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April 25, 2013, 08:17:42 PM
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Well, as far as i can tell this isn't exactly their fault. I'm assuming that they'll actually be installing their own servers in a data center instead of renting a VPS at OVH...

If you have something that's very important to take care of, would you leave it in the hands of some random service provider, og would you ensure you hosted it on a dedicated server, in an environment or facility where you had physical access to it, and where strict security restrictions were present ?

Using a third party hosting provider that might not even be aware of all the valuable information stored on your servers, that's asking for a disaster to happen. Although it might be a breach at the hosting provider, that's still Paymium's fault, as they trusted them with the responsibility in the first place.

To me, it seems like their security is not up to bank level standards at the very least.. They're hacked 3 times now (that we know of), bitcoin-central twice and instawallet once.
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April 26, 2013, 07:34:19 AM
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Good security approach. Hackers you are welcome to inspect code and hack us!

https://github.com/davout/bitcoin-central
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April 26, 2013, 09:49:57 AM
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Well, as far as i can tell this isn't exactly their fault. I'm assuming that they'll actually be installing their own servers in a data center instead of renting a VPS at OVH...

I'd be surprised if the top level package offered by OVH allowed for password reset without some kind of verification.  We've had this situation before where it turns out that hosting services had available top tier packages but Bitcoin services were using lower tier packages meant for less critical operations.

It is the fault of service providers if they choose hosting services without knowing that a password can be reset without verification.  That's the kind of stuff you research before you choose a provider.

All I can say is that this is Bitcoin. I don't believe it until I see six confirmations.
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May 01, 2013, 07:28:09 PM
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Good security approach. Hackers you are welcome to inspect code and hack us!

https://github.com/davout/bitcoin-central
You'd prefer a security through obscurity approach?
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May 02, 2013, 08:43:52 AM
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Good security approach. Hackers you are welcome to inspect code and hack us!

https://github.com/davout/bitcoin-central
You'd prefer a security through obscurity approach?

What are passwords iyo?

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