Often times this language is used to drum up funding for exactly these types of things.
Comment on Authorities hack cryptocurrency seed phrase
xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 year ago
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
“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 year ago
They have guys that point guns at your face. This is their version of hacking.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Drunemeton@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah, the ol’ “Brute Force” hack.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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