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Re:Australian drug raid officers seize $350,000 in Cryptocur... by paulpauper on Friday June 08, 2018 @03:33PM (#17268955)
they must have been dumb to keep the only copy of the keys on a hard drive. should have committed the 12 words to memory or put it on an encrypted google drive or something
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Re:Australian drug raid officers seize $350,000 in Cryptocur... by JumpCrisscross on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:02PM (#17269217)
> should have committed the 12 words to memory or put it on an encrypted google drive

This is a stupid strategy to rely on if you've just been arrested.

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Re:Australian drug raid officers seize $350,000 in Cryptocur... by pwagland on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:44PM (#17269528)
That's a good guess at the passphrase… but it's thirteen words not twelve :-)
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Re:Australian drug raid officers seize $350,000 in Cryptocur... by whoopDerpHurr on Friday June 08, 2018 @07:04PM (#17270436)
13?

https://brainwallet.io?12#random

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Re:Australian drug raid officers seize $350,000 in Cryptocur... by idfoinbvc on Friday June 08, 2018 @05:55PM (#17270053)
Didn't even have full disk encryption? Or if they did, how was it compromised?
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