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How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet (www.wired.com)

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[-] iopq@lemmy.world 54 points 5 months ago

To be clear, this is a flaw in RoboForm

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

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

Yes, cheers for that.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago

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

[-] AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

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.)

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

I tried to tell them it was: "Password123".

They scoffed at me and never tried it.

[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Pay wall 🖕

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

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

[-] DjMeas@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

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 11 points 5 months ago

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

[-] DjMeas@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org -1 points 5 months ago

Just use an archive service lol

[-] BROTHERM00N@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

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