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August 23, 2018, 09:54:29 AM
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Although McAfee's CEO stated their Bitcoin wallet can not be hacked, however, the fact that no security software can be completely undetected by hackers. The hackers are really very talented and do the impossible. The problem may be McAfee's has been subjected to the changes and development of malicious software. That was a fatal mistake.
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August 23, 2018, 10:04:26 AM
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in this cyber world, nothing is Un-Hackable unless that stays offline, lol.
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August 23, 2018, 11:54:25 AM
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in this cyber world, nothing is Un-Hackable unless that stays offline, lol

While it is true that keeping electronic devices offline does increase the security a lot, it does not automatically mean that it is unhackable.

Even an offline system does leak information. Whether in form of processing time, electromagnetic fields, etc.. is another question.
But these side-channel attacks are not pure theory. Successful attacks are definitely a possibility.


AES, for example, can be attacked through cache-timing. The reason for this is that the AES algorithm does use secret data as the index of an array.
Since the access time of an element of an array is dependent on the index, this leads to a possible scenario where an malicious actor could try to decrease the search space a lot.
This attack requires physical access to the machine (or an identical copy of the machine) and access to the same AES implementation.

This shows that even an offline system can be hacked. This depends on a lot of factors.
Such an attack might only happen if someone is targeting you and is ready to spend a lot of resources.


IMO nothing really is unhackable. It all depends on the circumstances.

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August 23, 2018, 09:18:38 PM
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Did the hacker gain access to the  wallet content. I think he basically challenged the would be hacker to proof he hacked the wallet by transfering its cryptocurreny. He even went on to increase the rewards. I will be surprised if the wallet was really hacked with all the drama.

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August 28, 2018, 12:01:11 PM
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Ive read an article about this but I thought its just a myth right now
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August 28, 2018, 05:59:46 PM
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Yea I saw that a couple hour ago. This raises questions as to whether other hardware wallets are as safe as their creators are claiming. If you ask anybody on the forum most will tell you that hardware wallets are the safest way to store your coins. I've seen dozens of similar threads about security and at least 90% of the answers were "buy a hardware wallet".
If they want to keep the company they should pay the 250k prize. Claiming the wallet is unhackable is fine, it's still in the early stage, but not paying the bounty will bury them. 
Every hardware wallet have its own security measures. So far Ledger and Trezor has never been hacked or if there is an issue, they treat it very seriously and fix it no matter how slight the issue is. I believe it is still safe than having an online wallet.
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September 08, 2018, 11:52:43 AM
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Yea I saw that a couple hour ago. This raises questions as to whether other hardware wallets are as safe as their creators are claiming. If you ask anybody on the forum most will tell you that hardware wallets are the safest way to store your coins. I've seen dozens of similar threads about security and at least 90% of the answers were "buy a hardware wallet".
If they want to keep the company they should pay the 250k prize. Claiming the wallet is unhackable is fine, it's still in the early stage, but not paying the bounty will bury them. 
Every hardware wallet have its own security measures. So far Ledger and Trezor has never been hacked or if there is an issue, they treat it very seriously and fix it no matter how slight the issue is. I believe it is still safe than having an online wallet.

Just stick to Ledger and Trezor, so far they have been proved as the most secure. I don't know how safe is technology that other harware wallets are based on.
Of course, there is no 100% safety guarantee but still so far there wasn't any security incident related to those wallets and I trust them the most. Everything else is risky and you have to accept that. Especialy avoid online wallets.

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September 08, 2018, 04:19:22 PM
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Yea I saw that a couple hour ago. This raises questions as to whether other hardware wallets are as safe as their creators are claiming. If you ask anybody on the forum most will tell you that hardware wallets are the safest way to store your coins. I've seen dozens of similar threads about security and at least 90% of the answers were "buy a hardware wallet".
If they want to keep the company they should pay the 250k prize. Claiming the wallet is unhackable is fine, it's still in the early stage, but not paying the bounty will bury them. 
Every hardware wallet have its own security measures. So far Ledger and Trezor has never been hacked or if there is an issue, they treat it very seriously and fix it no matter how slight the issue is. I believe it is still safe than having an online wallet.

Just stick to Ledger and Trezor, so far they have been proved as the most secure. I don't know how safe is technology that other harware wallets are based on.
Of course, there is no 100% safety guarantee but still so far there wasn't any security incident related to those wallets and I trust them the most. Everything else is risky and you have to accept that. Especialy avoid online wallets.

Trezor is great, ledger is so so given they dont have the same level of security such as (unlimited password access points).

To say something is unhackable is a bold statement and a very silly thing to say. Maybe they found the backdoor which had been planted that was suppose to be used by McAfee himself to extract everyones coins after they came in thinking its "unhackable" lol.
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September 23, 2018, 09:14:15 AM
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If this could happen to him, it could become a lot of anyone else. In my opinion, this is definitely not good. It does NOT have any positive features that a 'real' hardware wallet has. The effect is a brain wallet. You can not fix a concept where its whole approach is wrong.
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September 23, 2018, 09:18:28 AM
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There is no such a thing such as unhackable. Everything which are connected with the internet or LAN, can be easily hacked.
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October 06, 2018, 04:37:22 AM
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Any software has errors. To be safe, you should secretly personalize your personal information into other login information. I firmly believe that the hackers decided to put the wallet by using the back door just to prove that his name was not important in the little coin. What else? Crypto is therefore vulnerable to errors or errors. They hacked open a door to steal all the struggles and into impossible to do anything. By now everyone knows that McAfee will promote anything that he gets paid regardless of whether it is a scam. Who knows what he will do when he becomes President?
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