[2017-04-28] Bitmain Can Remotely Shut Down Your Antminer (and Everyone Else’s)

[LiteCoinGuy]

Bitmain Can Remotely Shut Down Your Antminer (and Everyone Else’s)

Major Bitcoin mining hardware producer Bitmain can remotely shut down almost all active Antminer machines. Dubbed the “Antbleed” backdoor, abuse of the vulnerability could probably knock half of all hash power on the Bitcoin network offline.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bi ... one-elses/

[grabberfish]

Bitmain Can Remotely Shut Down Your Antminer (and Everyone Else’s)

Major Bitcoin mining hardware producer Bitmain can remotely shut down almost all active Antminer machines. Dubbed the “Antbleed” backdoor, abuse of the vulnerability could probably knock half of all hash power on the Bitcoin network offline.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bi ... one-elses/

More bullshit claims from LiteCoinGuy. Here's an earlier thread exposing his lies and deceit: bitcoin-discussion/beware-bitmain-is-at ... 24213.html

PSA: LiteCoinGuy is a lying troll. Ignore this user.