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Wow. Such hacking prowess. Such bad opsec. Weird. Ps not condoning the theft but I just find it strange that people with the skills to steal this much get caug
by GekkePrutser 5y ago
Wow. Such hacking prowess. Such bad opsec. Weird.
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" :)
- wolverine876 5y agoPeople 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.
- SirYandi 5y agoThe article mentioned they were not thought to have conducted the hack itself.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoAh ok sorry I checked the comments only. Should have read TFA sorry :)
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y agoThat's just author's speculation. Most probably he did conduct the hack himself, because he had private keys to all the original withdrawal addresses.
- digianarchist 5y agoHonestly 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.
- vmchale 5y agomaybe he backed up to icloud by accident
- bandrami 5y agoThis. It's harder than you may think to leave zero cloud trail of your activity and storage.
- radicaldreamer 5y agoI bet he just got opted into iCloud Drive documents and desktop folders.
- raducu 5y agoWhy 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.
- herodoturtle 5y agoTake it easy Andy Dufrense
- digianarchist 5y agoThe idea is this would survive a search and potential jail term.
- DyslexicAtheist 5y ago> 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.
- pizzalife 5y agoAnakata (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.
- paulpauper 5y agoBut the report does not state that they actually did it, only laundered it. it may have been someone else
- ccalloway 5y agoWe only know about the ones that get caught.