this is one of the craziest stories i've read.
hackers are absolutely going through and testing low-entropy generation tools, there was a defcon presentation on it a few years back so they absolutely are doing it now.

As far as their entropy, they could have taken dice from a gaming store or dice from a real casino, rolled the binaries themselves and generated very high entropy that way.

You still need a computer to produce the checksum but the entropy can be produced through nature... a shitton of dice rolls and be way better off.


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That's absolutely nuts.....

Did they generate their key using like python built in rng or something?  HAHA.  Or `set_seed=42` as in all the examples??

That being said, someone going through and testing all the wallets generated from common rng packages, using seeds 0, 42, 100, 123, would probably yield some interesting results.
