39
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2026
39 points (97.6% liked)
Hacker News
4636 readers
472 users here now
Posts from the RSS Feed of HackerNews.
The feed sometimes contains ads and posts that have been removed by the mod team at HN.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I think if they try that it's more likely that someone else will get to it first.
How often do you zoom in on public releases to see if anyone posted their crypto keys?
Sure, the chances aren't zero, but they're lower than doing it when you're one of three people with access or whatever.
I'm not looking to steal people's crypto. North Korea on the other hand makes billions a year finding ways to steal cryptocurrency online. If your crypto keys get leaked online in any form, I would consider that money gone because of all the highly skilled and motivated people actively trying to take it. Not that it would take an incredible amount of skill to write a scraping bot that uses ocr+regex.