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The Silk Road Bitcoin Hack

Hacker And The Fed

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Do You Know What a Race Condition Is?

Hector Navarrette: I think it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The reality is that this was a criminal enterprise, and it had to be taken down. He says if an application's logic is flawed or you do not have mechanisms in place to remediate a race condition, then what happens is if an attacker is able to execute a similar function at the same time? "I'll take all the bullets this time," he tells his co-hosts.

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