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Would this happen if his wallet was a hardware wallet like a ledger or trezor?
If true this is absolutely devastating. Somewhat funny too, but devastating.
edit: Well, it's confirmed. Insane.
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Speaking of paranoid, that link you've posted, isn't that a link to a server that's known to be compromised, and also an apparent watering hole for crypto wallet holders? Am I unreasonable in thinking that's a very scary link?
1. Disable JavaScript. 2. Access (almost) any website in the internet 3. ????? 4. Profit edit: Mastodon doesn't work without JavaScript, holy hell. We truly are living in a dystopia. Thankfully you can still access his profile from another trusted instance such as mastodon.social at https://mastodon.social/@lukedashjr@bitcoinhackers.org
I'm electing to add new URL regexps to my uBlock filters, to reduce the risk of accidentally clicking a link similar to this. I don't think I want to visit any web domain that caters to people who hold crypto wallets.
/.*coin.*/
/.*crypto.*/
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Say your wife is a well known Bitcoin billionaire. And your wife bought something from my eBay store. Now I have your home address. And if I am a ruthless character then I quietly break into your house one day with th3e objective of leaving no sign I was ever there. Search for written down passwords, take a photo, leave.
Okay, so assuming you get past this theoretical billionaire's physical security (at a minimum gated fences and an alarm system; if they're actually a billionaire, probably 24/7 armed private security as well) and into their mansion, how long do you think it would take you to search their 7 bedroom 10000 square foot mansion for these written down passwords which you have no information as to whether they even exist?
he would have been more secure having it at coinbase…
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Experts make mistakes all the time, fail to see hidden risks, like Challenger explosion. This will never see mainstream adoption at this rate. If the hacker is smarter, being smart is not good enough.
This is not quite the same. Experts did make mistakes for the challenger explosion, but they did much better than the average person. Put 1000 people at complete random into a room and say design and build a rocket, I suspect they won't even get to the build phase after several years. When it comes to something everyone should be able to do, an expert making a mistake is a bad omen for the rest of us.
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How on earth are normal people supposed to trust bit coin. When best practice is to treat it like paper money.
If BTC is $1/coin , it is fine to not be paranoid. $16,000+ changes the game completely.
Just for a little context luke jr was infamous on cryptocurrency forums for being adamant that the sun revolved around the earth, all religions other than catholicism are evil, there is an "ethical aspect to slavery" and that bitcoin's 1 KB/s throughput was too much and should be cut down even further. https://archive.is/sS5Ml https://archive.is/DrP83 https://np.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/36w6nw/why_did... ht…
https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4936kw/lukejr_is_...
Apparently his servers keep getting hacked, which doesn’t reflect well on his security practices: https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1606885577843957762
Assuming this physical access claim is truthful (and i have doubts), I would feel at this point its budget letting him down. If your threat model includes "targeted attacks from people with physical access", it's time to run a vm on aws or azure and use the tooling they make available to secure it further. If you want tonnes of resourcing at a quite low budget, there's only a certain amount of "calling out" the group…