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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by digianarchist on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:27PM (#30265742)
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.

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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by raducu on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:11AM (#30270602)
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.
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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by herodoturtle on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @05:04AM (#30270932)
Take it easy Andy Dufrense
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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by digianarchist on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:26AM (#30282750)
The idea is this would survive a search and potential jail term.
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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by vmchale on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:01PM (#30267219)
maybe he backed up to icloud by accident
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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by bandrami on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:35AM (#30269271)
This. It's harder than you may think to leave zero cloud trail of your activity and storage.
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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by radicaldreamer on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @03:01AM (#30270143)
I bet he just got opted into iCloud Drive documents and desktop folders.
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