‘Hey, I don’t believe that any system is totally secure’
— David, WarGames
Was watching this earlier. Is it true that there’s always a back door to systems? Even ones that are meant to be super secure?
Discussion
Yes. Even the most secure system or secure OS can have a vulnerability that no one has discovered yet.
👀 very interesting 🫂🙏🏽
Dunno about electronic stuff but physical security? No perfect system. Just more than it’s worth to get into and takes long enough that you can realize something is going on and react accordingly. Armed security guards? At a certain point they become a trip wire that hopefully the people who really want in make a lot of noise tripping. I would assume electronic security is the same.
Intriguing. Thank you Jacob 🫂🫂🙏🏽
The trick is to not be the low hanging fruit.
Do you mean not to be noticed? 🧐🫂
People want the easy stuff. Don’t look like the easy target. There’s videos of people coming into people’s yards to rob their cars. The thief will look in the window and try the door. If the door is locked and they don’t see anything valuable they’ll move on to the next yard. If that door isn’t locked they’ll open it up and look to see if there’s something they couldn’t see from the outside. This is going to sound bad but looking like a harder target than the people down the street so they go rob the people down the street instead?🤌
Of course if they are there specifically to come get something from you because they noticed you have something they want that’s less likely to happen so definitely part of it.
Yea this is because you can’t guarantee randomness in a closed system that is finite (computers).
This is one of the profound things about Satoshi’s design - it is one of the closest things we have to true randomness, and probably by design.
This lecture covers some of the basics of how and why the stuff that’s worked on here is unique
https://www.patreon.com/posts/107248209?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
Thank you! This is brilliant 🫂
This will make you eschew all forms of technology and move to the mountains.
You can get a reasonably secure system but nothing is perfect. Even the best hardware wallet can be hacked with enough resources. But if there’s only $2k on that bitcoin wallet, you’re not going to spend millions of dollars breaking into it. The important thing is to secure your devices based on your risk profile and what you’re trying to protect. If you had 10 bitcoin then you’d want to spend more money on a more secure device with added safeguards. But if you just want to secure family pictures then just standard encryption with a strong password and an authenticator app is good enough.
Not a security expert but this is what I’ve learned over the last few years trying to learn about this stuff. Fwiw I have never heard of someone stealing bitcoin from a mobile wallet which means that a lot of these attacks are theoretical and/or targeting unique individuals (e.g. enemies of the government, extremely wealth people).
Thank you MAHDOOD 🫂🫂🫂🫂 I was also wondering about the family pictures ngl 🙏🏽
Intriguing 👀🔥 I didn’t necessarily mean bitcoin wallets when I was asking, but this is very helpful 🫂 thank you!
You’re welcome haha what were you considering to use for family pictures?
I use google photos - used to have a pixel so stuck with google photos instead of iCloud - I’ve got nothing crazy on there, but still
Google is horrible. Do you pay for it? Portion drive gives you 5 GB encrypted free storage.
Never seen or heard of a system that couldn’t be cracked given the proper amount of motivation.
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Bitcoin.
Intentional back doors? It happens but it’s rare. I’ve done in a couple of times in systems I built.. but if you get caught it can be career ending move depending on what you did.
Unintentional back doors due to security exploits…? Happens all the time.