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'Ethereum leadership' did a rollback once, so there is zero reasons to believe they won't do this again if this will be in their interests. You see, 'code is a contract', but then it isn't.

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In “their” interest, as in, in the interest of thousands of people that got rug pulled because of a hack

Code is law ... until it doesn't suit my interest.

I think he’s talking about the DAO situation which was not a hack, the contract executed exactly as it was written. But it was also a long time ago.

All hacks are code executing exactly as it was written.

Not necessarily, a large class of exploit has to do with manipulating the call stack.

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