Cornell Professor Sirer Blasts Back: Asks ChangeTip to Prove Their Commitment to Privacy
A Cornell professor is done hearing about how bad ChangeTip feels when he called them out for their, what he believes to be, potentially dangerous business model. A few weeks ago, Emin Gün Sirer said that ChangeTip needed to die a quick death due to the fact that the company has the ability to link user data on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit directly to corresponding bitcoin addresses. Because ChangeTip's parent company recently raised $3.5 million in seed funding, Sirer believes the company will eventually cripple under the financial pressure and sell user data to interested parties. As....
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A few weeks back, Cornell Professor Emin Gün Sirer accused the popular social tipping platform ChangeTip for lacking well-intentioned privacy policies, due to the fact that the company links users' data on social media platforms like Facebook, Reddit and Twitter; thus, making their private information vulnerable to interested parties. ChangeTip's CEO Nick Sullivan however rubbished the claims made by Prof Sirer and told CoinDesk about their policy which clearly says that they will not sell users' data to third parties without their permission. He further showed-off his professional track....
Emin Gün Sirer, the Cornell professor who recently said that ChangeTip needed to die a quick death has returned to the offensive on the issue of privacy. ChangeTip CEO Nick Sullivan recently criticized Sirer´s statements saying that it felt “like a charity being yelled at”. What Sullivan did not do though was to explain how ChangeTip could even remotely be considered a “charity”. Sirer points out that not only is ChangeTip a for profit corporation but its direct links to social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Reddit almost guarantee that at some point user data will be....
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The Cornell computer scientist who helped identify vulnerabilities in The DAO revealed 10 new exploits in its code at an event in New York. The statements from Emin Gün Sirer, a longstanding critic of the project, come amid broad concern over developments at The DAO, a smart contract-based funding vehicle built with ethereum that has effectively collapsed following an exploit of a vulnerability within its smart contract code. Sirer warned that, while the vulnerability that led to the removal of tens of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency ether is now well-understood, much....