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Title: Requesting thread deletion Post by: TheRealAwesome31312 on October 22, 2017, 03:08:35 PM -
Title: Re: I accuse the admins of having sold Bitcointalk user passwords to "hackers" Post by: Fortify on October 22, 2017, 04:24:28 PM "Don't attribute to malice, that which can be adequately explained by incompetence."
I'm not accusing the bitcointalk staff of incompetence, rather the users of this forum. You'll find that many people will re-use the same password across dozens of different websites and wonder why many of their accounts get hacked at the same time. There are lots of sites out there which are sharing hacked user records from all over the internet and making it easier for people to try them elsewhere. What do you mean "administration like ours"? The staff don't work for you, remember you are a guest here and are free to leave at any time. Title: Re: I accuse the admins of having sold Bitcointalk user passwords to "hackers" Post by: TheRealAwesome31312 on October 22, 2017, 05:15:13 PM -
Title: Re: I accuse the admins of having sold Bitcointalk user passwords to "hackers" Post by: actmyname on October 22, 2017, 06:04:42 PM Well, he should have posted the list and shown all the accounts that were affected, WITH the passwords so we knew not to use those passwords. No. You would purposely expose user information to more people, who could hack into more accounts? That's ridiculous. Hackers wouldn't even have to brute force anything: the passwords would be plaintext.I accidentally changed my password to one I had used before So your fault. This is big shit, most people use the same passwords on other sites. My YoBit got hacked and drained as well. That's the fault of the user, is it not? It's up to you whether you want to have the lack of security of maintaining the same password over multiple platforms. Truly, laziness is the folly of man.Title: Re: I accuse the admins of having sold Bitcointalk user passwords to "hackers" Post by: Fortify on October 22, 2017, 06:41:46 PM Well, he should have posted the list and shown all the accounts that were affected, WITH the passwords so we knew not to use those passwords. I changed my password when I read about the hacks, but then years later, I accidentally changed my password to one I had used before, and one that was sold to the deep web by Theymos. This is big shit, most people use the same passwords on other sites. My YoBit got hacked and drained as well. For somebody who is lecturing Theymos, it seems you don't really understand what has happened here. There is no list of passwords to hand out and it would be a terrible idea to do so even if it was possible. When bitcointalk was hacked they stole encrypted hashes of the passwords, possibly with a seed, so even the hackers would have a hard time finding out the real password. Other websites are probably getting hacked and the passwords are being used to login to accounts here. There is little the staff here can do when accounts are being traded, if you ban the sellers it will simply go underground and this would be more dangerous as it hides the problem. Now, personally I think it is a bad idea allowing email address or username to be used to login. It should just be the username. It is possible that two factor authentication, like text message pincodes, could help - but it might prevent large groups of people from using the site. Title: Re: I accuse the admins of having sold Bitcointalk user passwords to "hackers" Post by: Barcode_ on October 23, 2017, 08:36:13 AM I do not believe that the admin of bitcointalk would do such a thing to earn pennies, this forum have been generating a steady amount of income monthly for the admins. Most of the fault lies with the users that do not know how to protect their own account, it is either they downloaded some malware software into their personal devices or they have been using the same password for all sites.
Title: Re: Requesting thread deletion Post by: TheRealAwesome31312 on November 06, 2017, 11:05:31 PM I am withdrawing and genuinely apologetic for the baseless accusations I have launched against the forum administration
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