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tuxmascot on Dec 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: MIT Media Lab's concerns about the cryptocurrency ...

Be rest assured that this is NOT a common practice.

This is clearly someone trying to save face over a practically trivial break in their hashing function.

xwvvvvwx on Dec 22, 2017 [–]

Think about what kind of engineer would try to save face by claiming to have deliberately introduced a critical security vulnerability into their payment system.

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