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Position that the failure was error, not design

danwilcz-2085674528534048781

https://x.com/danWilcz/status/2085674528534048781

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Daniel Wilczynski says he does not think the ColdCard hack was anything nefarious, that the vendor simply made a major mistake, and that AI has become much better at finding security vulnerabilities over the past year, which is why this was exploited now. Held as a compact statement of the not-malicious reading, which this record carries alongside the insinuation material it also holds, including the resurfaced 2021 entropy joke at bramk-2084618965226074604 and the pseudonym-attribution gist. Both the verdict and the AI-timing explanation are the poster's own and are not verified here.

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