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duttishtoday at 8:10 AM2 repliesview on HN

I think there was a rash of this kind of this kind of wrench cryptocurrency robberies in the Netherlands a few years ago.

Break in, bash owner about with a wrench, get coins. <Insert xkcd>


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aurareturntoday at 9:07 AM

Yep, the meme in crypto community is that you can have all the digital security possible but it'll lose to the $5 wrench attack.

fragmedetoday at 10:14 AM

xkcd 538, that is