Some of them still function and have data on them. Is there a way I can quickly scan a device to see if there is a btc or altcoin wallet stored on them? I'm thinking a program wouldn't be too hard to make, maybe something that just looks for a program using the sha256 protocols. But I have no up to date programing skills. I could look through manually but the odds are against me and its time consuming lol.But I do handle thousands of devices a year so who knows?
You would have to manually plug them in, one by one and write a script that scans the drive/device for any files named wallet.dat. Its possible to write a program to search a defined pattern in the files to analyse and get the wallet.dat though the first would probably work better.
It would be pretty sweet to find an old wallet, keys stored on the device and have some free crypto worth who knows what. Has anyone heard of anything like this?
Definitely, but they most likely would be encrypted in the first place so its quite useless.
