How I Stole a User's Siacoin • Hacker News Board

Re: How I Stole a User's Siacoin

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Post by markc » Sat, Jun 17, 2017, 3:50 PM UTC

jancsika wrote: post #16

So what are both "ionic" and "tonic" in the same dictionary for a human readable entropy library?

I've used PGP Words - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list - "which are carefully chosen for their phonetic distinctiveness". There is also a "parity" feature to catch simple errors.

My application was pass phrases to be read over the phone, but it seems generally useful whenever you want to avoid confusing two words in the set.

Re: How I Stole a User's Siacoin

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Post by feelix » Sat, Jun 17, 2017, 11:41 PM UTC

bubbabojangles wrote: post #64

feelix wrote: post #63

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do you have any spinning disks around that once may have had the unencrypted keys on it? I could modify the commercial data recovery software I wrote ( https://macosxfilerecovery.com/ ) to scan your drive for the private keys

Thanks for the offer, I kept the drive I stored the TrueCrypt container on. I think it was like a bad drive arm or PCB. I'd considered paying for a service to move the platters to a good drive, but at the time the service cost more then Bitcoin worth and there was no guarantee of recovery. I ended up throwing the drive away (another dumb move). Never in my wildest dreams did I think it would increase in value like it…

That's alright. I see a lot of these posts saying "the bitcoin I lost would be worth $X Million dollars now", but the thing that people overlook is that it would not be worth that now, because they would have sold it a lot earlier if they had access to it. Many people would sell the moment it's all worth about $20k depending on a few factors. In almost no cases is is it truly a million or multi million dollar loss.

Re: How I Stole a User's Siacoin

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Post by illumin8 » Tue, Jun 20, 2017, 9:15 PM UTC

zuck9 wrote: post #70

illumin8 wrote: post #31

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My brother accidentally deleted his wallet.dat from Dropbox a few years ago - he had given it a random filename and encrypted it with GPG so it was unrecognizable to hackers (and apparently him as well). It had 1,000 BTC in it! He had received them from a generous Bitcoin contributor in the early days who said "here you go, hold on to it, it will be worth something someday." I still give him a hard time about his $3…

Generous bitcoin contributor may be thinking that he made a wrong choice of giving away.

He probably has several times that amount...