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minus-squarevrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down3·1 year agonot stole. Were given. If code is law, then they just found the right way to ask. And the code gave the money to them, because they asked nicely.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoCode isn’t law. The article above does a bad job of explaining it and makes it sound like it was just a weekend bug find. It wasn’t a bug, it was them setting up a bunch of fake entities misdirect funds. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/sophisticated-25m-ethereum-heist-took-about-12-seconds-doj-says/
not stole. Were given.
If code is law, then they just found the right way to ask. And the code gave the money to them, because they asked nicely.
Code isn’t law. The article above does a bad job of explaining it and makes it sound like it was just a weekend bug find. It wasn’t a bug, it was them setting up a bunch of fake entities misdirect funds.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/sophisticated-25m-ethereum-heist-took-about-12-seconds-doj-says/