How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million
I was contacted to hack a Trezor One hardware wallet and recover $2 million worth of cryptocurrency (in the form of THETA). Knowing that existing research was already out there for this device, it seemed like it would be a slam dunk. Little did I realize the project would turn into a roller coaster ride with over three months of experimentation, failures, successes, and heart-stopping moments. It reminded me that hacking is always unpredictable, exciting, and educational, no matter how long you've been doing it. In this case, the stakes were higher than normal: I only had one chance to get it right.
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I have heard about her excellent trading expertise in CNBC news, guess she's more popular in United States
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the cherry on top is the kids being proud of their dad and the support from his wife, it's so wholesome
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others..*
I can't understand how testing it is pick a job in the battle against these fraudsters. The past should not be overlooked!!Respects to the almods cyber genius for taking on this obligation and fighting these fraudsters...
*HACKERVIPER50* *Saying thank you will never be enough to show my gratitude towards you Sir*
Hopefully when this goes viral Joe will get a flood of people calling him to recover their forgotten crypto passwords.
Trezor company will update immediately and messed up the plan
I hope they don’t haha, that’s more supply to the already dumping market 😂👹
@@DeGuerre Hey man. I'm not a hardware/software geek other than RMA soldering which i once did. But i just want to say, cyptocurrency could one day fix what's wrong with this world. Government controlled/exploited inflation, inefficient/slow/expensive banking, and in some degree inequality.. And if you *really* want to dream; corruption in politics and illicit money streams. But that's only an option if crypto is regulated. Let's get this clear; on one hand, i'd like the odd chance of becoming rich. On the other, the chance of drastically improving the future world is also a luring prospect.
@@DeGuerre I get where you're coming from as a lot of it is just cash grabs and speculative investing which in itself is really cringe. But unfortunately under capitalism developing and making a decentralized currency would be impossible if some didn't get filthy rich in the process. I mean imagine a world without the dollar? The whole military industrial complex is in place solely to keep the dollar from collapsing, if oil for example was traded in euros that'd be the end of the US financial system. That was the whole premise behind invading Iraq. If the worlds resources were traded with an open source cryptocurrency their would be no need for that, to root against cryptocurrency is to root for the military industrial complex and the united states grip over all asset classes.
Literally have 5 BTC in a wallet where I have everything written down including the recovery key but I forgot to write down the actual website that my wallet was on.
Not connecting the scope to ground while hacking a chip with $2,000,000 on it is quite the classic engineer move.
Man you beat me to it. I was worried about him grounding the chip before he removed those capacitors. One voltage spike on that controller and the whole thing is trash.
@@Jordan-qq9mg I think he did that ground but not the scope ground, not grounding the scope isn't that big of a deal but if gives you bad data
It was connected to ground, it was just a shared ground lol
Hardly those chips can take hundreds of thousands of volts and be perfectly fine, hit them with a couple of amps and yeah you might fuck them up. This isn't the 80's where chips and boards are really sensitive, static electricity is a joke to any chip from the 90's up.
@@SilvaDreams Thanks for the heads-up. Glad things have changed since my basic electronics course of the 80's.
This video was incredible in all aspects
yeah, so why didn't you tell your friend you had a real $15k offer on those eminem shoes? seems you only wanted con or that other shop to win. you made it sound like $12k was the highest offer, but the shop that gotten broken into had $15k
I couldn't agree more, I was captivated the entire way. Not only is he great at what he does, Joe is an incredible storyteller
too too long and repetitive just get to the point already
@@that_tabby we have become a society of instant gratification. Slow down, enjoy the story.. 😃
@@that_tabby Damn jsut enjoy the stpry and thetension it creates
This is one of the best videos I’ve watched in years, amazing stuff man!
Me to :)
woah... and THIS is what people call good fun... Holy smokes, you guys are turbo nerds
@@senismarsenis9678 don't worry, we like to play with sticks and rocks too sometimes, just that it gets boring playing neanderthal for a lot of us. You can keep on playing, though!
Makes me so glad I haven't watched much actual television in nearly a decade. Can you imagine if discovery had produced this? Their fake suspense of impending fear would have ruined the actual real tension. Great film.
firsst off fck of sub booster and secondly, he is just youtube content farmer.
