The OFFICIAL programming thread

[Tazz]

Elliptic Curve Cryptography Overview

[A Former User]

I ported some python code to javascript once that used ECC. I understood it better after the exercise than before but I’m still not 100% up on it. It’s interesting stuff though and heavily used in Bitcoin etc.

[Gators1]

Pretty cool story…

How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million

[A Former User]

@gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Pretty cool story…

How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million

I’m only 6 minutes in so don’t spoil it for me but he just said this:

My friend forgot the password. The irony is is that he’s a poker player with a photographic memory. He remembers everything, cards, license plate numbers etc but he forgot this password.

I’m thinking, yeah right. Your “friend” is a degenerate gambler who has sold the coins chasing losses at a casino and “forgetting” the password is the way he doesn’ have to own up to it.

Maybe I’m too harsh and cynical but that’s what it smells like to me. I’ll keep watching and find out.

[A Former User]

I feel bad now. Good story though.

[Gators1]

Hack the planet!

[Tazz]

Ok who was it??

Rick Moran  /  Feb 3, 2022

Lone U.S. Hacker Brings Down Entire North Korean Internet – Twice

A lone U.S. hacker who goes by the handle “P4x” is claiming responsibility for shutting

[Jam]

@gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Pretty cool story…

How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million

I don’t want to watch the video.

So . . .

Is it relatively easy for a smart person to steal a crypto wallet or not?

[Gators1]

Maybe

[Jam]

@gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Maybe

I had to scan-watch the video you bastage!

So The Kingpin succeeded, but Trezor would have you believe “not next time, buddy.”

[A Former User]

The rest is fair enough but why even mention “This attack requires full physical access to the device” like that in any way mitigates it?

Today I’m proud to announce the Hog Wallet:

You write your private key on a piece of paper, fold it over twice and stick it in your pocket. My system is impenetrable in normal operation. Any attack requires full physical access to the device.

[Gators1]

@hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

The rest is fair enough but why even mention “This attack requires full physical access to the device” like that in any way mitigates it?

Today I’m proud to announce the Hog Wallet:

You write your private key on a piece of paper, fold it over twice and stick it in your pocket. My system is impenetrable in normal operation. Any attack requires full physical access to the device.

I want one! If someone picks my pocket and uses the paper to steal my Lithucoins then I will be left immensely richer!

[Stu]

@tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Ok who was it??

Rick Moran  /  Feb 3, 2022

Lone U.S. Hacker Brings Down Entire North Korean Internet – Twice

A lone U.S. hacker who goes by the handle “P4x” is claiming responsibility for shutting

Tens of people were angered!

[Gators1]

Isnt this website run on NginX too? Maybe its North Korea knocking LOT offline all the time? How do we stop this commie menace?

[Jam]

Did WWIIOL go down at the same time?

[Kilemall]

@stu said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Ok who was it??

Rick Moran  /  Feb 3, 2022

Lone U.S. Hacker Brings Down Entire North Korean Internet – Twice

A lone U.S. hacker who goes by the handle “P4x” is claiming responsibility for shutting

Tens of people were angered!

That’s enough to get whole industries that cave into tens of people.

[A Former User]

Okay, I just created a variable called toBeOrNotToBe and I’m feeling rather pleased with myself.

// Validate is array / not array
const expectArray = kind === PROPERTY_ARRAY;
const isArray = Array.isArray(property);
if (expectArray !== isArray) {
    const toBeOrNotToBe = expectArray ? 'to be' : 'not to be';
    throw new Error(`Expected '${joined}' property ${toBeOrNotToBe} array.`);
}

I haven’t run the above code yet (it’s part of a bigger module) so it might be buggy.

[Pakoon]

Get thee to a nunnery!!!111

[Kilemall]

@pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Get thee to a nunnery!!!111

Woudn’t that be a nunarray?

[Whoofe]

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@stu said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Ok who was it??

Rick Moran  /  Feb 3, 2022

Lone U.S. Hacker Brings Down Entire North Korean Internet – Twice

A lone U.S. hacker who goes by the handle “P4x” is claiming responsibility for shutting

Tens of people were angered!

That’s enough to get whole industries that cave into tens of people.

thats what twitter was created for