How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet (www.wired.com)
from jeffw@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 04:33
https://lemmy.world/post/15930393

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iopq@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 05:37 next collapse

To be clear, this is a flaw in RoboForm

ABCDE@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 06:54 next collapse

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

Yes, cheers for that.

jeffw@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 06:57 collapse

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

Brkdncr@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 06:24 next collapse

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

PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 09:09 next collapse

Pay wall 🖕

[deleted] on 29 May 2024 11:02 next collapse

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PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 13:39 collapse

And on Android?

Today@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 14:38 next collapse

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

[deleted] on 29 May 2024 16:46 next collapse

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Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org on 29 May 2024 17:14 collapse

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

DjMeas@lemm.ee on 29 May 2024 14:01 next collapse

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.

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org on 29 May 2024 14:49 collapse

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

DjMeas@lemm.ee on 29 May 2024 14:52 collapse

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

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org on 29 May 2024 14:49 next collapse

Just use an archive service lol

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 May 2024 15:46 collapse

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

[deleted] on 29 May 2024 11:00 next collapse

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MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 12:24 next collapse

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

They scoffed at me and never tried it.

AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 13:18 next collapse

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.)

BROTHERM00N@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 18:36 collapse

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

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