Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by DyslexicAtheist on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:50PM
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> I just find it strange that people with the skills
people in Tech will yak-shave choosing the "correct" cypher. Then get pwned by an implementation detail like a bug in enigmail.
1) Hacking, 2) opsec and 3) tradecraft are totally different skills. The most dangerous people (to themselves) are the ones who cover only one of 3. The more advanced among them _know_ they lack in the other areas, but think they can compensate going even deeper on whatever they already know.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by pizzalife on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @07:48PM
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Anakata (guy who founded the pirate bay) hacked a bank and he is definitely some kind of genius. His idea for getting money out of the bank was to enlist a teenage thug to go to the ATM and withdraw money, which he had sent to the guy's account. Smart people do stupid shit all the time.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by digianarchist on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:27PM
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Honestly don’t know why people don’t AES/GPG encrypt the keys and send a message to alt.anonymous.messages.
That’s 30+ years of storage for free.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by raducu on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:11AM
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Why couldn't they just use a brain wallet on an offline device with no internal storage.
Keep a hand written copy of the generated passphrase laminated in some plastic in some fake plaster rock under a tree in a wood or something.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by herodoturtle on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @05:04AM
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Take it easy Andy Dufrense
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by digianarchist on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:26AM
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The idea is this would survive a search and potential jail term.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by vmchale on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:01PM
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maybe he backed up to icloud by accident
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by bandrami on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:35AM
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This. It's harder than you may think to leave zero cloud trail of your activity and storage.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by radicaldreamer on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @03:01AM
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I bet he just got opted into iCloud Drive documents and desktop folders.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by SirYandi on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:07PM
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The article mentioned they were not thought to have conducted the hack itself.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by GekkePrutser on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:12PM
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Ah ok sorry I checked the comments only. Should have read TFA sorry :)
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:32AM
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That's just author's speculation. Most probably he did conduct the hack himself, because he had private keys to all the original withdrawal addresses.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by paulpauper on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:46PM
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But the report does not state that they actually did it, only laundered it. it may have been someone else
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
by wolverine876 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:13PM
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People are sometimes too busy to deal with the many details of 'perfect' opsec. In other circumstances, they hire a professional to handle it for them, but that is more difficult for criminals.
Ps not condoning the theft but I just find it strange that people with the skills to steal this much get caught using bog standard cloud storage. You'd think they could afford something better ;) Something along the lines of "you don't take notes on a criminal f** conspiracy" :)