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Title: Why didn't Ross Ulbricht use a brain wallet? Post by: notig on January 18, 2014, 05:58:24 AM did he really think he was uncatchable?
Title: Re: Why didn't Ross Ulbricht use a brain wallet? Post by: Lethn on January 18, 2014, 07:35:57 AM If you read the report about how he was caught you'll find that the reason he was caught was because of bad luck more than anything else, they actually found fake ID's he'd purchased through random searches, the problem is the media are going to report this as if it was a deliberate and cunning move on their part rather than admit they just got lucky when taking down Silkroad.
Title: Re: Why didn't Ross Ulbricht use a brain wallet? Post by: tunctioncloud on January 18, 2014, 09:45:20 AM Using brain wallet has disadvantage you may forget passphrase after many years and you have to store the passphrase anywhere or memorize it your family if you dont want your family loose the Bitcoins if you dead in accident
Title: Re: Why didn't Ross Ulbricht use a brain wallet? Post by: hilariousandco on January 18, 2014, 03:03:16 PM If you read the report about how he was caught you'll find that the reason he was caught was because of bad luck more than anything else, they actually found fake ID's he'd purchased through random searches, the problem is the media are going to report this as if it was a deliberate and cunning move on their part rather than admit they just got lucky when taking down Silkroad. That's not actually true. He was caught using good old fashion detective work and he fucked up in the beginning when he was setting it up by posting on forums he'd signed up with under his personal g-mail account and using the same usernames etc. |