You and me both, brother.
Posted on 06/07/2021 3:08:51 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Ha... I’m not buying this from the same media that insisted for four years that DJT was a Russian operative.
Impossible to hack a 64 character key.
105 312 291 668 557 186 697 918 027 683 670 432 318 895 095 400 549 111 254 310 997 536
possible combinations if my math is correct. Unless they used a passphrase that was leaked, which professional hackers don’t do.
I believe this is just propaganda from our Marxist leaders to harm cryptocurrencies and make the FBI/Biden admin look competent.
Nothing is safe anymore. Crypto is only as safe as the global hegemony allows it to be.
FBI can do this and they can’t
1. Determine OBama’s school records, birth cert. etc.
2. Can’t determine if there was massive fraud in the 2020 election.
3. Can’t determine early on, the obvious that there was no Russian collusion with Trump before during or after the election of 2016.
Oh LOL!!!
Interesting. I don’t buy the story about them getting the private key either.
A False Flag operation can be used for more than one Political purpose, so,
Revive Russia, Russia, Russia for one more gasp ...
Blame Trump ...
Sabotage Cryptocurrencies for Joe Ordinary ...
And set a trap for Hackers to own them for nefarious use rather than jail 'em and recover losses for the citizenry.
Sure sounds like Democrat and RINO Government Bureaucrats.
You win the FR-Innerweb award of the day. I have a couple friends brag about, a ton of people on line claiming they are killin it, I can't wrap my head around it and unless you can point me to some self paced training on it, it is right up their in wierdness as Trust the Plan/Q. Look I get it, it's a hedge against a fiat currency but it's a limited edition store of wealth and G-d forbid you loose your login key. I have enough troubles already with passwords.
I’ll suspend judgment. FBI doing its job? Actually catching the bad guys and getting the money back? Something doesn’t fit.
You and me both, brother.
Mine sure isn't. It's hand written and in a sealed envelope in my fire safe.
However it was provided to me via the internet, and to use it, the pass phrase must be entered via the internet. Two possible points of interception.
The were probably in possession of the key by having an informant.
It would also explain the FBI "possession" of the Private Key to the Hackers Bitcoin Wallet"
Not so sure about that.
Occam's suggests Mandiant was contacted before the ransom was paid, and they, in conjunction with alphabets, poisoned the wallet.
"You want your money? Here is a ransom wallet and n/p." If you could root that and make the bad guy believe it was legit all the way to their blockchain transfer to their own wallet or attempt a transaction .... boom.
Instead of paying Yung Fat Heartattack, Colonial paid a fraction of that money to a serious US 3rd-party IT security team, who in addition to participating in poisoning the wallet, likely also built a new, secure network for Colonial.
Note that the alphabets also disgronified Darkside to the point where they have gone all-in on distributing these attacks now, rather than their prior piecemeal revenue stream approach, figuring not everyone can afford Mandiant or are mission-critical enough to pull alphabet weight.
However, we still have reached a tipping point where, instead of these stupid ransomware victims paying up because their water-brained IT guy panics, are now aware that the price point is much lower to have a small, state-of-the-art IT security team simply poison the wallet, while mirroring the network you had, with the security you were lacking.
I'm not sure I worthy of that. I trade currency for a living by the way. Been stuck in a CADJPY trade all day and it ain't moving anywhere, have to wait until Tokyo wakes up. At least my occupation allows me to be on FR a lot.
When it comes to Bitcoin, I am semi knowledgeable technology-wise. I was in IT for 35 years and did some systems programming/security work. I am getting to know cryptocurrencies to trade - developing strategies and writing some robots to trade. They are different than normal fiat currencies and require a different strategy, but in the end it is just another financial instrument to trade. I do not view cryptocurrencies as a hedge against inflation or devalued dollar (and the USD is plenty devalued right now). Hard commodities provide that.
If this was a serious hacker, they would have demanded that Monero be used as you cannot track the block chain. Nor would you then send the money through over 20 different anonymizing servers in an attempt to obscure things, only to then put it in a wallet owned by Coinbase, one of the biggest exchanges in the United States with servers that are under the jurisdiction of the United States. A corporate wallet, which the FBI admits that they already had the key to.
The Biden crime family is capable of anything loathsome.
Yeah; I think I read that in it as well.
Oh?
Well THIS place was safe; for a while.
Now the gummint has it's greedy paws on it!
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