Author Topic: [FYI] Gentleman hacker returns stolen Bitcoins to blockchain.info  (Read 1682 times)

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Sensationalist nonsense. He never stole them, he detected the issue and swept them before any bad actors could so.
would have done the same ... although I would have negotiated a 5-10% "protection fee" :) (not necessarily with the owners but blockchain.info)

He got rewarded by blockchain.info. Apparently got a good gig too.

Good to hear ... That's how one can motivate white - and gray-hats :)
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Sensationalist nonsense. He never stole them, he detected the issue and swept them before any bad actors could so.
would have done the same ... although I would have negotiated a 5-10% "protection fee" :) (not necessarily with the owners but blockchain.info)

He got rewarded by blockchain.info. Apparently got a good gig too.

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Sensationalist nonsense. He never stole them, he detected the issue and swept them before any bad actors could so.
would have done the same ... although I would have negotiated a 5-10% "protection fee" :) (not necessarily with the owners but blockchain.info)

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Definitely brings back the old idea of having a mouse move entropy collector (like krypto kit) on your web page to go along with the browsers secure random number.   A hacker would have to guess both numbers.

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Sensationalist nonsense. He never stole them, he detected the issue and swept them before any bad actors could so.

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