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Re:North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist by hirako2000 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:51AM (#50367333)
I also did that, for a team deploying smart contract on chain from local.

It took a couple months to get the pipeline out of their laptop.

Worth it, yes, as we found interesting things in there which explained why they were so reluctant to deploy upgrades.

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Re:North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist by pjc50 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:04AM (#50367561)
> as we found interesting things in there which explained why they were so reluctant to deploy upgrades

.. backdoors which enabled the dev to deploy exploits of their own which wouldn't be visible through CI?

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Re:North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist by hirako2000 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:38PM (#50369719)
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