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by ryan-c 1042 days ago
> don’t emphasize that it’s the user’s use of such an systen that makes them vulnerable not the foundation of the technique of brainwallets.

That's because it is the foundation of the technique that makes them vulnerable. They are an "attractive nuisance". A system must be evaluated based on "typical use", not "perfect use".

You come across as a social Darwinist who would be happy for all the warning labels to be removed from everything and all safety regulations repealed. The world you advocate for would be an awful dystopia. You have nothing to say I haven't heard before.

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> WTF is your angle here?

I think this more applied to you. You actually invested time to write a paper about brainwallets because some people don’t understand or know how to use them properly. The paper is not logical, if it was then a small POC I know about is all of them, which obviously it isn’t, you can’t find serious people’s brainwallets, they would be salted in a way that it’s hopeless to crack.

You claim brainwallets are fundamentally unsafe, which honestly is total nonsense if you understand them and how they work.

I’m gonna guess you’re a ban Bitcoin type because it’s… wrong or whatever.

I'm going to go play chess with a pigeon, it seems like a better use of my time.