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Re:Another successful DAO attack recursive split by gcr on Sunday June 19, 2016 @03:12PM (#11934218)
Professional security audits of The DAO's smart contract code never caught this bug. This conclusively shows it's impossible for a mere mortal developer (or even a team of seasoned security professionals) to write smart contracts that behave in predictable ways. As an outsider, I will never use Ethereum for this reason.

The EVM may be reliable, but the humans that use it are completely unreliable, and it's the humans that form the foundation of any distributed system.

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Re:Another successful DAO attack recursive split by nawitus on Sunday June 19, 2016 @04:35PM (#11934552)
It doesn't seem that rational to stop using Ethereum simply because a single smart contract contained a bug. It's a new project so there's bound to be bugs here and there. Of course, maybe your position is that you will never use any Ethereum-like software, which might become impractical in the future.
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Re:Another successful DAO attack recursive split by argonaut on Sunday June 19, 2016 @06:18PM (#11934983)
It's almost like you didn't read the comment. They had experts review their code, and they didn't catch the bug. They had huge public interest, and nobody caught the bug. So the chances are, unless big, breaking changes to the platform are made, the vast majority of contracts that will ever be written will be buggy.
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