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The 5$ wrench is just a simple example of social engineering. No amount of cryptography will help you if the guy holding the keys can be talked/pressured into h
by josefx 3y ago
The 5$ wrench is just a simple example of social engineering. No amount of cryptography will help you if the guy holding the keys can be talked/pressured into handing them over.
https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
- feoren 3y agoI wouldn't say all social engineering is a $5 wrench attack. A $5 wrench attack is having physical access to the person and using physical means (handcuffs, prison cells, guns) to convince them to comply.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoYou’re taking it way too literally. The joke is that all this fancy-pants cryptography is meaningless when the nerds that employ it will mess their britches at the first whiff of real consequence.
- acdha 3y agoI’d also add that a lot of the rhetoric in the cryptocurrency world is based on this very board game-y mentality where it’s like a contest to set the rules up so you win, which completely misses that in the real-world people just choose not to follow your preferred rules. No police force says “oh, you have impregnable cryptography and a 42 character password, well, we only have one prisoner slot so you can go free now”.