This is an awesome idea, and we want to help support it.
To that end: how do we disclose a security vulnerability? Is there a PGP key posted, or some other system for us to do that?
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Re: Stellar
#362The password recovery scheme is so poorly designed, that's borderline scary: You can't use the recovery code sent by email after registration without validating your email first (but since you have the code, your email is obviously valid)... which requires you to login (but if you don't have your password, well, you can't log in)... Great!... one lost account for me.
Re: Stellar
#363Pretty strange how Stellar is paying people to sign up with Facebook. Facebook is very centralized. These modern currencies are very decentralized. I don't mind myself, but it seems like paying someone to sign up with the enemy...
I bailed at the first page after the registration screen when I couldn't get any further due to the facebook requirement. I don't have a facebook account, who in tech has a facebook account these days? I just find it strange that a supposedly forward-thinking new platform would require technology most people I know abandoned last decade. You don't appeal to early-adopters by requiring they use dead-tech.
"who in tech has a facebook account these days?"
erm, lol ?
Re: Stellar
#364This kind of looks like a re-branding of Ripple. Ripple had a lot of image issues after one of the founders quit accusing the company of unethical behavior. Kind of unfortunate that Stripe would through their weight behind Ripple in any way.
The founder that quit is the one who founded Stellar.
He is also the one who dumped 9 billion XRP after that argument.
Re: Stellar
#365Looks like the emails coming from stellar are delivered from an SMTP origin "mailgun.info" which uses an invalid client certificate; I'm getting errors:
SSL_accept error from mail-182-5.mailgun.info[23.253.182.5]: 0 warning: TLS library problem: XXX:error:XXX:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate:s3_pkt.c:1258:SSL alert number 42:
At least they retry without SSL aftwards, and manage to deliver the emails.
Re: Stellar
#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hear you. It's a temporary measure: https://www.stellar.org/faq/#_Why_do_I_need_to_authenticate_... . Basically, it was an easy (but imperfect) way to start. We'd certainly love suggestions for other channels to distribute stellars.
The signup with FB to get 5000 stellars pushed me off. Why should I give a totally new non-profit organisation access to my FB profile? I guess most of the devs here know, what that mean in terms of privacy.
Same here .. why does a currency exchange need access to my FB friends and photos? For all I know the whole thing has been set up as a ruse to show that idiot tech-heads will give away their ID and family photos for "magic beans" in the form of potentially worthless private currency.
Of course I'm happy to beg for "money" .. so you're still reading gdb, please give me some stellar (username: pbhj). Thanks!
Re: Stellar
#367So if I'm understanding correctly, we're meant to trust a network governed by the CEO of Stripe, the VC funding Stripe, and a guy whom Stripe has given 2 Million dollars to?
Looks like this is yet another classic developer bait-and-switch. Make things look all independent and open at the start, have a different website, and make a half-declaration about your interests so nobody can accuse you of not being transparent... But keep the keys to the kingdom in your pocket so you can control it and profit once it becomes valuable.
Count me out.
Re: Stellar
#368Feel free to send me 1000 stellar in step 4 of the signup process. Username: corey . Had to be the first to ask :) Thanks in advance!
Please send me free money too. 'zoidberg' ^W^W 'pbhj'
Re: Stellar
#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same way as everyone else — OAuth'd with Facebook :).
Would appreciate some also. The connect with Facebook button on the Stellar dashboard isn't working. Username is keanemachine ;)
ME too I have same problem with the facebook button. Same username as this one i.e. noso.