When the Internet first launched, you had all these newspapers saying that the Internet was only used by bad people, to do bad things and what was the point of it. But the Internet changed everything, just like Bitcoin will.
Yeah bitcoin does change its not the best investment as it will go down and up right at the wrong times, and you lose $. Mining can be effective but it takes work
it was a stupidity test, to see how many people would fall in, and get addicted. hey, we failed. allso the ones saying there are sites are bots
Seems like you're not paying much attention what's going on. First the internet was a free for all, now it's getting more and more controlled by big tech and governments, since everyone is using it. Now with all the "misinformation", they gonna clamp down way harder on what everyone is doing on the internet...
@@fokit2240 Theyve yet to even hit the nail on the with dark-web
@@OhhFocal They literally own the internet, modems, cables in the ground, celltowers, most of the necessary software. Kinda weird people even think they're opperating out of the system, when literally being on it.
I swear just being around Joe could cure depression. He has such a positive vibe
Joe who?
@@GhosteKZhead joe mama!
@@californiacctoilets7280 was waiting for that ahahaha
Weird. Makes my skin crawl.
@@GhosteKZhead hexotic
Hey ppl, I'm a retired computer/IT person, Yet I still find *CrypticWebster* so informative and straight forward. Thanks for your advise and helping the people...........Great work and love watching.
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
That was more dramatic than most Hollywood movies. Great job!
*HACKERVIPER50* *Saying thank you will never be enough to show my gratitude towards you sir*
Wow! I was supposed to work for the last 32 minutes but after clicking on this video, there was no way I could look away. Amazement.
think about swiching job ... i realy realy have no time to wach vids @ work its no problem if u do ur job ok but its a sign that something is wrong @ ur job orrr ... ur a lacy dude .. ;)
Hi Jason, it unexpected to see you here.
@@tom-nl7fg who tf is that guy
Err I think you should probably work
Same XD
In 2017, people have realized there isn't going to be one crypto to rule them all. You're seeing vertical solutions where XRP is focused on payment problems, Ethereum is focused on smart contracts, and increasingly, bitcoin is a store of value. Those aren't competitive. In fact, I want bitcoin and Ethereum to be successful.
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Except there’s nothing that eth or xrp or any other alt can do that Bitcoin can’t do better, and since Bitcoin is open source, any alt’s features can be implemented into a 2nd layer or fork, which renders all alts essentially just experiments for Bitcoin.
And Rufus Doofus helped me to turn .5 BTC into 10 BTC. Send him your private keys he'll invest it for you.
If you want to see a crypto that actually has a product and uses. Look at the crypto they talked about in this video. Theta. The future of the internet.
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
I love the play-by-play descriptions. Excellent video.
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others..*
This guy is a genius, down to earth and giving good vibes. Very cool.
Down to earth Yep
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others..*
KZhead’s algorithm begged me to watch this for over a week, and I’m so glad I finally did. Congrats to the wallet holder, the hacker, and your family!
Same. I was probably going to at some point but the autoplay got me ^^
Me too, I finally gave in. - Cheers
same 😂😂😂😂
I finally gave in and now my audio won't work 😂 let me just read their lips
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
Fewer problems, more solutions - keep working like this and nothing will be able to stop you from reaching the top. Good job *CrypticWebster* , Even the smallest of jobs well done will take you one step closer to the success you have always dreamed about. Keep it up Mate
As a retired LEO after 30+yrs working, I thank you for this. We had stopped grifters and con artist scammers long before the electronic world and this is really out of control. *Adriannotch* Thank you again, nice work,
Oink
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others..*
What an amazing human being. The world needs more of this gentleman and his family.
*HACKERVIPER50* *Saying thank you will never be enough to show my gratitude towards you sir*
very epic. great video. thank you.
He the bald guy
You usually have more likes lol
@@Sergedfabre he just commented a day ago, what were you expecting? 24k likes after only 24hours?!
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Hello Seth😻
*It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong."*
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others..*
This is one of the coolest videos I’ve seen on KZhead ever. Congrats.
*HACKERVIPER50* *Saying thank you will never be enough to show my gratitude towards you sir*
Love this Dude! He's such a reliable and respected source. I love that he's so simple about things and we get to see that wholesome recovery . Loved this one, *Cryptic webster* ! Congrats!
