Coinomi Vulnerability Discovered, Developers React Harshly

[Mark Mason]

Coinomi Vulnerability Discovered, Developers React Harshly

A privacy-related vulnerability was discovered in the Coinomi wallet, which provoked a hostile reaction from its developers.

Coinomi is a multi-coin wallet long trusted as one of the most reliable, secure, and easy to use. Recently, however, a vulnerability was discovered that could potentially affect users’ privacy. Initially discovered earlier this month by Luke Childs, the wallet apparently connects to Electrum servers unencrypted without SSL. Childs brought this issue up on GitHub:

Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/coinomi-vulnerability-discovered-developers-react-harshly/

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[jimbursch]

@thedesertlynx - you could have also mentioned that Dash has a bug bounty program that would have rewarded the reporting of a bug like that Coinomi wallet bug. If the such a bug was in Dash Core, we probably would have paid at least $1,000 for the report.

I am planning to add the DashPay wallet to the bounty program, so any issues would be handled very differently than Coinomi.

The Dash Bug Bounty program is open to the public here:
https://bugcrowd.com/dashdigitalcash