Sounds like laying the groundwork for a disinfo campaign when Chinese miners fork to a larger max blocksize. Sowing the seeds now to favor an adversarial mindset when it comes to plans coming from China.
Stop trolling.
Nah, Im probably just wish thinking
More likely that cobra is just acting like a petty tyrant again, similar to the last time he showed up, wanting to edit satoshis whitepaper.
There's nothing tyrannic about this nor his suggestion to add an updated version of the whitepaper.
Also Lauda your the CEO of BTCE arnt you?
I may or may not be. Please refrain from creating consecutive posts.
Can you explain this MIM attack more precisely, are you saying that data will be forged for a long time, would they need to attack both sender and receiver at the same time
A simple Google search would give you the required information (changing data in between the two of them).
is this attack going after transactions or miners confirming transactions, and what kinds of alerts will be prompted if the Binaries aren't correct,
No alert will be prompted, that's the problem.
Is the attacking of the binaries a new angle to take control of the network, or just a attempt to steal a bunch of coins and to discredit the security of a decentralized network? If this succeeded, we would have been in serious problems.
Generally, it is unfortunate that only a handful of people compile and build their own binaries (which is recommended).