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Re:Man has two more chances before $232M in Bitcoin is lost ... by netsharc on Sunday March 05, 2023 @07:55PM (#35036161)
The drive's firmware could be preventing that from happening: https://www.trentonsystems.com/blog/self-encrypting-drives

Although I don't think they have the auto-destruct feature.

But with 200M+ at stake, I'd put out a bounty for someone to reverse engineer the firmware.

Edit: sibling commenter says it's IronKey, reading about it, reverse engineering won't be that trivial...

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Re:Man has two more chances before $232M in Bitcoin is lost ... by filmgirlcw on Sunday March 05, 2023 @08:38PM (#35036484)
It wouldn’t be. You’d think for a $50m or even $100m bounty, you could get people who hoard 0-days like Cellebrite to do it. I don’t know.

If it were me, I would easily give up half of it to get the money back.

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