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An unidentified 36-year-old man who owns a Bitcoin account has lost more than 100,000 euros ($117,000) worth of Bitcoins while he was logged in on a public wireless network in a restaurant in Vienna, Austria.
The Austrian police, however, claimed that they are still investigating whether the victim's account was already hacked before he opened his account on the unsecured network, CBS reports.
This latest case reflects the growing concern over the security of digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum amidst their growing popularity as a mode of payment.
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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @04:14PM (8 children)
Why couldn't a spammer just programmatically request a new form for each spam comment? How does a "form key" help?
Clearly, tying an IP address to identity is a stupid idea; it is an example of a leaky abstraction. Tor proves this. Hell, NAT proves this.
What's wrong with CAPTCHAs? Why not use HashCash in some way? It was invented to thwart spam!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @04:31PM (1 child)
> What's wrong with CAPTCHAs?
Oh hell no. What's wrong is that, to stay ahead of bots, they are increasingly becoming unsolvable by humans. My success rate with Google's stupid CAPTCHAs is way, way below 50%. Probably worse than a decent bot.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @06:00AM
SoylentNews, you're shit.
I swear, you must all be old graybeards with no longer an iota of value.
Eat a gray, circumcised, American cock.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 26 2017, @05:13PM (5 children)
I am one of those who has ALWAYS had problems with Captcha puzzles. Color blind, half blind to boot, and those damned puzzles beat hell out of me. I've asked the wife to tell me what the text is, many, many times. If the wife isn't around, then I make a guess, two or three times, if I can't get it by then, I close the tab and move on.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @05:34PM (4 children)
Maybe you should have done everyone a kindness and culled yourself voluntarily from the gene pool.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 26 2017, @06:19PM (3 children)
You're funny. One of my three sons has the same genes, affecting his eyes. Cull? You've obviously missed many facts about me, that are available here on Soylent. I served in my country's military. I've paid taxes all of my life, since age 15. I contribute to society. WTF would I cull my genes? Better to cull some far more famous genes. About half of the readers here would agree that Trump should have been culled. The other half would agree that Hillary AND Bill should have been culled, BEFORE Chelsea happened. Then, there are other lowlifes, such as Shkrelli. Tell me - which of those named has actually "contributed" to society? I can make a damned good argument that each and every one of them are parasites.
Maybe you should have been culled?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @06:32PM (1 child)
I never needed you to march around like a buffoon, or pretend to be fighting for my rights.
Besides, you're poorly sighted; I'm guessing you were a paper pusher.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 26 2017, @07:00PM
I spent a couple years pushing paper - that's a fact. I carried an M-14 as well. What else did I do? I did maintenance on a ship. I cooked. I washed dishes. I manned a fire fighting station. On and on it goes - when you're a member of a crew, you do EVERYTHING. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_warfare_insignia#Enlisted_surface_warfare_specialist [wikipedia.org]
March around like a buffoon? You're probably the same AC who believes that the Kurds will eventually be granted indepence, if they just sit back, and be patient. Whether or not you are the same AC, you're equally naive and foolish.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @01:32AM
half [...] agree that Trump should have been culled. The other half would agree that Hillary AND Bill should have been culled
I assure you that the 2 halves have a lot of cross-over in their membership.
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