Warning! Kaspersky Alerts Users of Malware and 'Blockchain Abuse'

No “Piss off for no reason” is my interpretation of what you originally said, as despite asking, you have still given no reason:

Why? You have just totally spun this story and as far as I can see from the link you gave (not a link actually), there is very little info anywhere, certainly not involving hundreds of thousands of Atheists.
The few people I can find seem to be on bitcointalk and a number of very important points are raised. The guy is a Catholic running a mining pool and inserting Catholic prayers in all the block headers…its definitely not the situation you portrayed.
I will always address misinformation, wherever it appears…whatever the thread…and not deliberately to piss people off for no reason.

There are ways to block stuff without a centralized authority. I shared some thoughts on that topic.

@polpolrene in light of @happybeing’s concern, a better way to say is there are ways to not display (or filter out) content.

What HB is concerned about is not that, but the inability to not host certain content from the perspective of negative PR and maybe other issues.
Say someone (such as NSA) posts some advanced weapon designs to a public share. Should the network be taken down because it’s supposedly in everyone’s interest? Things of that nature.

I said I estimated millions have seen the news and based on my own sampling of those who I knew of that news, a very large percentage of people were worked up in the same way the Kasperskians are. If just two million people saw the news, there my estimate is reasonable.

Whatever. I already told you don’t give a shit about his reasons and intentions. He could put in there the most disgusting ASCII porn or whatever, it’s his own business.

And of course he was putting that stuff in there to piss people off and get free marketing.
Only a moron would wake up in the morning and run a JSON script to look for bits and pieces of the Bible in the blockchain so that he can tell his morning prayer.
It wasn’t meant for reading, but for the busybodies to keep themselves concerned about other people’s actions and drive free marketing to his site/profile/whatever.

I do think I understand his topic. But hey, I can’t look in someone’s brain… But look at this.

To me that’s not what you are talking about regarding NSA putting stuff on blockchains or as public data.

If 99.99999% of all users decide to use an App to filter stuff out, to me that’s almost the same as blocking. But okay, give you that one…

Well, okay, we are both guessing, I would say I put out there a truly bad scenario while HB was being polite and used less extreme but nevertheless unpleasant examples.

A “democratic” solution (which I despise) would be to take down whatever 50%+1 voters think should be taken down.
Since MaidSafe is a private organization, they could act on their own and take down that 0.00001% of bad content and that would be perfectly fine although it wouldn’t solve anything as the same info would surface on a forked network.

One thing is sure, we’ll be seeing plenty of interesting legal action in coming years as crypto solutions become prevalent!

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As you yourself point out, the nature of the small number of complaints that I can find on the whole Internet have nothing to do with Catholicism per se and they are certainly not from “Hundreds of thousands of busybody Atheists”…
The guy sounds like an absolutely obnoxious bigoted Catholic fundamentalist anyway - the majority of complaints seem related to his expressed opinions in various threads, which of course he’s entitled to, but this is definitely not a case of some massive group irrational whining by Atheists at nothing - that is complete nonsense, for which you have provided no evidence.
Here’s the lovely prayer guy, talking about his fellow Humans (Luke-Jr)

17:53 < luke-jr> people should be hostile toward false religions and homosexuals, at least
17:53 < graingert> luke-jr: why homosexuals?
17:53 < luke-jr> graingert: same reason people should be hostile to serial killers
17:53 < graingert> luke-jr: because homosexuals go round killing people?
17:53 < luke-jr> worse

17:58 < Blitzboom> what’s worth than murder, homosexuality?
17:59 < Blitzboom> worse*
17:59 < noagendamarket> Apparently it is Blitzboom
17:59 < graingert> Blitzboom: someone who is luke-jr:gay is someone who is worse than a serial killer
17:59 < luke-jr> Blitzboom: yes

The guy’s a total prick and this is Hate speech…

This seems to be a joint effort between Vitaly Kamluk from Kapersky Lab and Christian Karam of INTERPOL


DECENTRALIZED MALWARE ON THE BLOCKCHAIN was a talk presented at the ‘Blackhat Asia 2015’ (Video not yet available)

In this talk, INTERPOL will frame the scope of this future threat and provide potential solutions for a threat surrounding the blockchain technology.

The blockchain is the public ledger stacking all bitcoin/altcoins transactions. It is constantly growing as "completed" blocks are automatically added to it with a new set of records. The blocks are added to the blockchain in a linear and chronological order.

The blockchain has complete information about the addresses and their balances right from the genesis block to the most recently completed block through the mining process. Depending on the crypto-currency and the implementation of its protocols, there would be a fixed open space, where data can be stored, referenced or hosted on the blockchain within encrypted transactions and their records.

This very versatile nature of the blockchain offers great opportunities for future innovation especially in decentralized systems.The research focus revolves around the threat of embedding decentralized chunks of malware on the blockchain by either hosting it or referencing it with cascaded pointers.

Transactions and data are encrypted throughout the blockchain networks using different versions of public/private key encryption. Could malware survive eternally inside crypto-transactions? A proof of concept will be explained highlighting the concerns revolving around the "abuse and bloating" of the blockchain while comparing it to previous malware hosting and deployment models.

@janitor

Well, okay, we are both guessing, I would say I put out there a truly bad scenario while HB was being polite and used less extreme but nevertheless unpleasant examples.

Correct. My point was that vandals can post stuff publicly that will have a worse impact than if they host it privately (dark net). Vandals would include state saboteurs, criminals, or competitors.

We already see milder versions of this with revenge porn that once posted can never be taken back. It can though be tackled to a degree - sites taken down for example. On SAFE, once a site/URL is up, the content will always be there. This is an issue both for SAFE and any innocents affected (subjects or viewers). Filtering mitigates only to a degree, particularly with regard to sabotage of SAFE.

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We already established that “abuse” of cryptocurrency doesn’t exist and this topic is about malware and “abuse” of the blockchain.
So please fork a new Topic (where I won’t follow you), refocus or take a break.

That’s (a case of poorly exercised right to) free speech, but if you want to protect the blockchain and its poor users, you can organize a group of concerned citizens who buy all the bitcoin out there so that this guy can’t use bitcoin to send out his hate messages. Then repeat that with all other media in this universe.

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Excuse me, but you started the whole thing by relaying a completely bogus story to which I replied, so you are at least as culpable as me…lol
You appear to be continuing making your points but do not want me to reply. If you don’t want me to reply, then stop talking to me and suggesting what I should do, as we have mods for that.
At least you now seem to realise the nature of the complaints now and that they were from a cross section of the population - not hundreds of thousands of “busy body” Atheists.
I suggest you just stop making arguments and talking to me if you do not want me to reply. If you continue, then I will continue to reply…like it or lump it. :smiley:

Yay Kaspersky has read about maidsafe and storj