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So let's flip it: how long will it stay that way: where law enforcement is unaware they've left ostensibly seized assets unsecured?

• denkmoon 4y ago
  that goes right back to OPs point. If LEO are leaving these "seized" assets unsecured, they are simply not qualified to be doing what they are doing. To directly answer your question, forever. Policing is sufficiently distributed and poor at retaining or integrating new knowledge that I am sure we will see these amateur-hour mistakes being made for as long as crypto exists in its current form. Modern policing has not changed much since its inception with the Met Police and Robert Peel.
  • cantSpellSober 4y ago
    > forever Good! Nothing to worry about then? Our coins are forever un-seizeable? Robert Peel? Nuance please.
    • TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
      FBI hires external consultants (“experts”) when there is $311 million at stake. In this case I’m sure they hired at least one crypto expert. In other words, they don’t need to understand private keys, pins, and passphrases in detail in order to be effective.
      • cantSpellSober 4y ago
        But I was told "we will see these amateur-hour mistakes being made for as long as crypto exists in its current form," it sounds like the "crypto experts" they're hiring make that false. My coins are seizeable after all!
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