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Does flipping a bit in the ciphertext not flip the same bit in the plain text, for naive implementations?

Was there a moment you lost sight of your phone, while it was unlocked?

Yup, perhaps they put the username of the logged in user in an encrypted/signed cookie, and the private key was in the source code.

Get on a decent program and eat more. Physical strength is an example of a skill that is absolutely a matter of hard work, not being born lucky.

It's very polarizing. That seems like something US politics could use less of.

What's your strategy? Why do you consider yourself a "startup", as opposed to just being a webshop selling pills?

A properly configured $5 VPS can handle a massive amount of traffic if it's just serving a single static (cached) page.

But to follow up on your point: I hope the EB script that updates the pages automatically while doing maintenance will not wait for a response to its POST requests before actually letting EB perform the maintenance. Otherwise you create a crucial unwanted dependency on your status server.

You could make the same claim about bitcoin not being needed, given that we have money and a working banking system. Your POV is just as invested in bitcoin as others are in Ethereum.

You didn't invest in a "distributed investment and unstoppable tool that is distributed", you invested in a partnership with the DAO code explicitly stated as the (potentially legally binding) operating document. If you didn't share the values and conditions in that contract, you probably shouldn't have joined the DAO/partnership.

Regarding your last paragraph: I'm not sure why you're attacking me personally here.

No, the DAO believers explicitly decided "f* the government, in code we trust" and wrote in their contract that whatever the DAO did, according to its code, was right.

You don't have such an agreement with Amazon.

Regarding your edit: I don't want to vote for anything. I'm simply pointing out that there is a (real-life!) agreement, and a party (slock.it et al.) not holding themselves to that agreement, and that I'd enjoy seeing that played out in court, where it belongs.

The DAO was officially introduced by slock.it with "the code of the contract is the absolute truth, any other description is just a guideline", which was hailed as a new miracle by the investors, but now that it doesn't mean mountains of gold the founding principles are suddenly not important anymore, it seems.

The "hacker" simply used the DAO as it was meant to be used (i.e. according to the smart contract code), and deserves the funds. If there is a hard fork, I hope he sues slock.it for controlling the DAO, and for stealing the funds he is owed according to their own terms ("The contract is king").

What? It was clear from the very beginning to anyone who actually looked into what the DAO was and how it worked, except those wanting to strike it rich believing the crypto hype.

You're saying you trusted it, got burned, and are already looking forward to the next one?

The DAO was described as "the code of the contract is the absolute truth, any other description is just a guideline", which was hailed as a new miracle by the investors, and now that it doesn't mean mountains of gold the founding principles are suddenly not important anymore?

The "hacker" simply used the DAO as it was meant to be used (i.e. according to the smart contract code), and deserves the funds. If there is a hard fork, I hope he sues slock.it for controlling the DAO, and stealing the funds he is owed according to their own terms ("The contract is king").

Why can't kids play on a street designed only for traffic to houses on that street? I played on the street all the time as a child. Of course, my streets weren't flooded with drivers trying to save a few minutes by driving through residential areas.

Because having an always-on microphone in your house wasn't enough, let's now put one on your wrist.