Comment on Authorities hack cryptocurrency seed phrase
xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I highly doubt they did anything remotely like “hacking” the seed phrase. I don’t care for cryptocurrency, but I hate cop bullshit even more, so here’s my 2 cents.
or just found it written somewhere in the house?
this one.
A seed phrase is just an encoding of a long binary number which can be used to derive the secret key. Trying all the possibilities probably isn’t possible, and I think it’s also unlikely that they found a way to weaken it. What they probably did is find it and type it in. They DID raid the dude’s house, where he was probably keeping a copy of it.
The shopping list on the suspect’s fridge apparently required
Our technician called Coles and Woolies, who confirm these are not regular grocery items, and then he had a lightbulb moment: Beat the suspect with an extension cord until he gave up the seed phrase
I wrote a script to generate seed phrases and look up if that derived into a key with any value. Then did the maths on how impossible that is and decided to stop.
I mean if someone comes into your house with a clipboard and safety vest and a gun your probably going to let them do what they need if you can’t fight them off.
Often times this language is used to drum up funding for exactly these types of things.
“Twenty or thirty years ago, police did not hack
Can confirm this is totally untrue. None of my in-laws would say either way, but for sure they wouldn’t NOT say either way, if that makes sense.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They have guys that point guns at your face. This is their version of hacking.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 month ago
xkcd.com/538/
Drunemeton@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah, the ol’ “Brute Force” hack.