Post #845309
2026-03-24 16:45 UTC
#Blockchain #DFinity It seems that DFinity's "Internet Computer" is starting to be useful! The guys from
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/self-propagating-malware-poisons-open-source-software-and-wipes-iran-based-machines
used it to store the URL to the CCS server, so they could update it without anybody intervening.
Wouldn't you guess it, their smart contract / Canister Smart Contracts has been taken down by this decentralized machine...
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@ligasser@social.epfl.ch 2026-03-24 16:47
I had a discussion with a guy from secret services once about doing a P2P controlled network of computers. It seems that this is not the way to go, as there don't seem to be many of the CCS running on P2P. Is it difficult to hide the P2P traffic? Is it too frickle? Not enough rendez-vous points?