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RE: Dao hackers still at large, hackers now targeting Steemit community?, could this be the same hackers? Steemit developers have some security issues to improve
It did say it is possible that it could have been the Dao hackers I didn't say it was for sure them that did it. Sorry if you thought it was misleading. I am still new to the Steemit community. I don't want anybody to be mad. I was just trying to get word out to Steemit developers that they need to revamp security and come up with some better measures to protect against future attacks. I am not a cyber criminal detective so the only way I could have concrete evidence is with digital signatures pointing to exactly who it was. It does raise a good question though it could have been the Dao hackers they still have not been caught from what I have heard so they are still out there maybe hacking away.
Sure it could be them, but it COULD BE ANYONE... but what you've done here is deliberately make an implication that it was the DAO hacker by posing it as a question. This is called Betteridge's Law of Headlines and it is a very sloppy and disingenuous journalism tactic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
For example, I could write a headline as the following: "Could @acassity be the Steem hacker?"
Of course, I have absolutely zero evidence of this but you could be the hacker right? Hopefully this illustrates the point about this style of headline writing to be very misleading.