back to article Roll your own Bitcoin client? Prepare to be raided

The engineer behind the Heartbleed checker has created a tool to hunt down wallets from poorly secured transactions that leak private keys. Filippo Valsorda released the Blockchainer tool to Github following a presentation at the Hack in the Box conference in Malaysia today. The CloudFlare engineer demonstrated how known …

  1. Robert Helpmann??
    Childcatcher

    Living in the Wild, Wild West

    Whoever is developing software has responsibility to users who do not know enough to protect themselves

    Yes, but what happens when they don't know enough to protect themselves? Oh, wait...

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