Quote from: Liquid71 on August 22, 2014, 03:56:12 PM

Quote from: smooth on August 22, 2014, 11:34:44 AM

Quote from: Hexah on August 22, 2014, 09:56:02 AM

CryptoNote team has published official statement yesterday https://cryptonote.org/news/archive

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Moreover, the CryptoNote website has recently been exposed to illegal access by malicious users, which is absolutely unacceptable. Some data stored on cryptonote.org have been vandalized and is now temporary unavailable until the internal investigation is completed.

The "we got hacked" defense. Wow, that will totally work!

If not come up with a credible reason somebody would create a fraudulent whitepaper for the clearnet cryptonote website.

Then you are pretty slow. The motivation is obvious.

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I seriously would like to hear one, I can't think of one. I thought the "we were hacked" defense was bs too, but how else do you explain somebody going through the trouble of creating a fake whitepaper?

It was explained by the OP. Go read it.

Nothing posted since has added significantly to the original findings, nor detracted from them. It is all unverifiable and most likely fabricated. If not, then I ask them again to produce verifiable dated signatures, credible independent third party sources, or other such evidence. They likely can't and won't, and this has been my view, vocally, since several months back on the BCN thread before XMR even existed. This has nothing to do with XMR and your attempt to paint is as some sort of XMR strategy is mistaken and pointless.

The original findings are and the inferred motivation behind them are still the most credible explanation in my view.