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September 23, 2016, 05:17:59 PM |
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yes there is no doubt about this that it is illegal if some one hack your BTC address, because it is just like if you are going to steal the bank account of a person, and this really a big crime.
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cjmoles (OP)
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September 23, 2016, 07:14:12 PM |
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yes there is no doubt about this that it is illegal if some one hack your BTC address, because it is just like if you are going to steal the bank account of a person, and this really a big crime.
Yes....but....The difference between banks and the Bitcoin platform is that banks are highly regulated and centralized on privately controlled servers....Bitcoin is largely unregulated and it's not controlled by centralized servers....so there's a catch there, right? |
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September 23, 2016, 07:21:23 PM |
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it is good to learn hacking on your own wallet but what the reason behind that ?
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September 23, 2016, 08:23:28 PM |
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it is good to learn hacking on your own wallet but what the reason behind that ?
My question presented itself because my funds were compromised by a site which had THEIR security compromised which allowed the attackers to intercept my emails "man in the middle." They must've gone thru my emails and found some attachments with jsons files....While they didn't hack my machine directly, they did acquire direct access to some of my clients before I could encrypt the pk's....which are now theirs because they encrypted them before I had the chance. So, if they have control of the pk, then they own the money, and I could not find any laws that stated otherwise. It seems to me that deference goes to whoever controls the private key and there isn't much that can be done about that accept the application of preemptive security measures....but sometimes preemptive measures are not effective <--- especially with MITM attacks. |
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October 02, 2016, 11:54:04 AM |
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Its very good question but i think that here is don't have any laws to prevent these threats if such a problem occurred than who will asset it and on which bases they will make a good solution for it.the best thing is that you will be very care full.
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October 03, 2016, 03:19:25 PM |
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This is illegal but it is quite difficult to prove and find who stole your Bitcoin. These hackers know how to hide their tracks well, so call a very small chance.  it does not matter that either you can prove it or not but morally it is not good and totally illegal and that is enough, it is just a type of stealing some ones bank account. Yes i also agree with you , there is no doubt about this, if some one hacking your Bitcoin wallet it mean that he is just like hacking your bank account and is going to steal your money, therefore it s totally illegal. |
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October 12, 2016, 10:33:33 PM |
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This is illegal but it is quite difficult to prove and find who stole your Bitcoin. These hackers know how to hide their tracks well, so call a very small chance. it does not matter that either you can prove it or not but morally it is not good and totally illegal and that is enough, it is just a type of stealing some ones bank account. Yes i also agree with you , there is no doubt about this, if some one hacking your Bitcoin wallet it mean that he is just like hacking your bank account and is going to steal your money, therefore it s totally illegal. i am also agree with you, stealing of bitcoin wallet is just like stealing the bank account of a person, so it is totally illegal for some one who is going to steal the bitcoin wallet key from some one. |
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October 12, 2016, 11:48:33 PM |
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yes there is no doubt that hacking of bitcoin wallet is illegal for every one, it is just like if some one is stealing money from you, although there no report can be put in police station or can be claim any where else as it is not a legal currency but still morally it is not good.
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ayesha sadiqa
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October 15, 2016, 04:26:17 AM |
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This is illegal but it is quite difficult to prove and find who stole your Bitcoin. These hackers know how to hide their tracks well, so call a very small chance. it does not matter that either you can prove it or not but morally it is not good and totally illegal and that is enough, it is just a type of stealing some ones bank account. yes i also agree with you that it is really morally illegal to steal or hack the bitcoin wallet and second is that private wallet is the property of a person and and if some one is stealing the property of a person it means that is just an illegal activity and no one can consider it as legal. |
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October 15, 2016, 09:21:40 PM |
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yes there is no doubt about this that it is totally illegal for anyone to hack the bitcoin wallet of someone, as it is just like bank account and someone get access to your access so it is illegal and there is no doubt about this.
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October 16, 2016, 12:22:05 PM |
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Hacking is always illegal but not always punished. So the only choice is to protect your bitcoin wallet from hackers.
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October 18, 2016, 06:15:41 AM |
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Of course it is illegal thing. There is the intention to steal because of what you just stated. But there is no or I have not heard of anything or someone that goes to court because of stealing bitcoins. The question now is how would you retrieve the stolen bitcoins to you? How will you know who was or were the culprit? And finally, what would you do now?
as you can only receive bitcoin accidentally from a valid address so you can easily return it to him to the safe address from where you really receive it. and through this way the person can get his bitcoins back. |
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October 18, 2016, 07:23:23 AM |
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It is not only illegal, but it is a crime. Although the peculiarities of such a crime depend on the given law of the applicable territory, by principle in all (at least democratic) jurisdictions, refraining someone of the possession of his/her property is deemed to be a crime. The debate, whether bitcoin is money, commodity or something in between is not relevant here. The fact is that someone is its owner through regular means of obtaining such property, without damaging the position of others.
Criminal Law requires the existence of actus reus and mens rea in the case. What i have described was the actus reus, which is taking over the control of property without the will of its owner.
Now, mens rea means the mind of a criminal. That means that the person who perpetrated the actus reus was doing it willingly, presupposedly knowing about the consequences and presupposedly knowing that such an act was against the interests and the will of the owner of the property.
Therefore it does not matter how Bitcoin was taken from someone's wallet. Even if the private key was negligently on the owner's work desk, it is a crime using it for anyone else, without the permission of the owner.
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October 18, 2016, 08:21:47 PM |
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yes there is no doubt about this because hacking of bitcoin wallet is just like if some one is going to hack your bank account, although you cannot complaint against this .
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October 25, 2016, 01:13:46 PM |
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hacking into someones wallet is illegal but i don't know whether it is really that easy to prove the hack ,if that was easy then the hackers that hacked accounts in major exchanges would have being inside a cell,until and unless the hacker leave behind some clues it is hard to recover the lost coins
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Ryananda
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October 29, 2016, 09:18:40 AM |
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Yes indeed if someone were to hack BTC wallet was included in the act of theft in technology in my opinion. Maybe it could be categorized into illegal activities, but there has been no legal action either to take action against such action and no responsibility to replace from the parties involved, so that you can do is keep your account information and well.
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October 29, 2016, 05:11:46 PM |
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Yes it's illegal in 99% or more in the world, that's like hacking a creditcard and even hacking a computer not belonging to you is illegal therefore of course hacking something holding money is illegal, following the hacker is pretty tricky though.
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October 31, 2016, 12:24:34 PM |
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Of course this is illegal.
Its theft of digital goods.
agree with you. hacking is illegal activity in fact hacking belonging to crime. in my country there are laws for hackers, on the laws hacker will be punished. so, of course hacking is illegal and include crime. |
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wahb
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November 01, 2016, 02:17:53 PM |
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i do not think that it is legal for any one, i think it iis totally illegal and it is just like stealy some one property or some one bank account, which is really illegal. therefore hacking of some one bitcoin wallets is totally illegal.
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December 06, 2016, 07:21:46 PM |
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In countries with roman law system and no regulation of bitcoin this wouldn't be considered as crime anyway, because there is no precedent in the law system. However, if you take Great Britain which starts to regulate Bitcoin now and has precedent in the law system, I guess it can be consudered in the court and you can try to do something about such a case. Well, at least, it can work theoretically.
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