[Bitcoin-development] Update alert false positives

Oliver Egginger bitcoin at olivere.de
Sat Apr 19 21:34:23 UTC 2014


Hello,

bitcoin-qt produces on many systems an unnecessary alert:

"URGENT: Upgrade required: see https://www.bitcoin.org/heartbleed"

Especially the stable channel is affected:

https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin

This is a bit frightening for normal users. I think the best would be to
turn off this message (if possible). It produces too many false
positives and motivates people to maybe harmful workarounds.

- oliver




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