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They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird (www.wired.com)
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a pretty good article in how they disassembled the tamper-proof device

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm curious if the bitcoins are even still readable at this point. My understanding is the charges in the memory cells of a usb stick will gradually dissipate over time, and after more than ten years, much of that information may be lost.

You could periodically plug a standard usb drive to refresh the memory, but will that work with these hardware encrypted drives w/o a password?