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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ by waterlesscloud on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @02:11PM (#7219652)
There's also a story here about responsible disclosure.

People are making the case (and I tend to agree) that Gox should have contacted the other exchanges in private to discuss this problem before going public with it.

There's a very good chance this widespread attack is a direct result of Gox's announcement.

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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ by glomph on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @02:22PM (#7219739)
So first gox is criticised for blaming an old bug and now they are criticised for irresponsible disclosure. Funny old world.
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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ by kzrdude on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @02:25PM (#7219760)
What needed responsible disclosure was the fact that Gox was clueless.
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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ by maxerickson on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @02:50PM (#7219923)
It contains multitudes.
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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ by o_nate on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @02:41PM (#7219864)
A+
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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ by watty on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @02:29PM (#7219784)
It seems the general consensus believes it was MtGox's fault that they didn't handle the protocol correctly. The only way to spin this on MtGox is to blame their protocol problems on BitCoin itself.
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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ by Anderkent on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @06:19AM (#7223714)
Right, the main argument for that was 'look, no other exchange is having problems!'. Then someone actually started using the bug against other exchanges, and suddenly other exchanges are having problems. But that's mtgox's fault too!
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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ by shachar on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @03:37PM (#7220248)
The attack started prior to the disclosure.
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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ by maaku on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:25PM (#7221320)
No, someone intentionally or accidentally used gox's poor handling of mutant transactions to extract double-payment from their customer support team. Gox blamed the bitcoin protocol for their own stupidity. Then after the press release, someone started a massive DoS attack against the bitcoin network. What happened to gox over the last couple of months is totally different from what what is going on right now.
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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ by shachar on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @10:27AM (#7224760)
No, you are wrong, sir. There are many who are recording all Bitcoin network traffic, myself included. I can see that Gox had all their outbound transactions slightly changed and rebroadcast. After that went public, being now outed and in the open, having nothing to gain from stealth the attacker moved to attacking everyone they could.
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