As Bitcoin Prices Swing, Millionaires Lose Sleep over Lost Keys
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#3My nightmare when setting macOS FileVault to self-erase after 10 password attempts:
> Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, has two guesses left to figure out a password that is worth, as of this week, about $220 million.
> The password will let him unlock a small hard drive, known as an IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 Bitcoin. While the price of Bitcoin dropped sharply on Monday, it is still up more than 50 percent from just a month ago when it passed its previous all-time high around $20,000.
> The problem is that Mr. Thomas years ago lost the paper where he wrote down the password for his IronKey, which gives users 10 guesses before it seizes up and encrypts its contents forever. He has since tried eight of his most commonly used password formulations — to no avail.
> “I would just lay in bed and think about it,” Mr. Thomas said. “Then I would go to the computer with some new strategy, and it wouldn’t work, and I would be desperate again.”
Re: As Bitcoin Prices Swing, Millionaires Lose Sleep over Lost Keys
#4Cool so now there's a ~$220M (x standard finder's fee %) bounty on cracking IronKey
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#5Reminds of Russ Hanneman in Silicon Valley, digging around in the landfill:
"All the coin I had from the ICO that worked was on a USB thumb drive!
And my dumb fucking housekeeper threw out my jeans,
cause they were ripped. Even though I paid more for the ripped ones.
And the thumb drive was in the pocket, so.
$300 million in crypto is buried out here, somewhere.
But my boys will find it."
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#6Cool so now there's a ~$220M (x standard finder's fee %) bounty on cracking IronKey
Whole thing might be submarine marketing.
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#7My nightmare when setting macOS FileVault to self-erase after 10 password attempts: > Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, has two guesses left to figure out a password that is worth, as of this week, about $220 million. > The password will let him unlock a small hard drive, known as an IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 Bitcoin. While the price o…
I know nothing about this tech but could you copy a whole drive bit by bit onto another drive and keep the original while “using up” attempts on a donor drive?
Re: As Bitcoin Prices Swing, Millionaires Lose Sleep over Lost Keys
#8My nightmare when setting macOS FileVault to self-erase after 10 password attempts: > Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, has two guesses left to figure out a password that is worth, as of this week, about $220 million. > The password will let him unlock a small hard drive, known as an IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 Bitcoin. While the price o…
I know nothing about this tech but could you copy a whole drive bit by bit onto another drive and keep the original while “using up” attempts on a donor drive?
If I'm not mistaken, the newer macs with the T1/T2 security chip ties the drive to the chip-- i.e. the drive cannot be decrypted without that exact T1/T2 chip hardware key (and possibly also the SSD key). Even if it's possible to duplicate the drive, I don't believe it's possible to decrypt it.
Anyone feel free to confirm or correct me.