• schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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    4 months ago

    You have to wonder how many other things are out there with effectively worthless encryption because some old document or default option told them to/allowed them to implement it without any ‘hey! some 14 year old with a TI-83 could crack this key!’ warnings.

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      4 months ago

      There was a book with a Bitcoin wallet generator code in it that specifically said that it was vulnerable and was only to be done as a demo test and yet somebody released a wallet with that code and fucked a bunch of people over on accident.