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Re:BitFinex down due to Bitcoin security breach - 120k BTC s... by ikeboy on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @07:05AM (#12217094)
But then a compromise of 2 and a zero day remote attack can exploit 1. 1 is offline so no attack not involving insiders can affect it.

Edit: actually nvm, didn't get the part about unidirectional. I don't deal with networking but I assume that's possible physically and there's no way to reverse the flow?

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Re:BitFinex down due to Bitcoin security breach - 120k BTC s... by ch on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @08:36AM (#12217458)
Thats correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network

Sometimes known as a Data Diode.

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