Lars Olsson

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Infosec and privacy are my jams. Permanent IT support for entire extended family.
This is over a month old at this point and I am not sure how I missed it when it was new, but I will bet this may be the first time anyone has been truly grateful for a crappy, (relatively-) easily-cracked PRNG: https://www.wired.com/story/roboform-password-3-million-dollar-crypto-wallet/
How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet

Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.

WIRED
I confess to never having compiled a list of tech glitterati who would be likeliest to be FBI informants, but had I ever bothered to take the time to reflect on it, Peter Thiel’s name would probably have been somewhere on that list: https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10
Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant

In 2021, Thiel, a top tech investor and Trump megadonor, began a secret life as a confidential FBI informant.

Business Insider