alanbwt on Nostr: To be clear, the coldcard bug could have been exploited even without the use of AI, ...

To be clear, the coldcard bug could have been exploited even without the use of AI, so AI is no excuse for the coinkite team’s oversight.

Still, the impetus to assess other hardware wallet vulnerabilities using AI in light of this event has been a welcome trend.

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Just as it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy hardening systems with AI to stop a bad guy finding exploits in those systems with AI.

One of the silver linings of this recent coldcard exploit is it has spurred white-hat hackers into action.

And thankfully, cryptography itself favors defenders.