Bitcoin experts have not yet described this attack in the literature probably because making babies has become unfashionable in the West. So I'll be the first.
I have a 1.5 year old that leaves a trail of destruction during his waking hours. Literally walks from room to room randomly, like a tornado. One of his MOs is rearranging things either into the trash bin or into laundry baskets. Often I'll be loading the machine and find an apple under a pile of clothes. The kid will also unceremoniously dismiss perfectly good household objects to the trash.
Anyway, I left my wallet on the coffee table two days ago. Other than IDs, credit cards and other shit I carry as part of my normie disguise, I have a Tapsigner with a small but not insignificant amount of btc. Unlike my main stash I was lazy and didn't back this up. Yesterday I had to leave, couldn't find my wallet and left without it because I was in a rush. Looked for it today and after a few minutes I realized that the deepness of the shit I'm in is entirely dependent on the whim of my baby. I had already taken out the trash, and as I was pondering the thought of digging through the giant trash container outdoors, my other kid thought to check the laundry bin and there it was.
The Evil Baby Attack is a particularly insidious threat to your stash. Unlike the Evil Maid Attack, it is very difficult to interrogate the perpetrator, and the use of torture is frowned upon. There also doesn't appear to be a profit motive, or apparently any discernible motive at all. Further research is required to come up with mitigation strategy, but on the meantime, mind your stash.
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@koob: can we have a red team for Bitcoin please? @mudbloodvonfrei: we have a red team at home the red team at home:
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I see it the other way - your baby is helping you to test your backup! πŸ™ŒπŸ½πŸ‘€
I realized that the deepness of the shit I'm in is entirely dependent on the whim of my baby.
am I the only one find it a bit amusing to read πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
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Nope!
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my vote for one of the "best of stacker news" posts so far.
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It's urgent to correct wrong tagging if the subject is to be addressed collaboratively. What you describe is "Baby". "Evil Baby" be like: i reordered your github, it was an unprofessional mess. Oh, and here's your wallet, got some more sats in it, keep the change ;)
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Something similar happened to me sometimes with my daughter when she was younger. and she hid the keys, wow I had days full of madness looking for the keys everywhere and it turned out that she hid them so that I wouldn't go to work and so I would stay at home to play hahaha... children's minds are something incredibly magical.
Thanks for sharing your story
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Haha great post.
I am well versed in the evil baby attack. When she was two my daughter threw out her baby hair from her first haircut my wife had saved. My wife was crushed.
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That’s it! Your baby doesn’t get to inherit the Bitcoin. Serves him or her right!
I also have a 1.5 year old, and the part about them being tornadoes is spot-on haha 😜
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in the spirit of 'when the student is ready the teacher appears' did it get you to back up your Tapsigner?
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You'd think so wouldn't you? I will... Right after lunch.
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I thank your kid for the sacrifice, our stash just got a little bigger.
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petitioning that we get lopp to test baby-proofing on steel backups alongside the fire, acid and crush tests
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the use of torture is frowned upon
As a bitcoiner, be the change you want to see in society...
Torture ad libido!
/s
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Hope you've learned your lesson this time!πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
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Ha ha, you were lucky this time!
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Ha! Ha!! Haa!!! That is your next level of higher institution you need to take the course gradually.
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