Monahan said she’d concluded that the common thread among nearly every victim was that they’d previously used LastPass to store their “seed phrase,” the private key needed to unlock access to their cryptocurrency investments.
All that ideological effort to continue relying on a cloud-based password system.
This reassures me in using PasswordSafe, despite the funny looks I get when I try to explain to someonethat “I can’t log in there from my phone, I forgot to update the db file on it”.
@fasterandworse@gerikson “employees of reputable crypto orgs, VCs [venture capitalists], people who built DeFi protocols, deploy contracts” yeah these people all have a track record of being among the smartest people alive. No, wait, the other thing
All that ideological effort to continue relying on a cloud-based password system.
This reassures me in using PasswordSafe, despite the funny looks I get when I try to explain to someonethat “I can’t log in there from my phone, I forgot to update the db file on it”.
@fasterandworse @gerikson “employees of reputable crypto orgs, VCs [venture capitalists], people who built DeFi protocols, deploy contracts” yeah these people all have a track record of being among the smartest people alive. No, wait, the other thing