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I think the "hacker" is going to have a massive fraud lawsuit on their hands against the DAO. Combine that with bad faith arguments for punitive damages and they can probably wipe out the entire organization.



I think a real world judge would not need to take into account how smart contracts work at all (a contract without a hand-written signature???) and blame both sides:

@Organization: How could you promise people to handle their money without any audits?

@Hacker: You don't get to keep the money you managed to siphon out the hands of these irresponsible people.


"hacker": My transaction was valid and executed per the organization contract. Others then conspired to invalidate the transaction. Now, my transaction is dead.


"hacker", yes, I forgot the quotes.

The question remains whether the organization contract is acknowledged by a court.




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