
- userbinator 12y agoApparently someone has already inserted child porn (or at least, links to it - I wasn't comfortable with researching further into this...) into the blockchain, along with "illegal primes" and other not-so-legal content. Everyone with full nodes already has this data. It does raise some interesting philosophical questions about the nature of digital data and when legal becomes illegal, since a series of bits can be interpreted in an infinite number of ways.