[OT] - A hacker stole $31M of Ether — how it happened, and what it means for Ethereum

[RazvanN via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 4 August 2017 at 05:57:00 UTC, Nick B wrote:
> See - 
> https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-hacker-stole-31m-of-ether-how-it-happened-and-what-it-means-for-ethereum-9e5dc29e33ce
>
> [...]

I don't think the problem was with the blockchain here. It is 
usually a bad idea to have turing-complete scripts over 
blockchains. From what I've seen the bug was that there was 
issued a library call based on a user-provided string. That could 
have never happened if they would have used D with @safe