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by KingMachiavelli 1763 days ago
The lack of security at the time of purchase isn't really the issue... it's the lack of security & best practices at the time of recovery that is the issue. Anyone getting >=10,000x returns on crypto basically had to have either forgotten or temporarily lost their crypto because 99.99% of people would sell after getting 1000x gains.

I think the main issue in this vulnerability was only fixed in early 2019 so it is super recent compared to the value & state of cryptocurrenty. Even I would expect any crypt wallet software from 2018 to be secure because crypto was no longer a niche interest at that point. Sure regular security & bug fixes are a norm for modern software but having such an egregious issue as recent as late 2018 is unacceptable.