this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
16 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1490 readers
32 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
dgerard@awful.systems
16
"Be your own bank" reaches logical end stage as hackers are mining LastPass breach for crypto accounts to loot (krebsonsecurity.com)
submitted 1 year ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

"Oh no! - Anyway" meme intensifies.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Monahan said she’d concluded that the common thread among nearly every victim was that they’d previously used LastPass to store their “seed phrase,” the private key needed to unlock access to their cryptocurrency investments.

All that ideological effort to continue relying on a cloud-based password system.

[–] kuna@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

This reassures me in using PasswordSafe, despite the funny looks I get when I try to explain to someonethat "I can't log in there from my phone, I forgot to update the db file on it".

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 7 points 1 year ago

@fasterandworse @gerikson "employees of reputable crypto orgs, VCs [venture capitalists], people who built DeFi protocols, deploy contracts" yeah these people all have a track record of being among the smartest people alive. No, wait, the other thing