Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident
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Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident
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Re: Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident
#2I'm mostly surprised by the number of subscribers
> The threat actor exported the blog mailing list email addresses, which was a total of 3759 email addresses.
3700 addresses doesn't seem like that much at all.
Re: Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident
#3I'm mostly surprised by the number of subscribers > The threat actor exported the blog mailing list email addresses, which was a total of 3759 email addresses. 3700 addresses doesn't seem like that much at all.
For the type of attack deployed it was a target rich list though!
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#4Off the cuff thought, but I wonder if the early days of modern banking were marred with such blatant fraud and deceit.
I think of stage coach robberies of US bonds, and the various bank “rug-pulls” (to use crypto fraud nomenclature) that occurred before the Coinage act of 1857 - but it’s such distant history it’s hard to find how people felt about it at the time.
What I’m getting at is this - is crypto fraud innate to it’s very essence, or did all “advancements” in banking technology have the same problem before everyone settled in and “got used” to attempts at fraud.
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#5Off the cuff thought, but I wonder if the early days of modern banking were marred with such blatant fraud and deceit. I think of stage coach robberies of US bonds, and the various bank “rug-pulls” (to use crypto fraud nomenclature) that occurred before the Coinage act of 1857 - but it’s such distant history it’s hard to find how people felt about it at the time. What I’m getting at is this - is crypto fraud innate t…
Yes. Banks, especially trust, transaction banking, bills, discounting, came about in no small part as fraud avoidance.
Re: Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident
#6I'm mostly surprised by the number of subscribers > The threat actor exported the blog mailing list email addresses, which was a total of 3759 email addresses. 3700 addresses doesn't seem like that much at all.
Ethereum might be a load of gas. NFTs are after all just a few hundred NFT influencers reinventing themselves and their pseudonyms for their audience of wannabes.
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#7I'm mostly surprised by the number of subscribers > The threat actor exported the blog mailing list email addresses, which was a total of 3759 email addresses. 3700 addresses doesn't seem like that much at all.
Several things at play here:
A) no crypto enthusiast or speculator needs to be subscribed to the ethereum foundation’s blog since 2014, which was 10 years ago for reference. But even then forums and twitter worked well enough for resyndicating news.
B) Its more likely they pruned the mailing list multiple times after every bull cycle, asking people if they still wanted to be subscribed to reduce complaints and bounce rates. Crypto bear markets are deep doldrums.
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#8Off the cuff thought, but I wonder if the early days of modern banking were marred with such blatant fraud and deceit. I think of stage coach robberies of US bonds, and the various bank “rug-pulls” (to use crypto fraud nomenclature) that occurred before the Coinage act of 1857 - but it’s such distant history it’s hard to find how people felt about it at the time. What I’m getting at is this - is crypto fraud innate t…
The rug pulls continued well into and past the 1930s, when bankers thought it would be funny to make an insurance pool out of tax payer money, thereby increasing deposits and business. It worked. Nothing fundamentally prevents it from happening again, state sponsored deposit insurance has expanded to more asset classes and deposit types several times. Deposit insurance is just a confidence game.
Re: Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident
#9Off the cuff thought, but I wonder if the early days of modern banking were marred with such blatant fraud and deceit. I think of stage coach robberies of US bonds, and the various bank “rug-pulls” (to use crypto fraud nomenclature) that occurred before the Coinage act of 1857 - but it’s such distant history it’s hard to find how people felt about it at the time. What I’m getting at is this - is crypto fraud innate t…
Even in ancient Sumeria where they used sealed clay jars (an early form of baking if you think about it), they have found examples where the stated contents on the writing outside and what was found inside were not the same....
Re: Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident
#10What I take from reading this, is that only 35k folks are interested in Ethereum.