Fundamental flaws in the DAO's code let hackers move one third of its total funds to a subsidiary account, and that hack together with further technological limitations destroyed the DAO initiative.
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Alas, things went terribly wrong with the DAO. Fundamental flaws in the DAO code enabled hackers to transfer one-third of the total funds to a subsidiary account.92 This hack in combination with additional technological limitations brought down the DAO initiative.
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Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017), III.4. Limitations, p. 33 https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127 · source PDF
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Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127
restated_bykaal:claim:3373393-030 Fundamental flaws in the DAO code enabled hackers to transfer one third of total funds to a subsidiary account...
restateskaal:claim:2922176-035 Fundamental flaws in the DAO's code allowed hackers to move one third of contributed funds to a subsidiary acc...
extended_bykaal:claim:2998033-007 The DAO failed because of fundamental flaws in its own code, which allowed hackers to move one third of its fu...
extended_bykaal:claim:3227933-035 Fundamental flaws in the DAO's code allowed hackers to transfer one third of the total contributed funds to a ...
restated_bykaal:claim:3071378-012 The DAO failed because its code had not yet been perfected: hackers took a third of the DAO tokens and transfe...
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