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Haha! Evidently a complete lack of security or worth judgement. "$300/mo for a rack is expensive" (no, no it isn't) "Someone booted an unknown OS from externa
by throwaway67743 4y ago
Haha!
Evidently a complete lack of security or worth judgement.
"$300/mo for a rack is expensive" (no, no it isn't)
"Someone booted an unknown OS from external media" (no FDE)
Machine compromised on the "17th of november* and instead of considering everything compromised, the guy continued using it evidently.
Zero sympathy whatsoever, if you can't manage the basics you certainly shouldn't be running it yourself, and definitely shouldn't be "core" developer on projects that require at least some security clue
(Also religious nutjob, as referenced in another thread)
- bartimus 4y agoI still don't entirely get what has happened. So he runs a bitcoin node on a compromised machine. But why would he store (or use) his 200+ BTC private keys there? He also mentions: > No, they got my cold wallet too somehow How can that happen?
- throwaway67743 4y agoAfter reading some of the (many many) replies to tweets, it seems the story is pretty much what I summed it up as: he got compromised and failed security 101 They likely used the access they had to further infect or snaffle credentials etc - a very simple and obvious one is reverse SSH tunnels for example
- imperialdrive 4y agoHe's actually pretty clever for claiming to 'lose' the BTC... does that mean no taxes to pay?
- throwaway67743 4y agoHadn't considered that as I still don't believe anyone bothers declaring and paying tax on it - not always deliberately but because most people are uninformed stupids about pretty much everything