DO NOT USE UPnP!!!!!!
in some routers, they can be completely reconfigured by sending only 1 packet. this can be solved by simply turning off UPnP. id also advise turning off all other remote and automatic configuration systems, they are only security holes.
In my systems I configure ports manually, and no UPnP. For most users who are clueless about networking, the router with UPnP is still more secure than going directly to internet. It's like going naked on street when gay pride is marching nearby. If you have malicous software on the inside of your firewall/router then you have larger problems then UPnP. Yes, the golden rule. It's either completely clean and safe, or you are owned. And Yes, most routers allow changing UPnP rules only from LAN side. Still there are routers with badly written firmware or running on default passwords and with WAN management acess enabled. |
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(yes, my internet connection is fine, and I have 8 connections).
No, Your connection is not fine. Open the necessary ports in router or enable UPnP. You will most likely get more speed. Also the power of computer and random acess times of harddrive is also important. I taken hour and a half to download blockchain on Core2Duo running on WD Raptor, but the same blocks taked whole day to download on aging Pentium4 running with old Maxtor drive. In future there might be good idea to release the Bitcoin software with two installers - the standart and the Mega installer, that installs the blockchain files in Bitcoin directory. |
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It's OK, I already found more interesting pastime than trying to figure out who is campaining against pools. The raw network dump, even few MB would be the best to help determine what bnet software is causing that, if you don't mind some accidential password in plaintext getting into my hands. the LOIC, Zeus, DK, they all have some characteristics that set them apart. Some more capable of them are limited to few persons controlling them.
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i've told this story before but i have a friend who's a DEA agent here locally who goes out on busts and works in the surveillance division where you'd think they'd know alot about Bitcoin, Tor, and PGP encryption. Nope. no clue. he's says the difficult stuff gets sent back to Washington.
OMFG such a fail! There are some really computer savvy people who decided to become rat and work in law enforcement and other 3 letter agencies, but majority of cops are dumb in computers just as general public. The nerds and hackers will win in long-term. I'm positive about it! |
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Speaking of scamcoins or namecoins, the Polmine also started to mine namecoins without user approval. One nice day my workers were switched from pure Bitcoin to Bitcoin+Scamcoin.
And yeah, the DDoS! I contacted Slush to figure out more about the ddos, but the conversation was short. I was interested in type of DDoS to sort out who and more important why is ddosing the pools. I was told that the attack is syn flood and after that I got no reply.
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Bloating the blockchain for profit of 2% of all transactions. And keeping log files for 1 week, yeah. You should be safe if using Tor to acess the site, but the site sill will have both of your adresses, from what the site recieves to what adress the site sends. Not talking about honeypot, seems more like greed to me, but who knows. Just don't associate your adress with your real life identity.
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As long as there is no obvious corellation between adress transfering unusal amoun of coins and your real life identiy, you are safe. Speaking of Silk Road, most dangerous is cops busting some seller and using his SR seller account to gather information about buyers.
Use different recieving adress each time you recieve coins. Additionally you might want to run it trough Tor network. Bitcoin is meant for anonimity. And Internet is for porn and Tor hidden services is for drugs and CP.
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As far as keepeing wallet.dat on TrueCrypt encrypted volumes goes, it helps only against thug who might steal your computer. For Bitcoin to operate you need wallet.dat to be acessible, so the truecrypt volume must be mounted. And when mounted, truecrypt volume is acessible to any software, including malware. Even more, malware can capture your truecrypt password and steal the truecrypt container to be mounted later.
And no source available = security trough obscurity = no real security at all. Don't waste your time, there are enough false security software out there, such as Kaspersky, Norton and NOD32, better learn more about real life security.
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If you see this cop again, please tell him that last portion of ganja I purchased in Silk Road was the best and strongest I ever had. It made me into clueless zombie.
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If the computer is compromised, the malware can do anything, and this means anything! If it is specifically targeting one software (your Bitcoin "protection"), it will circumvent it and it's done!
Backing up file to network? Sounds bad idea. Even if the wallet is encrypted, the encryption keys should remain known only to owner of wallet.dat So the keys should be backed up by owner, prefereably on removalbe medium. So why not back up the whole wallet.dat on encrypted flash drive instead, and keep your system always clean and secure? With secure system the wallet can be in plaintext.
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The Bitcoin idea is again brilliant. The greed for tx fees are more atractive than possibility of lulz when the blockchain is injected with 500kb of garbage after long time of mining with modified no-fees miner.
