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Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes

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Re: Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes

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Post by Ferret7446 »

tjoff wrote: post #42
Sayrus wrote: post #4

> When a community member inquired about how long it took for the funds to be drained, the Web3 founder responded that it took just two minutes for someone to withdraw the funds. The public events API is delayed by 5 minutes[1]. Unless someone was actively scraping his profile rather than doing large scans on GitHub, this is not possible. [1] https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/events?apiVersion=2...

Note he didn't commit his keys by mistake, but rather made a private repo public. Don't know if that makes a difference.

Committing keys is a mistake.

Re: Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes

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Post by tjoff »

Ferret7446 wrote: post #81
tjoff wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note he didn't commit his keys by mistake, but rather made a private repo public. Don't know if that makes a difference.

Committing keys is a mistake.

In my mind yes, but he seems to have done it on purpose. At least he was aware of it.

Re: Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes

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Post by chx »

pixxel wrote: post #73
chx wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fundamental benefit of crypto is to enrich those who collect transaction fees. There's nothing else.

I thought the fundamental benefit was giving certain HN commenters something to whine about, constantly.

Someone needs to keep the ember of sanity burning in this vast darkness

Re: Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes

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Re: Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes

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