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EternallyXIII@alien.topB to HardwareEnglish · 2 years ago

Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them

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Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them

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EternallyXIII@alien.topB to HardwareEnglish · 2 years ago
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They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird
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Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them.
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    I imagine its a similar technique to how CC pins are extracted, Hardware stripping and reading the chips. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/IronKey_teardown.pdf = literally top google result.

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