@pcaversaccio: crypto security is a total disaster right now

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time for a quick vibes check on where our industry's at security-wise; well, folks, guess what, 95% of last months' SEAL 911 tickets were the same shitshows on repeat: folks running sketchy code some rando DMed them (stop cloning & running GH repos you got from some random dude who asks for your "help"), hopping on Zoom calls where scammers walk them through (effectively) self-pwning (dude, believe me you don't need to patch your zoom or google meet) their own machines, teams getting nuked because they thought hiring bargain-bin devs from North Korea was a great idea, or some skiddies calling up victims pretending to be Coinbase support (always Coinbase, like 90% of the time and the rest is Ledger) and walking off with their funds. On top of that, there's the usual: someone falling in love with a random Tinder match and getting rinsed by a textbook Sha Zhu Pan play, and of course, the ever-reliable dev who commits their .env file with private keys straight to GitHub, NPM, etc. - people cannot handle private keys & seed phrases - people devices are _constantly_ (and by constantly I mean every fucking day) compromised - people are completely naive when it comes to basic web2 security (dude, stop storing your pws & 2FAs in the same password manager you use locally) - devs are blindly cloning, installing and running github repos locally and get rekt we're so fucking far away of being considered a "secure" ecosystem. It's a complete shitshow right now.

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Pcaversaccio says that crypto security is in poor shape, with about 95% of last month's SEAL 911 tickets repeating the same few scams and mistakes. The cases cited include victims running code from random GitHub repos, scammers walking users through self-compromise on Zoom or Google Meet calls, teams hit by North Korean job applicants posing as developers, and fake Coinbase support calls (Coinbase in about 90% of cases, Ledger for the rest). The post also lists people mishandling private keys and seed phrases, devices being compromised daily, and developers committing .env files with private keys to GitHub or NPM. The author concludes the ecosystem is far from being considered secure.

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