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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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[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Pay wall 🖕

[-] DjMeas@lemm.ee 2 points 6 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 9 points 6 months ago

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

[-] DjMeas@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 6 months ago

Just use an archive service lol

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

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

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