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Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
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[–] IrregularChore@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

The password auto generated by his software wallet used the date/time as the "random" seed for the password, so knowing the rough date he created it they were able to get it to spit out the same password again. So not very secure at all.