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by disdev 4594 days ago
I'd love to say there's some more nefarious work going on, like governments trying to quash Bitcoin and executing these hacks...

But my guess is it comes down to poor security.
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fembot__ 4594 days ago
I couldn't agree more. I took a cool seminar in college about web security, in which a former senior security specialist for a government agency said that there is no such thing as full security, just varying levels of insecurity. Scary thought...
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BlackDeath3 4594 days ago
>there is no such thing as full security, just varying levels of insecurity

Six in one hand...

But it is good to realize that there really no such thing as perfect security. If it can be accessed, it can be accessed nefariously.

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