And yes, the vote of majority. As long as majority runs non-malicious bitcoin clients, they are free to reject the invalid or malformed transactions or blocks above preset limit.
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I'm considered bad guy and I don't deserve the free bitcoin. Just look on my postings and signature!
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DO NOT USE BITCOIN TO BUY LARGE QUANTITIES OF CRUDE OIL. Use Bitcoins to buy crude nuclear bomb and blast the USA and his western minions to pieces! |
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I thought of getting a BD but
a) it tends to suck for most applications
b) there is a very good chance cpu-based chains go nowhere.
If BD had better general performance I would buy one but currently it seems like a dud unless AMD significantly cuts the price.
I expected to build new computer based on bulldozer CPU, but the Bulldozer sometimes is inferior to Phenom II x6. And the CPU-Based mining will be destroyed by ASIC chips just like GPU mining made CPU mining almost useless. |
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The Bulldozer is a failure!  |
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Err not exactly meant as a compliment.
I get that DDoS is like 'protesting' on the internet, however I generally classify people that offer such services as shady, regardless of their intentions.
And no matter how I re-read your second statement, it sounds like a crude joke about a double spend attack.
What exactly does it mean? Has your DDoS services ever been used for what we would both consider immoral intent (e.g Bot-net taking down competitions website, compared to protesting taking down a child porn site)? You can clasify me as you see fit, I don't care. The second line is not crude joke about double spend, it's crude joke about getting your wallet.dat  It means what it means. I don't consider taking competitors website offline for some time immoral. The competition in capitalism is fierce, and if someone from corporation one says that corporation two products are inferior and theyr boss have small penis, there comes the immoral services. On other side I don't consider taking down child porn website a heroic thing. There is few if any CP websites in plain internet, and if the small minority of pedos can jerk to pictures and don't harm the little girl or boy next door, let they get there stuff and release the pressure. Generally I offer to bring out the treasures from closed and private parts on hacking forums to people who can pay me. I deleted a wallet with 100 coins in 2009 because I realized it was pointless/worthless since the coins couldn't sold even for a penny. At the time this really just seemed like a professor's side project that was going to go nowhere. Would'nt it feel better now if of You saved the file somewhere for later time or just simply sent them to me? Well, at the time with the difficulty only moving from 55k to 76k(march 9th 2011) This is about the area he peaked once at about 200GH then maxed out to just over ~495GH before just going *POOF* Just wanted to provide some more accurate info to help in the speculation. Classic botnets with CPU mining will not tolerate CPU mining for long, peoplw will start noticing the 100% load because it will for them make the workstations useless as shit. 1 week of CPU mining before noticable reduction in numbers is my estaminate. Probably the coins was inexpensive back then and the operator used the botnet for other more profitable or more fun purposes. |
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DDoS, packers/crypters, proxy servers and other stuff for bitcoins. PM me!
Send some of your bitcoins to me now before I do it myself! 1Aiq9FYv12GQjM9LeBHoNq9c3FfFaA4GTA
Nice Signature. Thanks! Don't know why there was no single user on this forum interested in this stuff. Maybe some think it's scam or trap. I don't care. To build the kind of server farm required to generate that many hashes in a week would be something like 100M in hardware. So yeah to buy $100M in hardware, assemble it, mine for week, tear it down, sell the equipment so that hopefully somepoint in the future you could make $10M is very LMAO worthy. The Mystery Miner was probably before I got seriously atracted to bitcoins, I heard about him only after I registered my nickname. Unlikely that someone built the server farm for Bitcoin. Most likely the farm existed before, only he experimented and run the software for short time and probably the week after that discarded the coins as unnecesary. I know people who lost the wallets with 50+ coins mined to OS reinstallation, because they thinked the Bitcoin is worthless. |
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Sorry folks, I'm infrequent guest here, so when reading the topic title I suspected this is about me. Did someone accepted my challenge in my past postings and hacked my Windows-based computer and stole my coins or I managed to keep them secure in my wallet? All my coins are safe and intact. You don't even know how much I have until You get them... |
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The GUI have not changed much and this is good! If it works then don't fix it!
No that's bad. It means there's a lack of innovation. Everything can be improved. There is small step from improving to bloating software. Just like Michael Jackson started with anal bleaching and it got out of control... Look what Skype have become. The free software is less prone to bloating and pokemonization, but examples exist, such as Azureus. |
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