Re:Malware Wallet ‘Electrum Pro’ Stealing Seed Keys
by ghostly_s on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @01:48PM
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It seems utterly, utterly insane to me that the vendor of a currency wallet software would leave the .com of their product's name unregistered. Using the real Electrum at home but second-guessing that now.
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Re:Malware Wallet ‘Electrum Pro’ Stealing Seed Keys
by marceloneil on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @02:30PM
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Apparently the previous owner of the domain was trying to sell it for "the price of a house", not something an open-source project can typically afford.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8a1drz/psa_electru...
Re:Malware Wallet ‘Electrum Pro’ Stealing Seed Keys
by literallycancer on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @02:30PM
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By definition, the market value of that domain has to be close to the value of all BTC that ever gets stolen by the copycat malware.
Doesn't seem like something a project with no budget can afford.
Re:Malware Wallet ‘Electrum Pro’ Stealing Seed Keys
by drexlspivey on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @02:31PM
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Thomas Voegtlin (creator of electrum) said on reddit that they tried to buy the domain in 2012 but it was too expensive. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8a1drz/psa_electru...