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When BBC News shows a screen recording of a browser on the news, they might want to pre-install an ad-blocker.
This is a good news follow-up to yesterday's blog post about that Exodus scammy app in the Snap store.
https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-follow-up/
Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: Follow up 2.0
On Tuesday, I blogged about a series of Bitcoin scam apps published in the Canonical Snap store. Edit: This section updated on 2024-02-23 to include a Canonical response as two new forum posts from sabdfl (Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical). Two things! Three things! Zerothly, today we have a response from Canonical. There are actually two new posts from Mark. One in response to the thread asking whether crypto apps should be banned from the Snap store, and the other an acceptance that identity verification might need to be stronger on the Snap store.
"Look ma! I was on the front page of hackernews"
"That's nice, dear."
Very happy that my aged little Ubuntu 18.04 (32-bit) VPS at @bitfolk coped perfectly under load. Also, annual reminder to myself that I should probably upgrade it...
A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time; if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last.
This is a rather long blog post to accompany @linuxmatters episode 23.
https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/
Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle
Edit: There’s a short follow-up to this post: Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: Follow up. tl;dr: A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time, and if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last. This post turned out longer than I expected. So if you don’t have the time there’s a briefer summary at the bottom under “In summary (the tl;dr)” along with my suggestions on what Canonical should do now.
A group of aliens just landed and you get into a conversation about Open Source.
They ask "Why should we care about that?".
What's your answer?
Humo{u}r me.
They ask "Why should we care about that?".
What's your answer?
Humo{u}r me.
Me: meticulously cleans glasses 🤓
Also me: puts glasses on while smudging the lens with my fat thumb 🫠
Also me: puts glasses on while smudging the lens with my fat thumb 🫠
Y'know what we don't talk about enough here?
Favourite text editors.
Weird that.
Favourite text editors.
Weird that.