Quote from: jedunnigan on September 15, 2013, 09:30:35 PM

Guys, keep the conversation on point.

JRam did you withdraw bitcoins recently?

When I pumped BTCs into my account, my intention was to day trade. And I was day trading fairly well up to this point. I never had the need to withdraw any funds from my Mt. Gox account.

Quote from: ArticMine on September 15, 2013, 09:19:57 PM

Quote from: chriswilmer on September 15, 2013, 09:01:59 PM

Quote from: casascius on September 15, 2013, 02:24:54 PM

I am extremely shocked that MtGox does not have one simple security feature that I have asked for more than a year ago (when I still was willing to do business with MtGox):

Allow users to lock withdrawals to a single bitcoin address

And allow changes only with a signed message (PGP or a signed message from the current address) EDIT: or (per another suggestion in this thread) after waiting out a lockout period long enough for the real account owner to contest a request initiated by a hacker

This would virtually eliminate ALL the theft without ANY groundbreaking innovation (other than a small modicum of easily acquired common sense)

There might still be theft if the person gets their wallet stolen, but that's a burden that sits squarely on the user, and moves the risk completely out of MtGox's sphere of concern.

+21000000

-21000000 MSFT shares

It will not solve the problem if the Bitcoin address is in a wallet that is in a compromised Microsoft Windows computer. One must keep in mind that is the theft is caused by malware on the user's computer in the first place. How is locking the account to a Bitcoin address on the same infected computer going to solve the problem? It only serves to create a false sense of security for the user.

If this was really malware on my PC, the logs would not show the Chinese ip address of 60.166.242.186 accessing my account. After all, wouldn't it be more legitimate to simply use my own ip address to access my account?

The notion that I just 'sat' on my Yubikey sent to me by Mt. Gox is just silly. I had no other use for this piece of junk. I wish I had the wisdom to save some of the images I posted so I could use it to catch Mt. Gox on an inconsistently later but I think this is the end of the line for me on bitcoins. Now that I can't trust the largest BTC exchange, I think I'm done here. Although this might sound harsh to some, I won't be trying any other alternative cryptocurrencies since I see bitcoin as the gold standard. If I can't invest in bitcoins, I definitely can't invest in other alternatives.

Thanks for anyone that helped and believed in my case. I will be pursuing this case a bit further with my local police department but that will be it.

JRam

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