0.13.0 Binary Safety Warning

[Quantus]

I took the short bus to school you guys are asking a lot of me.
If you ask the community to jump threw all these hoops every time they update your going to lose a lot of people.

A Bitcoin specific video tutorial on how to confirm the Integrity and Authenticity of binaries and then compile them into a working program for windows would make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Bonus points if you can find a perky enthusiastic middle aged girl to do it


It would also be nice to know why the origin of this threat can't be revealed.  Dose the Bitcoin community have its own intelligence arm now? Do we have our own spies informants? If so thats really cool.  

[unamis76]

2 days later, 3 pages later and there is still no clue as to what this threat may be and how to cut this issue from the root up. Domain admin has probably seen these kinds of posts already, so I think it's imperative for him or someone more knowledgeable of this situation to give us a bit of update on why this warning was issued.

[Carlton Banks]

I took the short bus to school you guys are asking a lot of me.
If you ask the community to jump threw all these hoops every time they update your going to lose a lot of people.

A Bitcoin specific video tutorial on how to confirm the Integrity and Authenticity of binaries and then compile them into a working program for windows would be really nice.

Bonus points if you can find a perky enthusiastic middle aged girl to do it

Alot of people might lose some money if they don't practice this, though. I can understand it would be frustrating if you're not confident, but we were all ignorant about PGP once.

My strong advice to anyone: take control of your computer. Learn the fundamentals about hardware and software, learn about using a command prompt, learn basic HTML and CSS. All these kind of basics (which children should all learn going into the 21st century) are the new basics; the old basics are beyond simple now, children can learn those just by watching others do it. Just as we're currently divided into computer users and neo-Ludd technophobes today, when those technophobes barely register in real life any more, the divided will between hands-on computer people and people who demand that it "just works" (i.e. "please don't make me think too much"). PGP wouldn't seem so daunting to those with the hands-on approach.

[Lauda]

A Bitcoin specific video tutorial on how to confirm the Integrity and Authenticity of binaries and then compile them into a working program for windows would make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

That's a good suggestion. IMO it is generally better to have video walkthroughs than just written guides. This applies to both building Bitcoin from source and verifying the authenticity of the download. It would really be helpful if someone created one (I do wonder why nobody did do that so far?).

Bonus points if you can find a perky enthusiastic middle aged girl to do it

You're asking for too much.

Dose the Bitcoin community have its own intelligence arm now? Do we have our own spies informants? If so thats really cool.  

We do, the BSA - Bitcoin Security Agency. 

2 days later, 3 pages later and there is still no clue as to what this threat may be and how to cut this issue from the root up.

I guess the information is there, but it isn't public. I do recall reading on IRC that maxwell talked to cobra.

[unamis76]

2 days later, 3 pages later and there is still no clue as to what this threat may be and how to cut this issue from the root up.

I guess the information is there, but it isn't public. I do recall reading on IRC that maxwell talked to cobra.

Then the information isn't there. There should at least be an explanation on why the information isn't being disclosed in case it's something private. Sorry being so critical about this, but this is what I think.

I guess I'll have to start hanging around on IRC.

[Lauda]

Then the information isn't there. There should at least be an explanation on why the information isn't being disclosed in case it's something private. Sorry being so critical about this, but this is what I think.

I forgot to answer this post. This doesn't mean that they don't have a reasoning behind the warning, it just means that they don't want to disclose it with the public.

I guess I'll have to start hanging around on IRC.

It can end up being useful for you.
This really needs more visibility as 0.13.0 has been tagged. Verify your downloads or optimally build from source yourself!