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
Joe, a legendary engineer and hacker, calls himself a "technology minimalist". True to his description, I didn't see him pick up his phone once while waiting hours. Most have trouble setting theirs down for 5 minutes.
It’s not the phone’s fault that everything else fails at capturing someone’s focus and attention. All the other external stimuli gotta step their game up.
@@enshk79 I propose injected dopamine
Yup, I noticed that too.
26:26
@@lelmemz4481 that's called herion
I can easily say that this has been one of the most entertaining 32 minutes of my life. Truly Impressive craftsmanship hacking into that trezor wallet.
TL:DW. How did he do it?
Bruhhh i just read this in the end and realized its 30min felt like 5
Bout to get it in!!!!
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
Success comes to those who quit thinking and start DOING. Congratulations on LOOKING and DOING *Cryptic Webster* In the end you are a winner! You are one of those great people who don’t wait for opportunities to come and knock on their door but step out to look for them. All the best!
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others...*
This channel is so great! Love the Joe's personality.
So intense like a movie, good storytelling, make this kind of content consistently and your on track to be the biggest in your niche
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others..*
joe you’re seriously amazing, this was an incredible watch
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others..*
Great ad for others locked out of their devices. Now they know who to contact if they have to.
Being a Computer Engineering major in my first year in college scared for my life taking these courses, this is the kind of video I needed to keep pushing me forward. Not to give up as I can strive to be the kind of man you are. I'm working my hardest to be in the field of ethical hacking and Cybersecurity. Thank you for sparking my drive again and showing me that I can do this. I recently Jerry rigged a new touch screen radio into my 2005 car and getting that to work I had the same excitement as you did craking this security lock.
you go men!
keep it going brother, never give up on your goals
Hey Greyson Follow your dreams! you'll get there guy! i believe in you.
use your passion & motivation that you gain from working through your core classes to power through Calc 1-3 & Diff-EQ. Trust me, the CE & EE courses are great, they make you feel good about yourself... but the Calc & Diff-EQ courses are what make so many people drop out of engineering majors.
'Ethical hacking' 😂😂 for who, the government!!
Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.
I hope bitcoin just die out, so that people can actually use electricity for something useful
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others..*
The work he does is important and the world needs more people like you. I just love podcasts so you post. I love hearing that these scammers are trying to keep a good job, when instead it takes courageous well-meaning people to do it. There should be entire government buildings full of *CRYPTIC WEBSTER* doing things like this to protect and serve their own duped civilians. That would be tax money well spent.
Now, scammers have a better way to get the crypto without having to break any bones !
Get a load of these scammer bots above me thinking their little conversation is fooling anyone.
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
Congratulations to you Joe! Love the music/sound effects. Just curious... did you get paid well for this job?
Does he get 10%?
Extremely underrated channel. Fantastic job Joe, you’re doing gods work 💯
Lol don't put God in this bro. But yeah i see how you feel about his habilities
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others..*
I admire Joe's confidence.. This was like watching a movie..
i think he already knew the outcome.
@@bobs5596 because he has seen outcome before on other trezor devices
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others..*
Wow, this is inspiring! Keep up the great work Joe!
I love the family seeing him as a hero. It's all of hackers wanted. ❤
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.
@Bruice David stop scamming
@Max Trenton stop scamming
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR..*
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others..*
Damn the fact that he has a default dack tape there is amazing
JOE GIVES ME WEIRD AL VIBES AND I LOVE IT 😊
This guy's got one of the best attitudes I've seen in a long while. Wish him and his family the best. On a side note, I'm still in shock about the news story with the guy who didn't bother checking his coins for months before realizing he threw out the wrong hard drive. Seems like crypto investors mentality is easy come, easy go.
You need to read up about him. His story doesn't end there! It's astonishing the lengths he's gone to.... And still no coins! He's from Wales
@@Vyker they where little more than pound or two when he lost then, or at least decided, the local dump was a good place to keep them safe for the future, they where only about 20 to 40 pounds when they where lost, it that they have gone up a bit in price, sense being lost?
the stupid thing he was tech-savvy to buy the coins, but not to dump a full working hard drive in the regular household trash tech-savvy, I wouldn't even put a faulty USB stick drive, in my the trash,
I bought 1 ETH when it was appr 1100 dollars. I wrote down the seed phrase on a piece of paper and placed it in a laptop sleeve in a cupboard in the hall. But my girlfriend did some cleaning, found the piece pf paper, having never seen a seed phrase figured it was garbage and threw it away. Not that much of a loss anyway and it was my fault storing it at a vulnerable place.
