490 sats \ 8 replies \ @kepford 20 Feb \ on: Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle bitcoin
Dang
Wow. Your distro's package manager is supposed to be fairly trustworthy. That's real bad.
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No one should use shitcoin wallets like Exodus.
No one should download wallets from any source besides the devs repository (GitHub/GitLab).
No one should input their seedphrase on a internet conected device, specially a computer.
He got what he deserve.
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No, people don't deserve to lose their life savings for acting rationally, using the recommended method of installing apps in their OS. Get off your high horse. This is an obvious failure on Canonical's part.
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I think we miss the main point when we start talking about what they deserve.
Canonical should not state apps are safe.
Users should not do all of the things that Juan says but that could be ignorance.
Bottom line, a hard lesson was learned. When you trust others, you are depending on them. That is risky. Canonical should either do a much better job vetting apps or remove this safe language. False security is VERY dangerous.
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Put another way. I personally feel bad for this person. I'm not saying others should. I don't care if Juan believes this person deserves this. Point is this person made some choices that resulted in losing 9 BTC. These are choices that most stackers would not make. If they asked me I would have told them pretty much what Juan writes. People have a false sense of security in general. It would be nice if you could trust package managers for bitcoin but really you can't.
None of that excuses Canonical. I wasn't using snaps and I never will.