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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet

www.wired.com

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How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet

www.wired.com

jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.
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    To be clear, this is a flaw in RoboForm

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      “Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager”

      Yes, cheers for that.

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      I mean, they say it was fixed shortly after he made his password. It was a flaw until 2015

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    Password generator used the date/time to create the password. It was fixed a long time ago.

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    A $3 Million Crypto Wallet… A $2 Million Crypto Wallet… A $5.5 Million Crypto Wallet…
    (This joke probably doesn’t work anymore, but I still think it’s funny.)

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    I tried to tell them it was: “Password123”.

    They scoffed at me and never tried it.

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    Pay wall 🖕

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      • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
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        And on Android?

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          I’m android. I get a view button that skips the paywall.

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          Reader mode works on Android too. Firefox has it at least.

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      12ft.io works for Wired. Here’s a link.

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      Whenever I hit paywalled articles, I have Gemini summarize it for me. Here’s what I got:

      This is an article about a flaw in a password manager. It discusses a man named Michael who lost access to his bitcoin wallet. The password manager he used generated a weak password. Researchers were able to crack the password because of this weakness. They used the date and time the password was created to guess it. Michael was able to recover his bitcoin wallet.

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        Archive.today is way more energy-efficient and actually gives you the article details

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          Good call. For the commenter above: https://archive.ph/nVy4s

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      Just use an archive service lol

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    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o5IySpAkThg Here’s the YouTube video about it

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      Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

      https://m.piped.video/watch?v=o5IySpAkThg

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