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	Podcast:		The Hacker Mind
	Episode:		EP 40: Hacking Ethereum Smart Contracts
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		01:03:38
	Publish Date:		2022-02-16 00:42:20
	Description:		How do you stop a half billion dollars in cryptocurrency from being stolen? You perform software testing and responsibly disclose it first, of course. Yannis Smaragdakis, a researcher with Dedaub, found a major vulnerability in Ethereum smart contracts, arguably within the billion-dollar range, that would have made it one of the largest hacks ever—given that it was a theoretically unbounded threat -- had it not been mostly mitigated by the time it went public. In this episode he steps us though how he discovered the Phantom Function and other vulnerabilities within Ethereum.
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