darkhttpd-1.16-1.fc39

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FEDORA-2024-d638b9a34c

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darkhttpd-1.16-1.fc39

Update description:

Update to 1.16 fixes rhbz#2259096

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Criminal Gang Physically Assaulting People for Their Cryptocurrency

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This is pretty horrific:

…a group of men behind a violent crime spree designed to compel victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency savings. That announcement and the criminal complaint laying out charges against St. Felix focused largely on a single theft of cryptocurrency from an elderly North Carolina couple, whose home St. Felix and one of his accomplices broke into before physically assaulting the two victims—­both in their seventies—­and forcing them to transfer more than $150,000 in Bitcoin and Ether to the thieves’ crypto wallets.

I think cryptocurrencies are more susceptible to this kind of real-world attack because they are largely outside the conventional banking system. Yet another reason to stay away from them.

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