Just wow.
Just wow.
The original author reused an old domain for the bitcoin exchange afaik.
http://www.dailydot.com/business/bitcoin-crash-i-lost-everyt...
Edit: Ok so it WAS in that thread just not something that the only "verified" person said. I'm inclined to believe it's true however it hasn't been confirmed and posting it here in quotes like that given the title (indicating the person running the AMA said this) is misleading at best.
We don't know that server was used in production, but it's consistent with the complete anarchy we hear prevailed at Mt. Gox, yet again.
And I think Karpeles was going through that phase at this time. I vividly remember seeing his blogposts on reimplementing an SSH server in PHP, just to show that it's doable. I wouldn't be surprised to see that code and other similar terribad ideas running in production.
People basically just keep chasing local Optima until the unholy mess becomes self-sustaining as real improvement becomes more difficult and you can always look back and say, well at least we have "backups" even if it's just a copy on another disk in the same machine.
Even if this didn't happen at Mt. Gox I'm sure it's happened in other places. I've heard of people storing the queries that they were going to send to the database in a database row.
In fairness, that's not all that different from prepared statements...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_b...
> Someone brute forced Jed's account (as told to me by Mark).
> I was there about 3 days before it happened, and I received 3 emails about an SQL injection vulnerability (which Mark ignored/thought unworthy).