Re:153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack
by kbenson on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @07:22PM
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That may be, but if so, it might be worse. What's worse, not getting a lot of uptake for this idea that's been hard going for others, or getting the uptake because of trade-offs you made that make it a ticking time-bomb that may damage the reputation of the idea for years to come and set it back?
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Re:153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack
by dahdum on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @09:05PM
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Solidity is like PHP in the 90's, easy to learn and easy to screw up. Though Solidity just compiles to the EVM, and there is no reason new, safer languages can't be built on top.
As far as I can remember, the EVM has never failed, just programmers.
Re:153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack
by kbenson on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @09:38PM
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That comparison may be apt. PHP at that time was a mix of some good ideas (ease of deployment) with some horrible ones (register globals on by default is unexcusable), and some poor planning. We all lived with the fallout of that for a very long time.
The register globals issue could have been avoided at very little cost, if any cost at all, to the popularity and spread of the language and many millions of dollars and much personal information would have been saved.