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Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: emski on November 04, 2014, 11:42:29 am
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I've noticed someone just registered accounts on the blockchain that are very similar to current delegates.
For example:
Nov 4, 2014 10:18:50 AM 30426 delepuppy
Nov 4, 2014 10:17:00 AM 30425 emskibitdelegate
Nov 4, 2014 10:15:30 AM 30424 dacbts500
Nov 4, 2014 10:14:00 AM 30423 daccoolspeed
Nov 4, 2014 10:11:50 AM 30422 btsapp
Nov 4, 2014 10:02:00 AM 30421 dogep2p
Nov 4, 2014 10:01:30 AM 30420 ltcp2p
Nov 4, 2014 10:01:10 AM 30419 dacp2p
If you are going to vote, please double-check the names.
I've shown how robohashes are inefficient for protection (see the first reply).
Until a better system for user protection is implemented (see https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=9109.0 (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=9109.0)) everyone should be extra careful when sending money or voting.
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An example of similar robohash to bytemaster's .
I have another one closer resembling BM's robot (and with lowercase first letter).
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An example of similar robohash to bytemaster's .
I have another one closer resembling BM's robot (and with lowercase first letter).
wow , you scared me :P
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An example of similar robohash to bytemaster's .
I have another one closer resembling BM's robot (and with lowercase first letter).
wow , you scared me :P
The technique I used to get the same robo-hash for the forum account name will likely not work well in the bitsharesX client.
However exploiting similar techniques might produce identical robohashes and visibly similar account names.
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An example of similar robohash to bytemaster's .
I have another one closer resembling BM's robot (and with lowercase first letter).
Can we update the forum rules to prevent people from taking the same name with a slightly different capitalization? This is crazy that someone could impersonate me so easily.
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An example of similar robohash to bytemaster's .
I have another one closer resembling BM's robot (and with lowercase first letter).
Can we update the forum rules to prevent people from taking the same name with a slightly different capitalization? This is crazy that someone could impersonate me so easily.
Capitalisation isnt an issue. I can get visually exact name like yours if using homoglyphs. And still get identical robohash.
There could be implemented a function that calculates visual similarity of 2 strings though.
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An example of similar robohash to bytemaster's .
I have another one closer resembling BM's robot (and with lowercase first letter).
Can we update the forum rules to prevent people from taking the same name with a slightly different capitalization? This is crazy that someone could impersonate me so easily.
If only there were some way to sign messages with some kind of publicly verifiable signature... ;-)
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An example of similar robohash to bytemaster's .
I have another one closer resembling BM's robot (and with lowercase first letter).
Can we update the forum rules to prevent people from taking the same name with a slightly different capitalization? This is crazy that someone could impersonate me so easily.
If only there were some way to sign messages with some kind of publicly verifiable signature... ;-)
You can verify if a message is from me.. but that doesn't mean people will actually check the signature and thus harm can still be done.
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I feel that the community would benefit from more people familiarising themselves this thread. That is to say, bump.
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I remember that there is a guy with ID "dacsunlimited.com", but not related to Dacsunlimted at all. Forum administrators should ban such IDs which are similar to well known IDs.
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I remember that there is a guy with ID "dacsunlimited.com", but not related to Dacsunlimted at all. Forum administrators should ban such IDs which are similar to well known IDs.
The IDs mentioned in the first post are registered on BTSX blockchain and not on the forum.