Pretty soon attacks like these (Religiously-motivated muslim terrorists killing large numbers of innocent people) will be happening every week or even every day, I fear.
Just last week I was having what I thought was a fanciful conversation with a friend about exactly this. I'm amazed to see this materialise and very interested to see how the regulation process is handled.
If BTC is trading higher than $1, everybody would buy the undervalued BTC for $1 and sell at the market rate.
If BTC is trading lower than $1, everybody would buy BTC at market rate and sell the overvalued BTC for $1.
Both cases lead to significant losses for whoever is trying to peg BTC to some arbitrary constant value.
It's not really useful in defending this point because the threat doesn't scale.
The NSA can't hire enough heavies to break fingers of every person sending and receiving encrypted data (assuming they could even find the people sending and receiving it without first decrypting).
Gulp. I'm guilty of this. An iOS component I shared became quite popular.
Now I don't even do iOS development anymore, Xcode is out of date, I haven't even used ARC. Whenever people poke me, saying that the issues and PRs are piling up, I tell them my situation and ask what they suggest I do. Surprisingly, my responses get no response.
Perhaps I should just add some of the past contributors to the commit access list.
There's Baikal Server[1], which is a pretty neat project that allows you to host and manage several CalDAV and CardDAV accounts on a server. Have been running it for nearly two months with absolutely no issue.
Nobody's pulling the rug out from under me. Except me.