"The DAO" generally refers to the Slock.it DAO, the first major DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) on Ethereum.
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Where can you check how much Ether has been exploited / stolen from theDAO? [duplicate]
Is there a site where you can check how much Ether has been exploited/stolen from theDAO? So far I only know of the first attack, which was 3 million stolen, but I read more people are doing this same ...
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Could a proxy spigot contract have stopped the DAO fraud?
For anyone who doesn't know about the DAO exploit you can read up on it here.
It seems to me like the attack could have been stopped if payouts went through another contract that was really simple ...
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If Ethereum does a hard fork to return exploited funds from theDAO, does this cause a concern for immutability? [on hold]
I'm still torn on both sides with theDAO fiasco. I'd like to do a hard fork so I can get my coins back, as right now theDAO is pretty much dead moving forward. But does this cause a concern for ...
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How many The DAO recursive call vulnerability attacks have occurred to date?
The first identified The DAO recursive call vulnerability attack occurred on 17 June 2016, with the accounts identified in Which accounts are involved in mounting the recursive call vulnerability ...
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What happens to my DAO tokens after the 2016-June Attack?
Are my DAO tokens lost after the 2016-June attack? I understand they might hard fork to return the ether to everyone, but it seems like that would take some time to implement. What if the hard fork ...
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How many exchanges have delisted ETH as a result of the proposed post DAO hack Ethereum hardfork?
So far I am only aware of the Cryptopia announcement below. Have any other exchanges delisted of threatened to delist ETH yet? If so, which exchanges and how many?
ETH / BTC market is closing
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What was the second vulnerability used in The DAO attack on 17 June 2016?
From The big theDAO heist FAQ by koeppelmann:
How did the attack worked exactly? The attacker managed to combine 2 exploits. The first exploit was to call the split DAO function recursively. That ...
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Smart contract vulnerability handling [duplicate]
Any piece of code will have some degree of vulnerability, and any such code that attracts any level if attention is bound to be exploited through these vulnerabilities.
In conventional ...
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If thief controls large percentage of total ETH supply, what effect will this have on viability of POS?
If a softfork and hardfork were not adopted by majority of miners, and the thief is able to control a large percentage of the total supply of ETH, how will this affect the ability for ethereum to use ...
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Has anyone set up a prediction market on the ETH/USD price conditioned on a hardfork/softfork/nofork?
I know Vitalik has talked about using prediction markets as a way for community members to decide on forks.
There are basically 3 proposals that I've seen.
Hardfork to return all funds to the DAO
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Is the ethereum.org/dao contract vulnerable to recursive call attacks?
Does putting p.executed = true after p.recipient.call() make this vulnerable to recursive calls?
function executeProposal(uint proposalNumber, bytes transactionBytecode) returns (int result) {
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Is the 17 June 2016 operation legaly illigitimate? [on hold]
It has been stated that since the creator of the DAO have called the contracts code as the only legal statement, all things that the code allows are legitimate.
As a counterargument it was said that ...
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How was the recursive call vulnerability attack conducted via proposal #59 when there were no Yes votes?
From Which split proposal was used to mount the recursive call vulnerability attack on The DAO?, proposal #59 is very likely the vector uses by the attacker to hack 3,641,694.241898506 Ether ...
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Have the curators emptied the whitelist of all splits after the 17 June attack?
Would like to understand if an imitator attack is possible in the next days?
Explain if the split list of MEW https://www.myetherwallet.com/#dao-proposals reflects the whitelisting.
Explain if splits ...
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Why isn't the DAO attack repeated, after the first proof that it works?
As of 18 June no hacker repeated the DAO attack, even if for a certain time (until the network is spammed and the recursion is stopped) the hack would work the same way the first attack worked.
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