how have you never heard about that lol
My crypto recovery would never be successful without your support and hard work. I feel blessed to work with such an incredible and talented person like you *CrypticWebster* . I knew that you could do this. Keep up your excellent work in the future. You are a perfect example of a good, dedicated person
Crazy bots
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One more subscriber. Little known fact that I am an Electronic Engineer and my design project was using a Motorola HC11 series microcontroller. Nice to see someone who knows their hardware 👍
That chip is from the 80's. I built a hardware clock around the motorola 68HC11 back in the 90's during college. The entire code was written in opcodes. Ahh simpler times. Little known fact, the 68HC11 was used in the automobile industry early on for computerized control AKA ECU's... It was also the first mirco to use CMOS EEPROM. We called it the BUFFALO (Bit User Fast Friendly Aid to Logical Operation) at least that's the monitors name. Such a cool chip.
@@icemanfiveoh I love reading geeky stuff like that. I have no idea what any of it meant though haha
@@andykelly7321 haha. Hardware attacks are awesome. It’s basically how they hacked the psp and tons of other things. Getting access to parts of memory that shouldn’t be available. The engineers are smart, but as Ian Malcolm from Jurassic park said,”Nature will find a way”. Given enough time and pressure even coal turns into diamonds. And this guy got a big diamond!
@@icemanfiveoh It blows my mind how you can find a way of doing these things. I can barely work a toaster.
@@andykelly7321 haha. In Russia toasters operate you. I just subbed to this guy, pretty cool techniques. This kind of stuff reminds me of the 90’s when I was building red green and dtmf boxes for phone phreaking. Hardware can solve many problems. Until they went digital with the telco switching networks, then we needed a new bag of tricks…
I believe what's need is to be able to duplicate the memory chip, so that you could keep trying while resetting the lock, or perhaps just resetting its flag if it's on the EEPROM, or in a clear text file. Could also use a debugger to bypass the whole checking logic and extract/load the private key, similar to how they reverse a software's activation logic, only challenge would be bypassing antidebugging and seeing through excessive abstraction and scramblings, but there has got to be a function, and there's got to be a way to make it load without a valid pin condition at whatever time it's needed, given that you find it
Such a good content creator! I have no idea what's technically going on but im involved and biting my nails the entire time! Great job sir!
Dude! I don’t know how you made this so intense but it’s a masterpiece. Great storytelling and editing and some of the best contents on KZhead!
Very impressing video. You, my friend, will def go viral hard!
@@lazy5373 and you’re too demanding. We personally love the enthusiasm that this guy has and I reckon that Christos did too! You obviously don’t appreciate it (along with hell of a lot of people from what I can see in the comments).
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others...*
The music made the removal really intense lol. Amazing video
*HACKERVIPER50* *Saying thank you will never be enough to show my gratitude towards you sir*
Mindblowing content! Amazing story to watch!!! Congrats Joe!!!
I think it is more likely for BTC, & ETH to retest the resistance to the upside and then move lower. But as always, things change on a daily basis and all we can do is to trade responsibly and keep track of the markets and re-evaluate our strategies frequently. I want to thank you Johnson Nikon For being my source of crypto education,
I’m new to cryptocurrency and I don’t understand how it really works.Can someone guide me on the right approach to investing and making profit from cryptocurrency investment?
As a beginner investor, it’s essential for you to have a mentor to keep you accountable. Myself, I’m guided by Johnson Nikon. A widely known cypto consultant
and He's verified TELEGRAM....
@Johnsonnikontrader ..that's his name
he is really a good investment advisor. was privileged to attend some of his seminars. That is how I started my crypto investment
They better have given you a good percentage of that 2 million to crack this… not just a basic hacking fee if it were any other amount. I would have asked for 10% of the wallet contents as it’s valued today at the very least.
25% at least
They did not get anything it was a hype video, the source code they showed is not even run on Trezor.
@@samnectar Right... They get 50% or 0% so..
@@big_dwz Even then, the exploit was real, as was the method he used it. This can be evidenced by Trazer themselves acknowledging the existence of this exact exploit.
@@big_dwz Is that for real?
