First I am gonna say I love
@calle. Anyone who shares his spliff with me after 5 days of nonstop conferencing while heavily jetlagged is automatically looked up to with high esteem. π
Plus I have a thing for cypherpunks, anti-establishment people building cool projects. Jk slightly, but mostly not.
Some people have been criticizing the too-in-the-face-of-attackers blasting off about security issues and vulns on X, and how that's counterproductive to the effort. And I always prefer to take all perspectives into consideration and evaluate a situation. There's definitely nuance to what the Red Team response is and is becoming, and how it is and could be perceived.
We can poke around at it all. But in this post I just wanna share a potential example of where critics may have a point to be considered.
I'd assume that anyone actively attacking Bitcoin projects is well acquainted with the Bitcoin ecosystem. They may have even been living inside it for many years.
So when a Red Team member tweets this, I'd assume they know kukks is a BTCPay Server dev.
If I was an attacker, that tweet would signal to me... Get to work on BTCPay Server. It looks like there may just be a vuln to exploit. π
Just saying... And also, I am not pointing fingers. I still hope I'll smoke a joint with Calle sometime in the near future... maybe SF? I'll bring the budd. π
