Monday, April 4, 2016

Swiftcoin hacking challenge

John McAfee challenged hackers to attempt to break into his Swiftcoin program. He claims that if anyone is able to, there is a hefty reward. Continued below.



John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus program, has an open challenge for people to hack the Swiftcoin and Swiftmail services. The challenge is a statement on how the government should not require backdoors for investigators to use that would compromise the security of the users. Bitcoin Warrior has a good post outlining the terms of the hack (this is the link to the article.) To summarize, the hacker is to ". . . execute the attack against SwiftCoin, reveal the contents of SwiftMail and/or steal SwiftCoin then show how it was done." (Bitcoinwarrior.net) The website for the program is found at http://www.johnmcafeeswiftmail.com/. Last month, the hack challenge resulting in $10,000 was never won.

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