Earlier quoted context omitted.
such hack.
much coin
so profit
500 Million Dogecoins Mined by Unknown Hacker in Malware Attack
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Re: 500 Million Dogecoins Mined by Unknown Hacker in Malware Attack
#22Any cryptocurrency of value seems to have to fall back to undesirable bureaucratic policies or be devalued by having its own ideology turned back upon itself. The human cycles spent in monitoring and securing value will put a major drag on the ability of the currency to stabilize its value. Stable value gives currency utility. Utility gives a currency adoption. Adoption gives a currency value.
I don't recall where I got this from, just threw it in to my quotes.txt without referencing it:
"If you collect a bunch of people and tell them to abandon all the social norms like honesty, politeness, respect, charity, and reason in favor of a cause – then the most likely result is that when your cause tries to develop some internal structure, it will be overrun by a swarm of people who have abandoned honesty, politeness, respect, charity, and reason."
Re: 500 Million Dogecoins Mined by Unknown Hacker in Malware Attack
#23Any cryptocurrency of value seems to have to fall back to undesirable bureaucratic policies or be devalued by having its own ideology turned back upon itself. The human cycles spent in monitoring and securing value will put a major drag on the ability of the currency to stabilize its value. Stable value gives currency utility. Utility gives a currency adoption. Adoption gives a currency value.
I don't recall where I got this from, just threw it in to my quotes.txt without referencing it: "If you collect a bunch of people and tell them to abandon all the social norms like honesty, politeness, respect, charity, and reason in favor of a cause – then the most likely result is that when your cause tries to develop some internal structure, it will be overrun by a swarm of people who have abandoned honesty, polit…
It is apparently from this article: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/14/living-by-the-sword/ about the feminism movement turning on itself.
Re: 500 Million Dogecoins Mined by Unknown Hacker in Malware Attack
#24Given that the doge community has tended to be relatively "nice" rather than every-man-for-himself-libertarian, is there any chance of organizing a blacklist for these coins or some such?
The "community" cannot blacklist anything, it's the miners. And it is very unlikely that miners with >50% of the network hashrate would agree to this, since most heavy miners don't really belong to the "community" but are just in it to mine enough to be able to sell to cover their hardware and electricity costs.
If merchants and exchanges refused to accept block rewards from miners that don't follow a certain rule set, the miners couldn't sell their block rewards.
It's a complicated game.
Re: 500 Million Dogecoins Mined by Unknown Hacker in Malware Attack
#25500 million dogecoins? That's worth almost 12 grams of lunar regolith, right? That dude must be seriously Jonesin' for some titanium dioxide.
I honestly don't think that the dogecoin community could actually do anything about this without breaking character, other than to suggest sending this guy to the moon... and leaving him there.
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#26Meanwhile, everyone is checking their Synology box for mining software.
What's a good way to do this? I have a Synology NAS at home but it's behind a NAT except for specific ports for security cameras. I'll confess I have no earthly idea how to tell if it's been hax0red.
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#28Meanwhile, everyone is checking their Synology box for mining software.
What's a good way to do this? I have a Synology NAS at home but it's behind a NAT except for specific ports for security cameras. I'll confess I have no earthly idea how to tell if it's been hax0red.
Here's a thread on the Synology forums on how to check if your NAS has been infected and how to remove the malware:
http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=80857&p=3...
Re: 500 Million Dogecoins Mined by Unknown Hacker in Malware Attack
#29500 million dogecoins? That's worth almost 12 grams of lunar regolith, right? That dude must be seriously Jonesin' for some titanium dioxide. I honestly don't think that the dogecoin community could actually do anything about this without breaking character, other than to suggest sending this guy to the moon... and leaving him there.
Nah, I'd rather he not be hanging out on my eventual lunar real estate ;)
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#30Meanwhile, everyone is checking their Synology box for mining software.
In April my university reported several Synology boxes being compromised with "bitcoin" miners. I suspect that was part of this pool.