Re:Ethereum from scratch – Part 1: Ping
by flunhat on Thursday July 20, 2017 @06:48PM
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Sure, but in theory I can change passwords and maintain separate credentials for my banking-related needs.
Short of auditing the Solidity contract code myself, there's nothing I can do to protect myself from the hacks themselves because the very mechanism by which money is transferred is riddled with bugs.
This is mostly just semantics anyway - I'm just trying to establish that writing money-transfer software in a poorly designed language is, one way or another, worse than writing a web app in one.
Short of auditing the Solidity contract code myself, there's nothing I can do to protect myself from the hacks themselves because the very mechanism by which money is transferred is riddled with bugs.
This is mostly just semantics anyway - I'm just trying to establish that writing money-transfer software in a poorly designed language is, one way or another, worse than writing a web app in one.