On 05/17/11 11:09, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Alaric Snell-Pym [17/05/11 11:04 +0100]: >> It means "the current bounty for finding a flaw in the cryptographic >> basis of bitcoin is about $209 million" :-) > > you don't need to find the crypto basis of bitcoin as much as just take > over a few zombied pcs that are bitcoin users, I guess? >
If you take control of somebody's PC you can steal their bitcoins by nabbing their private keys... ...but you can probably also snarf their online banking details, or even just their card details when they buy something online. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/