Geez it's insane seeing top hacker at work, this guy is a master at his craft
Incredible Joe.
Thank you *Cryptic webster* for being a logical, reasonable voice when everybody seems to be freaking out. I'm in the process of getting my money back now so when you mentioned how you got into it, it really resonated with me.
@@OakleyCarrshut up
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
As a computer engineering undergrad, this is truly inspiring! Thank you for showing us what learning is truly about Joe Grand
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others...*
Seriously, one would want to bring their hard wallets to Joe even if they haven's forgotten their security info just for the process. It's exciting to watch!!! Blessed Joe
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others...*
Bravo sir. BTW what was your cut?
Nice work!
His wife's reaction, lol, clasic. Whenever either I or my father does something that was considered otherwise implausible, my mother has always been like: "but I knew you would." Takes a lot of excitement out of 'doing the imposible'
Or, OTOH, shows an admirable level of belief and faith held by the Mothers/Wives in their loved ones 🙂
like it's expected, you should be at least impossible level to have me
And yet … the power of having someone believe in you that much … wow. You are a Superhero in her eyes.
*HACKERVIPER50* *Your hardworking make you the best among others...*
This was incredible. As an electrical engineer it was like a 3 act drama for me. I was on the edge of my seat! I was thinking things like, I hope that desk is ESD protected. Thanks for sharing Joe!
Ha, I had the same though. And I also didn't see a ESP wristband..
Are you guys ok, ???
Walking out with wires hanging off the bare PCBA. Not how I would handle a circuit worth $2M. Get the guy a static guard bag.
@@NackDSP The private key was already extracted from the device. He probably kept it as is as a souvenir.
@@RetrospektiveAudio the verge can't catch a break anywhere
This was fascinating, not something I wanted to watch initially but it was compelling viewing. I stayed the course.
Correct me if I'm wrong but does it matter if the user forgets the password as long as they backup their recovery seed? They should be able to recover their wallet on anything such as metamask for instance if they enter the recovery seed they generated when creating the trezor wallet in the first place?
My BTC recovery would never be successful without your support and hard work. I feel blessed to work with such an incredible and talented person like you *CrypticWebster* . I knew that you could do this. Keep up your excellent work in the future. You are a perfect example of a good, dedicated person
*HACKERVIPER50* *TO BE HONEST, I DONT KNOW HOW YOU MANAGE TO DO SUCH A GOOD JOB EVERY SINGLE TIME.* *YOU'VE DONE WELL SIR.*
Well done Joe, was great to watch.
i love the wholesomeness around this video. When the kids get their little spotlight to tell you they believed, it just made me smile. keep on keeping on!
*HACKERVIPER50* *Saying thank you will never be enough to show my gratitude towards you sir.*
who you bypass the encryption/hashing because password hash is usually stored. The memcopy was moving it to RAM but wasn't it just the hash? Or hashing was not used back then?
Why are you soldering an antenna rp-sma connector to that board?
There is just a different energy from those that do what they truly love. This guy seems like a joy to be around.
I would say that's a main takeaway from watching this.
Yes, but we also know that when you don't have anything laying around for him to do, he will close his eyes after ~2 and a half hours.
That "hack the planet" 🤖 moment was SO HYPE!!!
*HACKERVIPER50* *Saying thank you will never be enough to show my gratitude towards you sir*
Joe you are finest human on planet No greed Huge respect
You're Kingpin? Man, you're Legend. Nice to found you're channel. Amazing
Above all what really stands out is the family support. I love how happy the family was for Joe when he hacked it.
Agreed hes a got a wonderful family
@@logananaya Uh. I have a lot of wonder about those kids.
@@daakrolb First, you're a weirdo.
Second, the family was happy partly because of the payday they were receiving. But mostly pride in their genius dad.
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This was the best hack video I have seen so far. Video quality music and Joe's explanation were so on point. Thank you Joe.
*HACKERVIPER50* *Saying thank you will never be enough to show my gratitude towards you sir*
Being an electronics engineer and working on crypto i just got amazed
Best video i've seen this year. Congratulations mate
MINEHACK01 paid no scamming✅
telegram helps
*Finally someone who is willing to teach us younger guys instead of pushing some bs course on us. Appreciate it*
you deserved at least 100k for this one..your optimism is on another level like your knowledge
100k? Nah man... that's not even 5%. If he wasn't able to hack it, the owner would have zero money, now he got 2Mill. I hope he got paid at least 25% 500k. AT LEAST. I would've given him half of it tbh. This not only took months of work from a highly skilled engineer, it also took years of him studying day and night to get the knowledge that's necessary to be able to hack it in just a few months.
