Imagine a big stamp. Anything stamped with it, the internet in general trusts. Because we all trust that nobody knows how to stamp things like that big stamp. Except instead of a literal stamp, it’s a secret combination of numbers and letters that works like a password. It now turns out that this secret combination of numbers and letters was just the number 4.
Imagine a big stamp. Anything stamped with it, the internet in general trusts. Because we all trust that nobody knows how to stamp things like that big stamp. Except instead of a literal stamp, it’s a secret combination of numbers and letters that works like a password. It now turns out that this secret combination of numbers and letters was just the number 4.
My favourite analogy on this is that they had a master key with 398 slots for bumps, and they decided to only use one notch/bump for the whole thing.
You can’t open that with most regular keys, but if you try the most basic of picking you’ll find it pretty quick.