The Loss Of A Digital Livelihood By The click Of A Button

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Before I saw this tweet, for months now I have been looking for ways I can make my digital investment more secured, because, crypto is all I got, and I have invested so much money and time into crypto, securing it is the wisest thing to do. We are going decentralised with our finances, the days of keeping your assets and money with a third party is slowly depreciating as people are beginning to have the option and freedom of keeping their assets theirselves and secured. Freedom they say comes with a lot of responsibilities. You are free to keep your money and your asset yourself without involving any third party like binate or whatever exchange wallet you decide to use, but can you be responsible enough to secure it.
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No one is perfect, everyone can make a mistake, this is something I have come to realise, you can never be too careful. I have been looking for ways to keep my wallet keys secured. Initially when I started storing my wallet keys, I thought my email was the best option, but later on, I realised that, your email can be compromised, and also being a Web 2.0 product, can be taken away from you. You could wake up one day to realise that google has banned your email address because they feel you must have violated one offence or the other. They did that to one of my business emails. Thank God I had no important info there. Being banned from your email is not the only problem, your email could get hacked and all your info stolen.

Reading NFT God’s experience on twitter, brought sadness to my eyes, because this experience can happen to anyone, all he did was click a sponsored ad on his computer and all his digital assets and livelihood was gone. Years of building, gone in a day, because of some mistake anyone could have made. Here I was thinking that only exposing my private keys can make me lose everything, not knowing that clicking an ad link can do that. Hackers can get you any way, we just hope that we can be more careful. This is why cold storage is the safest and most secured and that is something I am looking forward to woking on, having all my assets on cold storage. As long as they are online, you are not safe, a click of a button could lead to a massive loss. After reading his twitter thread, I have been brainstorming on ways to keep my keys safe, just incase, if there was a way I could scramble my keys in a way that I can only understand it. This way, even if a hacker hacks my account, they keys will be useless to them because I am the only one who can decoded the keys.

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all he did was click a sponsored ad on his computer and all his digital assets and livelihood was gone.

Did he give out his keys, or was there something more?

Yes, it is possible for hackers to gain access to cookies with cross site scripting. In such cases, one clicks a link. The hacker can get any cookies used for validation on the site.

Ad companies that allow such ads are criminally negligent in my book.

But, it sounds like something worse happened. There must be more than a simple XSS for the hacker to get everything.

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The twitter thread implies that NFTGod clicked an ad, downloaded a program and ran an .exe file.

An exe file could give the hacker complete access to a machine.

!PIZZA

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Yep, the link itself was harmless. He downloaded an infected OBS installer from the link, and that's how his troubles began.

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Cold storage is the way to go for a lot of things but also just diligence is important. One can’t be too careful these days, aside from creating a new language in order to save ones keys lol.

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exactly, you can never be too careful, scrambling the keys seems to be like the best option for me

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The link itself was harmless. It was the infected OBS installer which he downloaded and installed that infected his computer with malware, that allowed hackers access to his computer and all his accounts.

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Hello @readthisplease good article on keeping keys safe.

I am so sad for @NFT_GOD

Let us know the best way to keep keys safe in the future.

Barb :)

!BBH

!CTP

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No matter how smart we are, there can be a smarter thief than us. I have seen crypto being hacked by those who were not negligent. Still they happened to make some mistake and all their crypto gone. millions of dollars. It is really scary

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