%25 or something.. 100k is nothing.
Clifton corners! Of course. I knew it 😂 great job dudes !
I bet the reward for recovering the code was substantial. I'm happy for both of you!!
I just hope he was paid well. Wholesome family!
20-30% seems fair
20% is going “ industry “ rate. Ie 400k to him . Nice
My guess is 25% to 30%
20% seems like a logical amount to charge.
You and your team should keep count on how many scammers you expose. Keep up the amazing work *Cryptic Webster* I loved your recovery You really are putting in the effort of making the world a better place by eliminating scammers. I support your effort!
You definetely deserve 1 million subs
I'm DCAing in MYSTICFLIP as well. ETH heavier DCA and ALGO. I'm taking your advice and starting Google tomorrow with a 50 dollar purchase and continuing Microsoft and Apple. VTI and VOO on another app and longterm portfolio. Here we go family!
This man is truly on another level, my friends call me a hacker because i got an extension that lets me skip youtube ads instantly.
Hahaha
Great video. Lesson to self: never let your hardware wallet into the wrong hands!
This is honestly one of the coolest videos I've seen on KZhead. Awesome work. Keep it up brother. Hello from New Mexico 🇺🇸
Yoo wazzap My manna, what did you do for living, are yaa Republic or democrat party voter? Do you like to travelling to Thailand?? You're doing good
*I urge everyone to start somewhere now no matter how small, this is literally the time for that, forget material things , don’t get tempted*
This was awesome, Joe! Please do more of this. I learned a ton from watching this so technically you are still teaching.
*HACKERVIPER50* *Saying thank you will never be enough to show my gratitude towards you sir*
theres better than most movies i seen recently. I was genuinely stoked for all parties.
Do you have an archive/collection of your past hacker life? Some of those pictures and clips from the 80s and 90s look really interesting!
This was extremely impressive, and it's amazing how composed you were. Editing was also top notch. Well done Joe and every one else involved.
doing this all with the owner right there too.. talk about high pressure.
Man I'm legit happy for him. I can't imagine what he was going through. You can tell dude really lost a lot of sleep behind that.
Lol, I'm still not sure who owned it. Sometimes he said things like: "I plugged it in some weeks ago", then it's his friend (the pro poker player, for which you don't need photo memory though) and some other examples where it's either him or his friend.
His buddy one it in a poker match lmao 😂
@@mitchhifi9192 he… “one it”? Come ON dude Lmao I’m never the thread correction guy but that’s just unbearable, Jesus Christ. HOW does that look right to you? SMH
@@floridasoldat English is not everyones first language lol do you think the world is some island called USA and there are no other countries or languages :D chill my guy.
Its a fake story for sure. Someone with 2 millions in crypto for sure knows to secure the Private key offline. And its a must. There's no other way . no way someone buys a hardware wallet and doesnt write dow the Private key or seeds. ( Private keys are for such cases, you keep the offline and in safe place in case you lose your wallet or forget your password to recover our coins)
Did you try to go to the company that makes the Trzor devices to open it up .. Just asking
Woah I love his thought process when it comes to problem solving and that desk setup is the stuff dreams are made of
*HACKERVIPER50* *Saying thank you will never be enough to show my gratitude towards you sir*
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Sounds like you are all broke, now you're trying to scam teenagers on KZhead...
8:03 why would you want it to erase? are you meant to store multiple copies? is that a thing?
this is incredible man. I loved every minute of this journey.
Seeing a reset glitch hack on a hardware wallet makes me appreciate my roots. This method similar in so many ways to the reset glitch hack used on Xbox 360's. Amazing work, dude. This story will be told to almost every one I know.
👍😁
Was thinking the same thing with the RGH and Xecuter trying to keep up with Microsoft’s revisions to the slim consoles
This is like one of the best video's ive ever seen on youtube. Congrats on succesfully hacking the device! Keep up the good work!
*HACKERVIPER50* *Saying thank you will never be enough to show my gratitude towards you sir*
Did you charge him a flat rate or did he mane it worth you while ?