TBH, i think this is a pretty shitty thing to do. It definitely isnt ethical hacking, and one can only hope that the owners pursue legal measures if your claims are true.
I agree with your point.. but i dont think you should be fucking with other peoples money to make it.
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Sigmajin, based on this comment and your last, I'm not sure you 100% understand the situation.
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OK, i was a little pissy bittrex is fucking with my money.
anyway
1 yeah, i get that the private key obviates the need for the password here... my concern at the time was that after the users got their accounts back, the hacker could take the key, work their way backward to the users password, then use that password to attack other accounts.
2 SO what happens if the value of their assets decreases by 50% while theyre messing around with password recovery?
3 You could have proved your point by contacting tptb with the password list. Or upvoting this post.. or running some kind of script to make them all post horse pornography every few hours until they changed their password.
I know if it happened to me, id be pissed (even though i dont keep a ton of money here)... i guess im not behind it but i realize it was well intentioned.
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yeah, dk if you saw my post pointing it out but i think the 7-14 attack came from @goodgame... the script he was using is still in all of his posts if its him, and the domain it was pinging (steemit.uk) was regged that day. https://steemit.com/doyourpart/@sigmajin/um-this-guy-is-trying-to-do-something-bad-right
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I'm actually shocked by this. There is really no legal distinction between "white hats" and "black hats". Nobody gave "robinhood" permission to hack 500 Steemit accounts. "robinhood", in fact, did "take the money"... since only "robinhood" now has access to these funds.
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Incorrect, as I stated in my post, I updated these accounts to Steemit's key (not my key) so only Steemit has access to the funds. This fact can be verified by inspecting the blockchain.
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