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Re:North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypt... by jmyeet on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:50PM (#50487102)
This is a real "thoughts and prayers" type situation because I basically have zero sympathy for those affected by this. There's really no reason for crypto to exist. You're kind of on your own. I view reversible transactions and the like as a feature not a bug. Every one of these crypto thefts is the fruit of irreversible transactions that crypto advocates wanted.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Don't get me wrong: I love reading about the ingenuity involved in these hacks. Keep em coming. The Ledger chip hack was particularly impressive from a technical POV.

Re:North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypt... by MOARDONGZPLZ on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:14PM (#50487467)
You’ll get downvoted, but I’m totally with you. Very interesting write ups and lots of ingenuity in the hack, very/completely unsympathetic targets of the hack.
Re:North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypt... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:44PM (#50487913)
The problem with this kind of thinking of "they deserve it because they engage in something I find wrong" is that almost everyone does at least one thing that one group or another considers "wrong" in some way: Eating meat, using AI, flying, taking cruise ships, driving a car, eating pork, drinking alcohol, smoking, being too tolerant or not tolerant enough towards someone or something, dressing wrong, working in the wrong industry, supporting the wrong political party, ...
Re:North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypt... by sandworm101 on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:22PM (#50487586)
Fools and there money, but I do not like the idea of North Korea illegally gathering money in any form. While I don't care whether cryptobros loose money, I don't want to see that money go to such a regime.
Re:North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypt... by mrb on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:33PM (#50487766)
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Re:North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypt... by ion_trapper on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:50PM (#50488756)
I’m mildly pro-crypto but I also believe that FBI shouldn’t be getting invovled in recovering “stolen” crypto. If you lose your keys, whether by incompetence or a scam, that’s that. Whoever has the keys owns the crypto. Trying to impose government-sanctioned concepts of ownership or theft beyond this is defeating the purpose.
Re:North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypt... by robotnikman on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:36PM (#50489289)
Crypto now exists to solely to fund Kim Jong Un's regime

/s (kinda)