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Some of these encrypted hard drive devices are weirdly secure. However, I can't see any harm in offering a bug bounty of 1/4th of the stash, putting up the mod

• filmgirlcw 4y ago
  I think you’d probably need a team that could clone the drive first and then you could do your attempts. From what I understand, that’s difficult here because of the encrypted flash drive he used (tho obviously not impossible). I’m sure someone like Cellebrite or the other agencies that have done iPhone hacking could do something like this — or at least figure out how to clone the drive to do multiple attempts at getting into it - but I don’t know how many places would do it on someone’s word that the crypto is there. Like, yeah, for 25%, I bet you could find people who could get it done. But I don’t know how many of those people who would undertake that work on a promise. What if it’s like Al Capone’s vault [1] and turns up empty? [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone%27s_Vaults https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone%27s...
  • jmount 4y ago
    I think the comment above is: "show me cracking a similar drive with nothing on it" as a capabilities test.
• maerF0x0 4y ago
  if they could crack it for 1/4, why would they give him any of it? "Sorry, we couldn't crack it, bye"
  • pclmulqdq 4y ago
    They demonstrate that they can crack it on a replica drive of the same model, then do the work in front of him to extract the private key. And if the bitcoins somehow move after they "fail" (remember, the blockchain is public), he knows who to sue.