They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird

They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird

Because the chip’s read-only memory, or ROM, is built into the layout of its physical wiring for better efficiency, Unciphered’s visual model gave it a head start toward deciphering much of the logic of the IronKey’s cryptographic algorithm. But the team went much further, attaching tenth-of-a-millimeter gauge wires to the secure element’s connections to “wiretap”…

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SBF’s Magic Hair and Other Big Moments From the FTX Trial

SBF’s Magic Hair and Other Big Moments From the FTX Trial

During cross-examination, defense attorney Mark Cohen continually tried to stress that Alameda’s total net value assets were the same across the alternatives, and Ellison kept responding that, yes, but the balance sheets were still misleading. Things Sam Is Freaking Out About According to Ellison’s “things Sam is freaking out about” document, Bankman-Fried was stressed about…

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