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[Thryleon]

The method is somewhat irrelevant, the easy way or the hard way, the reality is the US Feds broke criminal bitcoin accounts either by deception or technological brute force and withdrew funds, they've done it once so they'll can do it again. And the Anom App crushing the Comancheros is yet another example, techno deception or not, and that is technology more than 3 years old, they had been doing it for that long assembling the evidence!

Personally, I don't see this as any different to the way a Stingray works for a call interception on the cellular network, they are just a deception run by the state, the assertion is Bitcoin has suffered much the same. Judging by the market reaction, I suspect many investors agree, they do not know how long ago it was broken. The suggestion of a whistle-blower might just be the authorities covering their tracks in much the same way the British let the Germans think the prevention/failure of German operations was from conventional intelligence and not Bletchley Park breaking Enigma.

The problem for Bitcoin or other Crypto Currency users is how do they know, because trust is broken?

Personally, I don't understand how you are not sensitive to this, yet think a lockdown to save lives in a pandemic is a risk to civil liberties and freedoms. It seems at best arbitrary if you want the expertise of cryptographers and IT specialist accepted without question, yet questions health professionals.

Many would see this interception of Bitcoin as a threat to freedoms and liberties, Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies were of course created for this very reason, to free the public from the tyranny of the financial system. Apple might even market encryption and blockchain that very way!

Actually, the bolded statements of what we are talking about is the major relevance.  HOW is the single most important thing when it comes to cyber security.

Ill give you a clue.  Look up 0 hour cyber attacks and what they take advantage of.


The rest of your post, is philosophy, tied up in jargon dressed with a little bit of sarcasm.

The pandemic risk to civil liberties and freedom is not quite relevant.  The response, very extremely risk averse and not commensurate to the risk profile.  Online Cybersecurity is different.  State sponsored hackers are not the only type.

LP, I appreciate that google can teach you a lot in a very short period of time, but expertise in any one of these facets is not found on google.

The online world is much easier to hack than anyone understands.  THIS is the premise behind cyber security.  As a test case, have a look at your password for this very forum.  How secure would you guess it would be?  If someone knew you quite intimately, would they be able to crack it easily enough?  Combine that with the resources of the FBI, NSA or CIA, and then add in a quantum computer for good measure.

The weakest link is the human.  It always has been, and always will be.  2001 a space odyssey tells that story well enough.