What might these non-financial motivations be? The attacker might want to expose something, they might want to deny your money to you, or they might want to use your funds as a tool to get something else. We can't always know their motivations. (2/9)

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#SmartCustody Adversary — Non-Financially Motivated Attackers

The most far-flung crime in my list of adversaries is likely the NON-FINANCIALLY MOTIVATED ATTACKERS: people who are denying you access to your cryptocurrency even though they don't care about the money. (1/9)

6/26/2020, 10:32:53 AM

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What might these non-financial motivations be? The attacker might want to expose something, they might want to deny your money to you, or they might want to use your funds as a tool to get something else. We can't always know their motivations. (2/9)

6/26/2020, 10:32:55 AM

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But here's how we try and summarize it: "I don't care about your money, but I’ll still going to mess with you. ... The key is: I know who you are, I know what you have, and I want to use that knowledge as a lever for my own purposes." (3/9)

6/26/2020, 10:32:56 AM

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The creators of Malware are prime examples of non-financially motivated attackers. They just want to demonstrate their power. They want to break stuff! (4/9)

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An attacker of the Parity wallet said that his attack was accidental, caused by curiosity. Was it? We don't know. (5/9) https://medium.com/chain-cloud-company-blog/parity-multisig-hack-again-b46771eaa838

6/26/2020, 10:32:57 AM

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The goal of leveraging #SmartCustody adversaries is to understand their motives so that we can both assess and avoid them. Yet that's really hard to do with NON-FINANCIALLY MOTIVATED ATTACKERS. (6/9)

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So how do you protect your digital assets against NON-FINANCIALLY MOTIVATED ATTACKERS? The key is their focus is denial of access, not theft. So where are the places, short of theft, that they can lock you out or delay you? Establish redundancies and alternative paths. (7/9)

6/26/2020, 10:32:58 AM

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Most NON-FINANCIALLY MOTIVATED ATTACKERS are directly targeting you. This requires you to have good digital hygeine. Protect your not only your keys, but also protect your identity and your other credentials. Make it hard for anyone to identify you and deny you access. (8/9)

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Have your own stories of non-financial motivations impacting digital assets? Your own solutions? Let us know! And please consider supporting #SmartCustody. We're working on V2, with multi-sigs and other expansions: https://smartcustody.btcpay.blockchaincommons.com/ (9/9)

6/26/2020, 10:32:59 AM

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