> I did not make billions.
I only have access to the trade volume of coinhive's wallet addresses that were publicly known at the time and what the blockchain provides as information about that. How much money RF or SK or MM made compared to you is debatable. But as you were a shareholder of the company/companies behind it, it's reasonable to assume you've got at least a fair share of their revenue.
If you want me to pull out a copy of the financial statements, I can do so. But it's against HN's guidelines so I'm asking for your permission first to disprove your statement.
> Nothing I did was illegal (...) Coinhive was not ransomware
At the time, it went quickly into being the 6th most common miner on the planet, and primarily (> 99% of the transaction volume) being used in malware.
It was well known before you created coinhive, and it was known during and after. Malpedia entries should get you started [1] [2] but I've added lots of news sources, including German media from that time frame, just for the sake of argument [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
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I've posted troyhunt's analysis because it demonstrates how easily this could've been prevented. A simple correlation between Referer/Domain headers or URLs and the tokens would've been enough to figure out that a threat actor from China that distributes malware very likely does not own an .edu or .gov website in the US, and neither SCADA systems.
As there was a financial benefit on your side and no damage payments to any of the affected parties, and none revoked transactions from malicious actors, I'd be right to assume the unethical motivation behind it.
> I did not organize a doxing campaign. There was no doxing of Brian Krebs.
As I know that you're still an admin on pr0gramm as the cha0s user, that's pretty much a useless archive link.
Nevertheless I don't think that you can say "There was no doxing of Brian Krebs" when you can search for "brian krebs hurensohn" on pr0gramm, still, today, with posts that have not been deleted, and still have his face with a big fat "Hurensohn" stamp on it. [9]
As I wrote in another comment, I also said that there are also nice admins on the imageboard like Gamb, and that they successfully turned around that doxxing attempt into something meaningful.
> I don't know what your personal agenda is, but there's so much misinformation and hyperbole in your comment that I have to assume that this is personal for some reason!?
This is not personal for me, at all. But I've observed what was going on and I could not be silent about the unethical things that you built in the past.
To me, doing that lost all trust and good faith in you. The damage that you caused on a global scale with your product coinhive far exceeds whatever one person's lifetime can make up for. And I think that people should know about that before they execute your code and are going to be a victim to a fraudulent coin mining scheme.
Calling this hyperbole and misinformation is kind of ridiculous, given that antivirus signatures and everything are easily discoverable with the term "coinhive". It's not like it's a secret or made up or something.
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[1] https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.coinmin...
[2] https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.monero_...
[3] https://cyberexperts.com/what-is-coinhive-malware/
[4] https://censys.com/de/hunting-for-threats-coinhive-cryptocur...
[5] https://www.pcrisk.de/ratgeber-zum-entfernen/8716-coinhive-v...
[6] https://www.golem.de/news/kryptomining-coinhive-skripte-warn...
[7] https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/detections/coinhive-com
[8] https://www.coindesk.com/tag/coinhive/
[9] https://pr0gramm.com/top/brian%20krebs%20hurensohn
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