From: Chris Acheson <chris_acheson@lavabit•com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The forums...
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:07:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E25B9E9.5020906@lavabit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E2492CE.9040500@lavabit.com>
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Could we just get the forum link removed entirely? The current Google
search link does very little to disassociate the forum from the Bitcoin
project. There's no need to have a forum link anyway, as there's
already a link to the wiki, which links to the forum, and can be edited
to link to other unofficial forums as well.
I just came across a thread by someone offering to sell a bitcoin mining
virus:
<http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=21524.0>
I know there'd been complaints about illegal activity, but this is a
whole new level of bad PR compared to people just offering to sell
drugs. Especially when there are responses like:
"Excuse me while I put this on every computer at my school."
"This would be so awesome if I could install it at every computer in my
college lab. So many bitcoins for me."
It doesn't just look like some one-off cybercriminal spam, it looks like
forum members in general support this kind of thing.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-19 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 20:08 Chris Acheson
2011-07-19 6:54 ` John Smith
2011-07-19 17:07 ` Chris Acheson [this message]
2011-08-12 17:32 ` Vladimir Marchenko
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2011-07-16 9:34 John Smith
2011-07-16 10:54 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-16 11:07 ` John Smith
2011-07-16 11:20 ` John Smith
2011-07-16 23:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-17 1:16 ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-17 2:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-17 2:12 ` Robert McKay
2011-07-17 10:46 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-17 17:12 ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-18 4:36 ` John Smith
[not found] ` <CAJNQ0suMJAApg-fK70BBAHRT_41jc4-HMwxaHHccg0O+MOvV0A@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-17 10:59 ` John Smith
2011-07-17 12:30 ` Luke-Jr
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