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> Had this been an impactful attack, we would not be this flippant about it. For this, though, any other tone on our part would be false.

> ...

> If you were inclined to take us up on an “airdrop” to “claim a share” of the “token” powering Fly.io, the site is still up. You can connect your wallet it [sic] it! You’ll lose all your money. But if we’d actually done an ICO, you’d have lost all your money anyways.

> Somebody involved in pulling this attack off had to come up with “own a piece of the sky!”, and I think that’s punishment enough for them.

I was amused by all of this, but I still feel like they should care more about how impactful this was for anyone who got crypto-scammed at the link. I mean, yes, those are people who would believe the story and also click a link like that. But what if fly.io were found to share liability?



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