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  • Oh so these incidents are why we have regulated markets! Who’d have thought?
    by bcvvvy
  • This scam website had it coming.
    by VCFundedGenYer
  • How much tax revenue does the UK government get from polymarket. Why should UK tax payers pay to investigate a breach of their systems?
    by mvc
  • This is the same style of attack that took 1.5B from Bybit ~1yr ago.

    Fundamentally: There is no way to lock webapps to reproducible builds.

    Except: IPFS could do it but IPFS has been very very poorly maintained.

    I published IPFS-boot ~1yr ago and its a simple idea:

    1. deploy a webapp bootloader using something immutable like IPFS

    2. bootloader is basically react hot reloading except user agrees what to load

    3. bootloader polls a mutable list of app updates and user agree or disagree each update

    Now the bootloader has a static content addressable URI but it can also do updates. TBH I think IPFS may be a lost cause but something needs to take its place and this idea is transferable to whatever that is. https://github.com/rhodey/IPFS-boot

    by rhodey
  • Discussion yesterday (46 points, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295883

    Wired's coverage (25 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296328

    WSJ's coverage (20 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294287

    by gnabgib
  • Kind of insane how much of the front page is about security compromises today.
    by trio8453
  • Friend of mine, who's been treated as the unlucky one as an inside joke, made a binance account - after avoiding crypto for years - just hours before the hack happened, it's now official lore that this whole chain of security incidents is entirely his fault.
    by dumberquestions
  • About a month and a half I made a Polymarket account with my Google login. I never traded anything. My account got hacked and they started draining my bank account. Polymarket support was completely non responsive. My bank reversed the charges. About 5 days later I got a text from Polymarket support telling me that it looked like I was having trouble making a deposit and they could help me out. I sent them screenshots of them not responding to my support requests and then never heard back.

    My Google account was not compromised. I wouldn't touch Polymarket ever again. There is some kind of massive scam happening here.

    by sroerick

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