V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 This is kinda' sad... From ars technica: Unknown hackers broke into Bitcoinica, a site that trades the virtual currency. by Dan Goodin - May 12, 2012 1:40 am UTC More than $87,000 worth of the virtual currency known as Bitcoin was stolen after online bandits penetrated servers belonging to Bitcoinica, prompting its operators to temporarily shutter the trading platform to contain the damage. Friday's theft came after hackers accessed Bitcoinica's production servers and depleted its online wallet of 18,547 BTC, as individual Bitcoin units are called, company officials said in a blog post published on Friday. It said the heist affected only a small fraction of Bitcoinica's overall bitcoin deposits and that all withdrawal requests will be honored once the platform reopens. Read the rest of the article --> http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2012/05/bitcoins-worth-87000-plundered/ Evidently, they had no database backup either? Is that screwy or what? https://bitcointalk....21159#msg921159 I originally saw this at /. --> http://it.slashdot.o...-had-no-backups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Ha ha what a hoot. Bitcoins. Oh lordy me. If they catch the online bandits will they get twenty virtual years in prison for stealing loads of virtual loot ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 28, 2012 Author Share Posted May 28, 2012 Virtual or not; if something is accepted in return for something of value in a transaction, then the item accepted has value in itself. Bitcoins do have value, as they area accepted for goods and services online. They're even sold for cash. I wouldn't mind having $87K's worth of bitcoins. Ooops! I just noticed that I hadn't posted the link to the original ars technica article above. I fixed that. Read the rest of the article --> http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2012/05/bitcoins-worth-87000-plundered/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Oh I know what BitCoins are. Online bandits was what tickled me and led me of into fantasy land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 28, 2012 Author Share Posted May 28, 2012 Internet highwaymen, eh? A thieving slimeball by any other name is still a... THIEF! It's a good thing I'm too lazy to develop the necessary skills to be a WWW master criminal. I think I'd be pretty good at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 We could start a "business!" Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 29, 2012 Author Share Posted May 29, 2012 Thievery.net? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Giveusyourmoney.com...... Adam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 This is not the biggest draw from the Bitcoin Online Bandits, here's an article from June 2011: New malware ferrets out and steals Bitcoins - The Reg A separate Symantec researcher, Peter Coogan, has theorized a separate way online crooks could profit handsomely from a Bitcoin feature that allows users to “mine” coins by contributing CPU cycles to solving a cryptographic problem. Criminals wielding a botnet of 100,000 infected machines, for example, could generate $97,000 per month, assuming all nodes worked on the problem continuously. And this analysis at the time by Symantec: Bitcoin Botnet Mining - Symantec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 29, 2012 Author Share Posted May 29, 2012 Giveusyourmoney.com...... Adam Aren't the Nigerians using that one already? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Aren't the Nigerians using that one already? Nah that is " Giveusyourmoney.con " only slightly different and easy to make the mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Thievery.net? Thievery Corporation? Oh wait............... http://www.thieverycorporation.com/ I have one of their albums btw, The Richest Man in Babylon, excellent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 I've never heard of them. What would you expect from some old biker f*rt who still watches 1950s and 60s television programs? The last album I bought was the Beatles White Album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Did you have to buy it again when they changed the medium on you or is this still the vinyl White Album? We still have the vinyl White Album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 Nah... I still have that 12" round black plastic disk version. I haven't updated much of my vinyl yet. Don't have the funds. Plus, I'm still not sold on whether digitized versions are better or worse than the old analog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Jim still has much of his music on vinyl too. He's digitized a lot of it. But he would never get rid of the vinyl. It was analog and warm and infinite rather than limited ... it was cool, before digital was cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 And it's coming back too! Vinyl is coming back! Just do a search on vinyl records on Google and you'll see that vinyl is selling big time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 Maybe I should start servicing high quality turntables again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Couldn't hurt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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