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Re:Coinbase (YC S12), First Crowd Funded Bitcoin Company, Ra... by h2s on Thursday September 27, 2012 @05:04AM (#4579934)
It is really getting quite silly at this point. People keep building Bitcoin infrastructure in regular data centres as if that's perfectly sufficient.

Check out this article about security at a Visa data centre: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-25/visa-data...

It even has a moat!

Here's an article that illustrates the kind of scrutiny faced by banks when it comes to their data protection practices: http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=22595

It's incredibly stringent stuff and banks get fined hard when they fuck it up.

By contrast, one of the recent Bitcoin heists was made possible because the hackers requested a password reset for the exchange's Rackspace account. Seriously.

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