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Post 302531773 by KenJackson on Friday 17th of June 2011 09:37:44 PM
06-17-2011
You have a smiley there, and you're almost quoting one of those articles, but I hope you're not saying that tongue in cheek. There's some wisdom in your words. If bitcoins had no value, why would someone go to the effort of targeting them?
In fact, if I had thought it through, I should have been suspicious of them if no one was bothering to try to steal them. And, hey, no security is perfect, so there will be some thefts. The victim was storing them on Windows, for crying out loud!
Also, the possibility that someone had half a million dollars in bitcoins says an awful lot.
In fact, I'm starting to get more interested.
As for security there's almost a separate, more general, issue here. The second story you referenced said this:
There are two very instructive things in that sentence about security in general:The lessons, if not obvious, are
In fact, if I had thought it through, I should have been suspicious of them if no one was bothering to try to steal them. And, hey, no security is perfect, so there will be some thefts. The victim was storing them on Windows, for crying out loud!
Also, the possibility that someone had half a million dollars in bitcoins says an awful lot.
In fact, I'm starting to get more interested.
As for security there's almost a separate, more general, issue here. The second story you referenced said this:
Quote:
The malware, Infostealer.Coinbit, is fairly simple: it targets Windows machines and zeroes in on the standard file location for a Bitcoin wallet.
- It targets Windows machines, and
- It looks for people doing things the standard way.
- Don't use Windows (especially to protect your savings), and
- Don't accept defaults or do things in predictable, standard ways.
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NUMFMT_FORMAT_CURRENCY(3) 1 NUMFMT_FORMAT_CURRENCY(3) NumberFormatter::formatCurrency - Format a currency value Object oriented style SYNOPSIS
public string NumberFormatter::formatCurrency (float $value, string $currency) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style string numfmt_format_currency (NumberFormatter $fmt, float $value, string $currency) Format the currency value according to the formatter rules. PARAMETERS
o $fmt -NumberFormatter object. o $value - The numeric currency value. o $currency - The 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code indicating the currency to use. RETURN VALUES
String representing the formatted currency value. EXAMPLES
Example #1 numfmt_format_currency(3) example <?php $fmt = numfmt_create( 'de_DE', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY ); echo numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000, "EUR")." "; echo numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000, "RUR")." "; $fmt = numfmt_create( 'ru_RU', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY ); echo numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000, "EUR")." "; echo numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000, "RUR")." "; ?> Example #2 OO example <?php $fmt = new NumberFormatter( 'de_DE', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY ); echo $fmt->formatCurrency(1234567.891234567890000, "EUR")." "; echo $fmt->formatCurrency(1234567.891234567890000, "RUR")." "; $fmt = new NumberFormatter( 'ru_RU', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY ); echo $fmt->formatCurrency(1234567.891234567890000, "EUR")." "; echo $fmt->formatCurrency(1234567.891234567890000, "RUR")." "; ?> The above example will output: 1.234.567,89 EUR 1.234.567,89 RUR 1 234 567,89EUR 1 234 567,89. SEE ALSO
numfmt_get_error_code(3), numfmt_format(3), numfmt_parse_currency(3). PHP Documentation Group NUMFMT_FORMAT_CURRENCY(3)