Re:Coinbase user emails and full names leaked
by Zigurd on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @01:10PM
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That sounds innocuous. But it's easy for, say, mobile badware to harvest contact lists. By targeting non-anonymous bitcoin holders as a "seed" list and using exposed contact lists like LinkedIn contacts, you can ratchet your way up into disclosing a lot of people who would prefer not to be known, lest the become phishing targets.
Doesn't seem innocuous. Maybe coinbase ought to be making pseudonymity more easily accessible.
Doesn't seem innocuous. Maybe coinbase ought to be making pseudonymity more easily accessible.