BiCC

chadbag said:

AppleZulu said:

This is irresponsible reporting. The headline and lede make it seem like this was somehow a failure on the part of the iPad itself. It was not.

Read on, and you'll understand that the issue was that, once dropped, the iPad became a wedged-in obstruction to flight control mechanisms. The same would've been the case if the dropped item had been a Microsoft Surface, or a paper notebook in a rigid binder. There is no fault in the hardware design or software operation of the iPad itself.

The headline is 100% correct.  Nothing in the headline implies that it was a failure of an Apple product.  The headline couldn’t have been simpler and more correct. 

I’m as Rah Rah for Apple as the next guy but this sort of comment is funny and ridiculous at the same time.  Of course it could have been a MS Surface or a book or binder.   And the headline would have been “Fatal Helicopter Crash Likely Caused by Dropped Book”.  No one would think that the content or color of the book would have been related to the crash.  Why would you think a software error on a dropped iPad was the cause here?  It plainly states that the fact the iPad was dropped was a cause. 

Marvin said:

BiCC said:

How do you steal a Blockchain wallet remotely - you need the eleven random passwords made randomly and the passcode you create - as for a physical wallet like Ledger it only has 250 bites so no possible physical room for malware.  Plus the random words and so on... Blockchain is unhackable.  I once read the odds are one trillion to the exponent one million.  

They steal credentials like private keys. There are a number of things they can do:

https://www.uptycs.com/blog/what-is-meduza-stealer-and-how-does-it-work
https://cointelegraph.com/news/hodlers-beware-new-malware-targets-metamask-and-40-other-crypto-wallets
https://www.techradar.com/news/google-removes-crypto-stealing-chrome-extensions-from-its-web-store

They can replace or modify a crypto browser extension to look like the official one and get you to enter the seed phrase.
They can also try to extract data from the extension, people don't need to input the seed phrase every time they use a browser crypto wallet so some extensions are storing authentication details and that can be stolen to access the wallet.
They can intercept wallet communication so the next time a transaction is made, it can send a different amount to a different destination.
They can compromise emails that are used to access online crypto exchanges, maybe some emails have QR codes.
They can put keyloggers in place to track any time a seed phrase is pasted somewhere.