0 sats \ 2 replies \ @notgeld 16 Aug 2023 \ on: Known Physical Bitcoin Attacks - Avoid being Doxxed bitcoin
Avoid being doxxed is not a solution here. It is really hard. Jameson was swatted once.
Ensure you are using the best practices for storing bitcoins: cold storage, multisigs and then of course avoid being doxxed.
Yeah, Andreas Antonopoulos explains why "security through obscurity" is a bad idea: most attacks are not targeted, but broad. Some examples:
- If your seed phrase is easy to guess, someone will brute force it and they don't need to know who you are.
- If you have corn in a hot wallet on a machine that's not secured properly, some malware or network exploits may steal it without targeting you specifically.
Avoiding being doxxed is prudent as a measure against targeted attacks, but not enough on its own.
BTW one of the benefits of multisig (over splitting the private key using Shamir secret sharing for example) is that it adds entropy.
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Jameson was swatted once.
Lopp is a social media influencer -- a job that makes doxxing relatively easy by it's very nature. Avoiding social media is trivial, and probably the easiest way to avoid getting doxxed.
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